Associate Director Neighbourhood Health in Birmingham

Overview

Do you have the strategic leadership skills to shape and deliver neighbourhood health at scale?

This is a rare opportunity to join NHS Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Cluster ICB as Associate Director Neighbourhood Health.

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Officer Care Integration, you will play a key role in delivering the NHS Long Term Plan, driving integrated, neighbourhood and place‑based care to improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and maximise system resources.

You will work with ICB colleagues, local authorities, providers, VCSE partners and citizens to lead our commissioning strategy for neighbourhood health.

You will focus on advancing health equity, strengthening neighbourhood health, building partnerships and maintaining financial discipline and productivity.

You will operate confidently in complex environments, influencing across organisational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Defining, in conjunction with appropriate stakeholders, the neighbourhoods to be served.
• Ensuring neighbourhood health plans are developed that reflect Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies.
• Ensuring that strategic neighbourhood health plans are designed to deliver agreed health and care outcomes, including those set out in Better Care Fund Plans.
• Ensuring that operational neighbourhood health plans are fit for purpose and support the delivery of strategic neighbourhood health plans.
• Ensuring a consistent approach to the development of the 6 components of neighbourhood health across the Cluster.
• Working with the Associate Director – Integrated Care to ensure neighbourhood health programmes are aligned to agreed integrated care models.
• Developing a programme for the roll out of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams across the Cluster.
• Working with the Director of Health Improvement to enable neighbourhood health programmes to be supported by appropriate population analytics and population health management tools.
• Working with the Director of Primary Care and First Response to support the consistent implementation of Modern General Practice and facilitate the effective participation of primary care in the Integrated Neighbourhood Team Programme.
• Developing a programme for the optimisation of community services that is evidence‑based.
• Utilising appropriate contractual frameworks and levers to support the neighbourhood health programme.

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent level qualification, or significant demonstrable experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
• Membership of a relevant professional body.
• Evidence of continued professional development, programme or project management training or equivalent experience.
• A broad range of extensive knowledge in more than one specialist area, acquired through postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience, plus further specialist knowledge or experience.
• Significant experience of delivery as a senior NHS manager.
• Significant experience of application of commissioning competencies across the commissioning cycle to deliver achievements in outcomes and services for the portfolio.
• Proven successful experience of working with clinical and managerial colleagues across and within organisations.
• Staff line management experience and wider coordination of a team (e. g. through matrix working).
• Excellent understanding of strategic NHS and social care issues, priorities, service developments and implications.
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
• An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and the local operating framework for the system/cluster.
• Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times.
• Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective.
• High-level analytical skills and the ability to draw data from a wide range of sources and present this in a clear and concise manner.
• High-level critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
• Strong ability to build, nurture and maintain relationships with internal and external partners which are critical in securing strategic objectives.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the workforce effectively and with clarity.
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Ability to influence others whilst also acknowledging individual contributions.
• Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
• Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations, with the aim of improving deliverables.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas.
• Adaptability, flexibility and willingness to challenge yourself.
• Ability to lead, empower and motivate colleagues and stakeholders.
• Openness and honesty.
• Respectful of others with the ability to listen and provide feedback constructively, acknowledging individual contributions.
• An effective team player.
• Caring and considerate in all environments.
• Professionalism.
• Determination, perseverance and resilience.
• About the Cluster

Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care System bring together the NHS, councils and voluntary sector to serve 2.7million people.

Our vision is to be the healthiest place to live and work, improving life chances and reducing inequalities.

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