Clinical Senate Chair inCambridge inCambridge PUBLISHED WED 23 OCT 2024

As the Clinical Senate Chair, the post holder will lead the strategic and operational development and delivery of coherent and effective senate arrangements in a given geographical area, ensuring activities are aligned to and support commissioners in achieving outcome ambitions for patients and benefits to population health.

The postholder will have overall responsibility for clinical leadership, engagement and influence in Senate activities. Key aspects of this role will be:o To provide overarching professional and clinical leadership of the Clinical Senate in the defined areao To provide strategic clinical advice to constituent commissioning organisations across the totality of health and social careo To communicate the role and added value of the Clinical Senate ensuring advice and input is fed into the commissioning process.o To provide leadership for improving and safeguarding quality

The post holder will be professionally accountable to the Regional Medical Director. The post holder will work alongside the Head of Clinical Senate and AHSN.

oOperate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and engage proactively with stakeholders.oCommunicate effectively, building good working relationships, providing information and advice to a wide range of internal and external stakeholdersoLead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.oDrive and challenge each key working relationship to innovate and to achieve agreed objectives.oProvide and receive highly complex, sensitive and potentially contentious information, presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings.oManage situations with staff and stakeholders within change programmes for successful outcomes, often dealing with complex and conflicting issues with staff and stakeholders.oEmploy effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of projects/programmes.oRepresent the Region in sensitive and political situations, delivering difficult messages where required to high-level audiences.oChair Clinical Senate expert panels or recruit appropriate clinicians to chair these panels.oTo lead the Clinical Senate Council and engage with the wider Clinical Senate Assembly which supports it, to ensure broad and effective involvement of current and developing clinical leaders and experts across the wider health and care system.

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Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.