PCN Digital and Transformation Lead - Birmingham - ref. w16213415
NHS Jobs Birmingham
Business and Service improvements responsibilities The core objective of the PCN Digital and Transformation Lead role is to support the PCN and its practices to deliver ongoing improvement to services. The role will require experience in business and service improvement with expertise in transformational change and a good understanding of general practice systems and processes, including broad familiarity with general practice digital systems and how they can be used to deliver improvement.
This expertise will be used to: Work alongside practices to understand current challenges to effective service delivery and identify solutions, including existing best practice within the PCN. Drive the planning and prioritisation of changes that will improve delivery of care and improve patient and staff experience in the practices within the PCN.Ensure all change is ultimately focussed on improving services for patients. Build relationships across the PCN to develop consensus for improvements and to ensure business and clinical staff are fully engaged throughout the process of selection, implementation and deployment of change.
Develop and manage an overall transformation plan for the PCN, including identifying interdependencies, managing risks, considering the potential impacts on the wider organisation, and determining resource requirements. Link with our Locality Groups and ICS and other partners to gain buy-in for transformation and to support alignment with broader strategy and improvement approaches.
Provide hands-on capacity and support to practices in implementing and sustaining agreed changes. Support staff to identify and participate in relevant training and or professional development opportunities that will support achievement of agreed improvements.
Support practices and staff to effectively use existing and new technology systems and products to enable improvement. Use PPM and improvement techniques to focus on delivery of changes and analysis of their impacts, providing feedback to staff on both positive and negative impacts of changes made.
Advise on innovative opportunities and support practices to maximise benefits from innovation, through the sharing of learning and best practice. Develop and implement mechanisms for assessing the impact of agreed changes. Provide feedback to PCN leadership and to member practices on progress of current initiatives, capacity for change, progress and issues so that plans can be adapted in response.
Information and data management The post holder will need to have skills in relation to understanding and using data to drive improvement and assess impacts. These skills will be used to: Take a data driven approach, looking at evidence and information available to support understanding of challenges, identify possible solutions and track the impacts of changes that have been made.
Work in partnership with the PCN Practices and ICS to identify relevant data sets and to support standardisation in the use of measures for understanding change and improvement in general practice. Bring together data from a variety of sources and use information to develop insights into working practices, effectively tailoring content to meet the needs of the audience.
Effectively present and communicate data to practices and PCN staff at all levels to increase understanding of operational challenges. Interpret data and highlight variation to support open discussion about where variation is and is not warranted.
Help PCN and practice staff understand the limitations of particular data sets and where other information may be available to supplement understanding of issues. Support and encourage a focus on data in understanding the effectiveness of changes made.
Seek and secure analytical resource as required to support Practices in the PCN in developing and implementing appropriate data and information sharing mechanisms. Use data to track and assess impact of changes made to operational processes, and to track trends and developments over time.
Communication and Engagement With responsibility for developing and supporting delivery of transformational projects across the PCN, the post holder will require expertise in communications and engagement, and specifically in bringing people together and gaining support and buy-in to change.
This expertise will be used to: Build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including with the ICS. Initiate and participate in development of effective systems of communication and co-operation between member practices, staff, and other members of the primary care team.
Ensure that changes are aligned with agreed clinical priorities and have ownership and engagement from clinical leaders and staff. Support practices to communicate changes and new processes effectively and consistently to patients. Identify best practice and learning from other areas that could be applicable to the local PCN and communicate this to staff.
Make connections across the PCN to support learning between practices and sharing of best practice. Make connections with the ICS and other service delivery organisations to plan and deliver changes that will improve working between general practices and other primary care and non-primary care services.
Lead or participate in relevant working groups, project groups, service meetings and other forums across the PCN Practices, Locality Groups and ICS to agree changes, share learning, discuss challenges, and resolves issues. Policy and Service Development With responsibility for supporting the PCN to identify and make progress with transformational change, the post holder will have expertise in understanding and interpreting national and system-wide policy developments and initiatives to local circumstances and contexts.
This expertise will be used to: Maintain a good knowledge of key policies from the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and other relevant government departments and agencies, and support PCN staff to understand and interpret these locally.Act in the capacity of Information Governance Lead for Hall Green Health and PCN Practices. Work with the local ICS to support the development of overall primary care transformation strategies, including digital transformation strategies, and their delivery.
Support the PCN and member practices to adapt and apply specific policies and initiatives to local needs and to prioritise initiatives based on local requirements. Equality and Diversity The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues, to include: Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation. Identify patterns of discrimination and take action to overcome this and promote diversity and equality of opportunity.
Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights. Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights.
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