Clinical Lead - Secondary Care in Sunderland

A unique opportunity has arisen for a consultant role working as clinical lead with expertise in a secondary care acute setting. Working in the largest Integrated Care System in the country, serving a population of approximately 3.2m across the North East and North Cumbria. We are seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to join our clinical team. At the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we are committed to providing high-quality care and support to our community.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The core focus of this job is to provide senior clinical leadership to help the Integrated Care Board improve planned and unplanned services, outcomes, and fairness across the health system. The post holder will be a visionary and transformational leader who will shape and improve care pathways across secondary health services, supporting strategic commissioning and service redesign. Also using data, evidence, and clinical judgement to improve quality and reduce variation, working collaboratively with clinicians, partners, patients, and the public. Ensuring services are equitable, sustainable, and resilient.

About us

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country. The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, and reducing health inequalities. With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and well-being boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers. The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.

Job responsibilities

• Foster a culture of clinical engagement and develop evidence-based pathways.
• Maintain effective clinical networks and provide advice to local partnerships.
• Lead the development of local pathways across primary, secondary, and mental health care.
• Promote innovation and resilience in neighbourhood clinical teams.
• Support the Medical Director with clinical priorities and education.
• Engage with professional bodies and support patient and public involvement.

Qualifications

• Medically qualified and registered with the GMC.
• Clinically practising as a secondary care consultant.
• Clinically practising in a consultant role in the NENC ICs.
• Post Graduate Professional Membership.

Experience

• Experience of working at a very senior level as a clinical leader in more than one setting.
• Experience of delivering and driving positive outcomes for patients.
• Demonstrable experience of leading successful pathway redesign and implementation of new clinical pathways with effective local ownership, engagement.
• Senior experience, with a significant contribution to strategy across a range of areas.
• Relevant senior level management experience in a variety of health and/or social care settings with evidence of effective partnership working.
• Experience of working in joint or integrated arrangements.
• Experience of working in partnership forums.
• Experience in contributing to delivery of vision/strategy in a multi-organisational setting through re-design and transformation projects.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.