Clinical Lead – Place
On 1 July 2022, NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) was established. The ICB is part of North Central London Integrated Care System (ICS). The ICS is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of ICSs:- to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
- tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- enhance productivity and value for money
- help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
North Central London’s population is incredibly diverse, and continues to grow and change. This brings pressure and challenges for the local health and care services that NCL ICB commissions – or buys – on behalf of residents. NCL ICB works closely with Councils, providers, general practices, voluntary, community organisations, and unions, to achieve our shared aims.
NCL ICB values our staff, our partners and their expertise to deliver the best health and care possible for the patients and residents of North Central London.
We are committed to recruiting a workforce which is reflective of our diverse population, where individual contributions are encouraged and valued. We welcome and encourage applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, sex or gender identity, religious beliefs, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, caring status or neurodiversity.
Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the clinical and care leadership team within NCL ICB and to drive better, more joined up health and care within boroughs and neighbourhoods.
These are clinical leadership roles that reflect the need for borough-based clinical and care expertise around, and support to, transformation across Barnet and Camden with portfolios organised around life-courses: Start Well, Live Well and Age Well. We are looking to fill two Clinical Lead roles, on a secondment basis, up to 20 September 2025, within Camden and Barnet, as follows:
Camden, Live Well – 2 sessions per week
Barnet, Age Well – 2 sessions per week
Each session is 3.5 hours, and the expectation is that successful candidates will be able to commit to working these sessions across one or two days, consecutively.
Clinical leads will support local delivery in line with ICB priorities and the strengthening of local clinical and professional collaboration as we continue to develop as an ICS. Postholders will be key members of borough-based teams and will report into the borough Clinical Director and Director of Place.
Working closely with clinical and officer colleagues, postholders will be a key player in building partnerships and collaborating with providers, public health, local authority, other partners (e.g. voluntary sector) and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes, and reductions in health inequality.
Interviews will be held in January 2025
Main duties of the job
The clinical leads will provide specialist input to borough partnership priorities. As well as inspiring and motivating clinical colleagues to effect change, they will initiate, oversee and directly participate in transformational work linked to Start Well, Live Well and Age Well.
We are seeking individuals with deep knowledge and understanding of the health challenges and priorities faced across NCL boroughs, an understanding of local communities and the local health and care landscape. You will be passionate about, and have experience of, systems leadership, quality improvement, and delivering through collaboration.
Working for our organisation
On 1 July 2022, NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) was established. NCL ICB is part of North Central London Integrated Care System (ICS). The ICS is a partnership of organisations that have come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of ICSs:
- Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development
We have created a model of clinical and care professional leadership to deliver this commitment and are recruiting to several roles to set us out on our journey.
If you share our values and ambitions for people living in North Central London and have the skills and experience to drive our Clinical Leadership portfolio forward, then we would be delighted to receive your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
At a high level, Clinical Lead: Place activities are likely to include:
- Leading the development and delivery of local population health improvement initiatives
- Promoting and facilitating pathway improvement and redesign, while removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within boroughs
- Supporting oversight and management of service quality at place level, by sharing intelligence and working with partners (including regulators) to improve quality of care and outcomes, helping to ensure risks are identified and managed effectively
- Supporting the clinical commissioning cycle including scoping improvement, building a coalition to deliver, working with partners to implement and embed change, evaluating impact
- Ensuring effective joint-working across e.g. the primary and secondary care interface
- Working to improve and promote access, and champion inclusion for hard-to-reach communities
- Providing expert advice and guidance to borough partnership and, where applicable, related partner ambitions
- Offering system-side clinical perspective and support for urgent responses to local operational challenges e.g. winter preparedness, strikes, asylum seeker arrival, disease outbreaks
- Contributing to the GP website, championing its use, and ensuring frontline clinicians make fullest use of this tool
- Building vibrant local communities of clinical practice linking leaders and operators from Trusts, primary care networks, GP federations, and other partners.
- Deputising where needed for the Clinical Director
You will be a registered clinician with a professional body such as NMC, GMC, GPC or other professional body.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria- Clinical/care professional qualification educated to Masters degree level or equivalent.
- Current registration with the relevant professional body.
- Evidence of ongoing post-registration education and training.
Experience
Essential criteria- Practising clinician with relevant clinical/ care professional experience, with the ability to lead, motivate and work collegiately
- Experience of participating in complex professional meetings in a collaborative, efficient and effective manner
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Essential criteria- Effective leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and borough levels.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload and conflicting demands to meet tight deadlines.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.
Applicants who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our role profile requirements will be shortlisted for interview. To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances please ensure you quote your application reference number.
Please ensure you check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you. Invitations for interview are sent by email only, so it is important that you monitor your emails once you have submitted an application online.If you have not heard from us within a month of the closing date you should presume that you have not been shortlisted.
If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within the organisation.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. Depending on the role a Criminal Records check may be required, all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case-by-case basis.