Description
NHS North East London (NHS NEL) is recruiting a Clinical Director for Population Health at a critical time for developing population health management in North East London.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership, support, and guidance to the NHS NEL's Chief Clinical and Quality Commissioning Officer.
The role is primarily focused on supporting the Chief Clinical and Quality Commissioning Officer to further develop and implement improvement and transformation across NHS NEL, ensuring robust clinical consultation and engagement.
The successful candidate will be an experienced and embedded senior clinical leader with an existing profile in population health at system level.
Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical leadership, support, and guidance to the Chief Clinical and Quality Commissioning Officer
- Support and work closely with senior colleagues within NHS NEL, assuming SRO/Chairing responsibilities for some key programmes and committees
- Develop and implement improvement and transformation across NHS NEL, ensuring robust clinical consultation and engagement
Person specification:
- Registered Clinical practitioner with current valid registration with the relevant regulatory body (GMC, NMC, HCPC etc.)
- Experience and evidence of clinical leadership at very senior and system level, including currently operating at senior management level
- Experience of managing and delivering large-scale projects, including managing a related, substantial budget
- Significant experience of working in a clinical commissioning role and experience of working with senior colleagues to deliver commissioning plans
- Experience in design and delivery of large-scale pathway transformation programmes
- Experience of working with regional and national NHS colleagues
Knowledge and skills:
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex, sensitive, or contentious matters in difficult situations and influence colleagues
- High-level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear, concise manner
- Detailed knowledge of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in London and appreciation of the implications