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About UsThe Confederation, Hillingdon CIC works with General Practice and other healthcare providers to deliver its vision for “Hillingdon to deliver the best primary care outcomes for patients in the whole of London”. We are a not-for-profit community interest company. The Confederation works to develop and support individual GP practices, PCNs and Neighbourhoods and their changing needs. We deliver excellent clinical services ourselves both at scale and complementary to General Practice. We are the provider representative voice for local General Practice into the wider NHS and other Partners. We are ‘of the NHS’ but independent, innovative and transformational.The Confederation determines to develop as an attractive place to work, providing rewarding roles and opportunities to grow in order to attract and retain great staff that in turn delivers our vision.Our ValuesBackground and ContextThe Child Health Hub model has been running in NWL for a number of years now, starting with Connecting Care for Children and is now featured in the national Neighbourhood Health Framework with an expectation that all Children have access to a model like the Child Health Hub developed in NWL by 2028.With the changes to the ICBs and the reduction in the borough team model and the expansion of coverage of the ICB and its changing role to becoming a Strategic Commissioner, it is more critical that providers work together to lead any transformation.The NWL Training Hub, hosted by The Confederation Hillingdon CIC, has been asked to host a Clinical Lead from general practice and a Programme Lead to support the clinical leadership working across NWL to continue to mobilise, embed, adapt and evaluate the model of Child Health Hubs across NWL. This will inform the development of the Neighbourhood Model of Care for Children and Young People.Job SummaryThe post holder will play a key role in providing clinical leadership for Child Health Hubs across NWL with an aim to work with NCL colleagues over the year to champion the model. The post holder will be key in providing clinical insight into transformation and development of the Child Health Hub programme, working closely with colleagues across W&NL and providers.SkillsAs we look to plan our future workforce, we have recognised that all our staff will need the following skills and attributes:A passionate commitment to delivering the best possible healthcare services for our residents and communities.Strong partnership working skills and teamwork ethic, including the ability to role model and deliver collaborative working to achieve a common goal – this involves influencing, sharing ideas and workloads and supporting cooperation between teams, departments and partner organisations. Deep knowledge in your own area of workHigh levels of competency in specific skills dependent on your role e.g. strong people leadership and management skills; strategic, analytical and modelling skills; strong communication skills (both written and verbal); ability to work seamlessly with people at all levels across the system.A strong focus on continuous improvement.A confident, ‘can do’ approachOverall Purpose of the RoleThe role will work with colleagues across NWL to embed, develop, enhance, improve and evaluate the model of Child Health Hubs.Work with all providers to support a quality improvement approach to transformation, ensuring the voice of children and young people is at the heart of the improvement plan for neighbourhood health, using the model of Child Health HubsThe post holder will take a key leadership role in the evaluation of the model working with BI leads, academic partners and clinical leadership across NWL.The post holder will facilitate the Community of Practice for Child Health Hubs to support the diffusion of learning across the system.The post holder will work closely with the training hub to support development of the training needs analysis CYP neighbourhood working and then implementation of training in response to the training needs identified. Champion the case finding and population health approach in child health hubs.Work closely with partner organisations, including third sector agencies, to improve pathway interfaces with primary care as requiredHave a flexible approach when dealing with multidisciplinary teams; able to identify a range of solutions Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information.Ensure the patient voice and patient experience is at the heart of decision making.Key ResponsibilitiesProviding primary care leadership for the Children’s Neighbourhood model of careFacilitate the Community of Practice for the Child Health Hubs across NWL.Be a core member of the Child health Hubs Leadership team influencing and leading certain elements of the development of the model of care.Bring together the right people to take forward the evaluation of the Child Health Hubs model of Care in order to secure ongoing support and funding where requiredWork closely with NCL colleagues to support and influence the expansion of the model of care, sharing the learning from NWL.Advocate for the alignment and join up of the various children’s reforms agendas with local transformation, such as SEND reforms, Families First partnership, Best Start in Life with Child Health Hubs.Take a leadership role in championing the focus on Babies, Children and Young People in the emerging Neighbourhood Model of Care and ‘left shift’ transformation.AnalyticalAwareness of risks to the programme and ensure that escalation processes are followed.Provide coordination of and lead relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information.Communications and EngagementSupport co-production as a way of working ensuring the key aspects of the workstream are developed with service users and experts by experience.Maintain clear and effective lines of communication at all levels with stakeholders.Be able to work effectively with service users, GP Practices, NHS providers as well as non-NHS providers.Interface with clinical leads in the other programmes for example: children and young people, elective, urgent and emergency care, diagnostics.Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to the borough and programme teams, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff.Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters.Work with key stakeholders to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.Represent and champion the Child Health Hub programme at various local, regional or other meetings as required.QualityEnsure quality, outcomes and experience for babies, children and young people are central to all delivery decisions.Work with clinical and analytical colleagues to define, monitor and act on quality and outcome measures for Child Health Hubs.Support evaluation and evidence based decision making to demonstrate impact and inform sustainability.Equality, Diversity and InclusionEmbed equity, inclusion and anti inequality principles throughout programme delivery.Support approaches to co production and engagement with diverse communities, ensuring the Child Health Hub model responds to local needs.Consider the impact of delivery decisions on health inequalities and protected groups, in line with statutory duties.Key Working RelationshipsRelevant/interfacing West and North London ICB Clinical leads (for example, for mental health, children and young people, etc)Regular communications with GP Practices across NWLBusiness Intelligence TeamPublic Health LeadsCommunications and Involvement teamSafeguarding TeamsOperational and clinical leads within one or more provider Trusts and provider collaborative(s)Primary Care professionalsPCN Clinical Directors and their TeamsLocal authority partners including Director of Public, Adult Social Care and Children’s ServicesNHS England and any other regulatory/scrutiny bodiesImperial College Health PartnersGroups representing patients, service users, carers and residentsCitizens and their carersHealthwatch Education providersVoluntary and Community SectorLocal Medical CommitteePerson SpecificationEssential CriteriaPracticing primary care clinician in the borough with at least 2 sessions a month at a practice or PCN in the borough. (Current or past practice within the last 4 years)Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and revalidation MRCGP or equivalent clinical qualificationEvidence of a license to practiceSatisfactory Appraisal within the last 12 months or within the most recent 12 months of work, (if currently on a career break)Relevant clinical experience in primary care and leadership.Experience of building productive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working creatively toward shared goals.Experience of reducing unwarranted clinical variation and the ability to foster quality improvement within clinical practice.Evidence of planning and delivering of transformation change to deliver agreed objectivesDemonstrate an ability to lead and motivate individuals and teams.Good working knowledge of professional requirementsAwareness and understanding of the healthcare landscape in North West London and your borough.Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload and conflicting demands to meet tight deadlines.Demonstrable leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others.Ability to foster quality improvement within clinical practice.Judgement: having the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities.Demonstrate an understanding of quality assurance activity.Demonstrate the ability to hold to account clinical colleagues.Ability to ensure robust governance processes are agreed and in place for projects.Flexibility and willingness to travel within the borough and NWL area to provide widespread support to continuously develop the programmes of work.Desirable CriteriaClinical leadership qualificationExperience of project work focusing on benefits realisation and supporting transformational change.Experience in liaising with NHS trusts, community organisations, medical schools and other partners and providers in leadership roles.Experience of clinical and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team.Good working knowledge of educational support in primary care training, and health systems.Understanding of national, regional and local primary care workforce transformation programmes.Excellent analytical skills.Project management and change management.Ability to produce structured work, strong presentations and deliverables.
