LCOs Population Health Management Strategic Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership and management for population health improvement across the two LCOs.

Work in partnership with the Clinical and non clinical Locality Leads and the Locality Assistant Directors and MD in Trafford, to ensure a complementary read across Locality services.

Liaise with primary care leadership across the neighbourhoods in the locality and with other partners in the locality.

Working with the INT and GP neighbourhood leads, support the neighbourhoods to develop and deliver neighbourhood PHM plans by working with LCO colleagues and wider stakeholders including local residents, councillors and community groups as well as health and social care partners and ensuring the plan is representative of the neighbourhood and aligned to LCOs strategic goals and Outcomes Framework.

As part of the planning process, support the adoption of PHM as a system way of working with a clear focus on health inequalities.

Work within LCOs Accountability Framework at neighbourhood and locality level.

Support leadership arrangements including the PHM Board in Manchester

Support evolving governance arrangements in Trafford.

Person Specification

Further Training

• Demonstrate through CPD and various other training courses an up-to-date knowledge of primary care and community services and evidence to continuous personal and professional development in current role
• Change management skills
• Programme and project management skills.

Qualifications: Academic / Professional Experience

• First Degree / Professional Qualification
• Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
• Significant senior level experience in population health management

Knowledge

• Knowledge and Understanding of clinical and corporate governance agendas
• Knowledge and Understanding of governance issues arising from recent investigations into health services
• Knowledge and Understanding of the Business planning process and its application in service delivery
• Understanding of primary care framework and strategic vision for neighbourhoods in Manchester and Trafford.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of designing and implementing population health management approaches and improvement methodologies in community services and Primary Care Networks.

• Understanding of the wider Greater Manchester strategic context for health and social care and wider public service reform.

Skills and Abilities - Communication and Relationships

• Skilled in preparing, and receiving highly complex sensitive and contentious information, negotiating with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Able to work and successfully operate in a politically sensitive environment.
• Strong persuasion and influencing skills - able to present ideas and proposals effectively.
• Strong interpersonal skills and personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of and build relationships with others, including senior stakeholders, managers, clinicians and staff.
• Able to develop effective networks, and work in partnership with others to deliver and improve services.
• Able to communicate effectively, demonstrating sensitivity / understanding to a wide range of different people / organisations.
• Able to resolve conflict in an effective but non-aggressive manner.

Skills and Abilities - Leadership

• Highly developed strategic leadership skills with the ability to motivate and build effective teams / inspire others including the ability to involve staff and partnership organisations to meet challenging targets and to work with senior and executive leadership.
• Involves others in problem analysis and the identification of solutions, where possible enabling individuals or teams to find their own solutions.
• Promotes the building of effective teams and collaboration between teams.
• Facilitates transformation and change to improve services and outcomes.
• Influences and motivates staff to deliver challenging targets

Skills and Abilities - Information Management and IT

• Well-developed IT skills to manage/ manipulate performance management information and develop meaningful performance reports from this.
• Understanding of IT systems and appreciation of their application and management in order to ensure effective PHM strategic and operational delivery.
• Critically analyse and interpret complex management and patient information and data sets and make recommendations to others.
• Using analytical and decision making skills, demonstrates ability to explore, evaluate and interpret complex information and options and make decisions and recommendations based on an effective analysis of options.
• Able to analyse and translate complex information to input into strategic plans for the two LCOs.

Skills and Abilities - Management

• Deals effectively with challenging and or sensitive staff issues within appropriate organisation/ legislative processes.
• Uses a range of management styles as appropriate.
• Able to work in complex and inter-connected environments and work in a matrix way across portfolios.
• Ability to delegate and work through others.
• Achievement focused - ability to set targets and get things done to achieve continuous improvement

Experience

• Credible strategic leader, with an ability to drive change
• Well connected with proven experience of developing PHM approaches, ensuring the patient and citizen voice is clear in programme delivery
• Working and respected within the neighbourhoods and the localities (Manchester and Trafford).
• Experience at senior managerial level within health/ social care delivery including responsibility for strategic planning and large programme delivery.
• Experience of working in primary care with Practices, PCNs and GPs.
• Experience of working with individuals and teams across strategic, organisational and professional boundaries to achieve common goals.
• Preparing and presenting reports for consideration at senior meetings.
• Incorporating patient / user views into the provision of services.
• Demonstrable success in delivering change and improvements in performance with and through clinical and non-clinical teams. Leading service re-design.
• Leading service re-design.
• Developing teams and others.

Skills and Abilities - Decision Making

• Prioritises and quickly identifies the core issues in a situation, and develops a solution.
• Makes sound decisions using all available evidence, and evaluates their impact.
• Ensures patient safety by assessing and managing risk associated with service developments.

Personal Attributes

• Outcome focused
• Collaborative and inclusive
• Strategic and strengths based
• A change agent with an ability to drive change to deliver our vision for PHM.
• Able to build connections, influence approaches and be a leader across the LCOs and wider Locality partners.
• Committed to quality and promoting high standards of care.
• Committed to continuous development of self and others.

Values and Behaviours

• Embody and promote MLCO and TLCO goals & principles (values) and behaviours.
• Patient/ Service User focused.
• Maintains service user focus and personal integrity whilst achieving results across a broad range of outcomes.
• Openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation, uses constructive criticism positively.
• Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision, a can do attitude, able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities against competing agendas.
• Displays strong motivation and commitment to success.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Manchester Town Hall Extension

Manchester

M60 2LA

https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/