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Job overview

NHS England has published Commissioning Guides for some of the specialties in dentistry. The intention of the Guides is to encourage improved patient experience in receiving dental care across all aspects of dentistry in primary, salaried, secondary and tertiary care.

The comprehensive integration of these services require establishment of Managed Clinical Networks (MCN) for each of the specialties that will link clinicians across all settings to provide patient-centred care throughout the clinical pathway including improving clinical effectiveness, equity of access, efficiency and parity of outcome.

It will be the responsibility of the Chair of each MCN to oversee the functioning of such in line with the Terms of Reference published by NHS England. This will require close communication with identified clinicians from all aspects of dentistry who have successfully applied and been appointed to the network.

Ultimately, the role of the MCNs, through the leadership of the Chairs, will be to ensure high quality patient care in an equitable manner across the country.

It should be appreciated that time commitments are likely to be greater in the early months during establishment of each MCN. This would need to be negotiated as required by local circumstances. Time commitments are to be reviewed and renewed on a regular basis.

Main duties of the job

• Establish and maintain an effective MCN involving all appropriate stakeholders
• Create and foster a culture of clinical engagement across the MCN
• Demonstrate clinical leadership that is central to the delivery of all commissioning activities
• Maintain the engagement of all members of the MCN in developing and implementing evidence-based pathways
• Establish effective collaborative working to ensure the Network meets local and national priorities and action plans
• Maintain effective communication with the Local Dental Network (LDN)
• Report regularly to the Local Dental Network on progress in respect of agreed workplans
• Share information, such as the establishment of improved care and pathways, with other MCNs both locally and nationally
• Ensure that each MCN member engages with a robust appraisal system specifically designed for members of the MCN that is in place through collaboration with NHSE Workforce, Training and Education
• Ensure that good managerial practice is maintained in the running of the MCN, such as management of conflicts of interest, development of a Terms of Reference, the organisation of regular meetings, setting of agendas and release of minutes of meetings
• To adhere to the relevant professional codes of conduct
• Provide direction and support to the MCN through effective management and leadership
• Appropriate support will be provided dependent upon the development needs of the individual chair.

Working for our organisation

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population. 

We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS’ priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan). 

The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.