Job summary
- Main area
- Ageing Well
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 161-NELICB-OC-0202-IS-C
- Employer
- NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North House
- Town
- Romford
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Ageing Well Manager
Band 8a
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.
We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.
We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.
We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.
Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.
Job overview
The post holder will lead work to deliver improved Ageing Well and wellbeing for the local population, and to reduce health inequalities, particularly those associated with Ageing Well. This role will be key to shifting the focus onto prevention and proactive care, but working alongside those who also provide more acute care.
The post holder will be a key member of a team to improve the health and wellbeing of the local people in Havering Place.
This post will also take responsibility and leadership of Ageing Well commissioning in the London Borough of Havering
The post holder will support the Havering Place Based Partnership, and be a subject matter expert in the delivery of a number of its core priorities and outcomes. The post holder will have good knowledge of their dedicated area, with a strong understanding of and experience in the commissioning cycle alongside advanced co-ordination, leadership, management, communication and interpersonal skills that enable them to promote and further the work of the partnership across a wide range of stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the Havering Place Partnership’s Age Well Team and hold a pivotal role in respect of Ageing Well and aligning both NHS and Local Authority work plans
The post holder will work at Place as well as across north east London, the provider Collaboratives, local government and with other Place Partnerships as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
North East London is steeped in history and culture, and home to over two million people (and rising). It’s the most diverse area of the UK; and because of that, one of the most exciting and vibrant places to work.
NHS North East London works with our health, social care, voluntary and community partners and residents) to plan and buy health services to meet our population’s needs, making sure all parts of the local health and care system work effectively together. We work as part of the North East London Integrated Care System northeastlondonhcp.nhs.uk
We make sure residents and visitors have the best physical and mental health and have good access to high-quality health and care services. We have a vision to “work with and for all the people of North East London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity.”
We serve eight local authority areas: Barking and Dagenham; City of London; Hackney; Havering; Newham; Redbridge; Tower Hamlets; and Waltham Forest.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached JD and PS for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
The post holder will:
- work within the Mutual Accountability Framework to improve the health and wellbeing of local people in respect of key delivery outcomes for Ageing Well.
- Understand the needs and assets of their local population and lead within the Age Well team on the Ageing Well agenda adopting a strengths-based approach and considering the wider of determinants of health
- Involve local people, communities and wider stakeholders actively in identifying issues and challenges and in co-producing their own solutions within their area of Ageing Well.
- Contribute to the development and implementation, in line with the Place Based Partnership’s core outcomes and priorities and in line with relevant north east London strategies, of local delivery plans in their dedicated areas
- Understand the potential synergies, interfaces or tensions between partnership priorities and individual organisational priorities and actively work with those organisations to demonstrate the benefit of a partnership approach
- Have a good understanding of the different ways of working and cultures across the partner organisations and use a range of communication techniques to engage and negotiate with different partners
- Identify different ways of working and work with colleagues to support partnership working and co-design as appropriate
- Support partnership processes to be well aligned to the wider system approach, and be able to identify synergies, opportunities or potential conflicts with system-wide, collaborative or other place programmes.
- Be an advocate for the Place Based Partnership and be able to demonstrate the benefits of partnership working to a wide set of partners in both formal and informal settings, including at public meetings
- Produce and present written reports for a wide range of audiences including board level committees and politically sensitive settings, for example public overview and scrutiny committees.
- Be well informed and up to date on the agenda for Ageing Well including national, regional, sub-regional and locally generated policy and guidance
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Post Graduate level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to align plans with national and local policy and contribute to the design of organisational policies.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zakia khatun
- Job title
- CHC Commissioning and Transformation Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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