Strategic Clinical Director – Integrated & Population Health

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a collaborative and system-minded clinician to lead on the next phase of UCLH’s strategy for integrated and population health. This is a brand-new role, initially for 12 months, which will require an individual with exceptional leadership skills and significant expertise in partnership working and integrated health and care.

Following UCLH’s joint appointment alongside partner organisations as the integrator for Camden and Islington, strategic clinical leadership is required to help drive our emerging programmes of work on neighbourhood health and ‘left shift’. Working with colleagues within and outside UCLH, the Strategic Clinical Director will also take a leading role in shaping our Trust-wide integration and population health priorities, aligned with our refreshed organisational strategy.

If you are an experienced consultant working within UCLH or an experienced GP working within our wider system with a passion for working with partners to improve the health of our local population and ensure that the best care is delivered in the right place, we want to hear from you.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to a stakeholder panel, followed by a formal interview if successful at stakeholder stage. Preliminary dates for these are as follows:

Stakeholder panel:

11am – 1pm Wednesday 4 March

9am – 11am Friday 6 March

Interviews: 1.30 – 5pm Tuesday 10 March

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical leadership to UCLH’s neighbourhood health delivery programmes in Camden and Islington, as well as informing the Trust’s approach to strategic integration and ‘left shift’.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Strategy, the Strategic Clinical Director (SCD) is expected to ensure that the neighbourhood health programmes have patient safety, quality of care and clinical outcomes at their centre.

The SCD will be responsible for providing strategic clinical leadership and vision to enable the Trust to meet its objectives as an integrator organisation and anchor institution for our local poplation. Central to this role is effective relationship-building and communication with our key system partners and clinicians across NCL, to build a ‘coalition of the willing’.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Key responsibilities and results areas

The SCD is accountable to the Director of Strategy for:

• The effective clinical leadership, design and delivery of a neighbourhood health programme/service for Camden & Islington.
• The design and testing of new health and care pathways to support the delivery of neighbourhood health and left shift.
• Clinical governance of any workstreams/projects agreed as part of this programme (in conjunction with the operational leads for these service areas).
• The cultivation of strong working relationships across NCL with other system partners, including primary and secondary care (acute, mental health and community), Local Authorities, VCSE organisations and NCL ICB.
• The development of an informal ‘coalition’ of clinicians across NCL providers who are, or have ambitions to be, taking a more integrated approach to the delivery of health and care.
• Supporting the design and delivery of a strategic communications programme to increase awareness of existing and future integrated care and population health work at UCLH and beyond, particularly with UCLH staff.

Please note, due to anticipated high volumes of applications, this vacancy may close earlier than the listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application

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