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As a senior member of the Integrated Care Board (ICB), the Assistant Director will be responsible for strategy implementation, policy development, and managing a team while maintaining strong partnerships within the healthcare system. They will also monitor the progress of strategic initiatives and ensure the delivery of key programs within set timelines. This role requires flexibility to work across different teams to meet business needs, with objectives subject to regular review to align with organisational priorities.
NHS Devon is looking to appoint an Assistant Director of Women & Children's who will provide clinical, professional and managerial leadership to the team responsible for commissioning women and children's services across Devon. The team works to secure the best possible outcomes for patients with a strong focus on improving and maintaining Quality Improvement, integration, and innovation. The post holder will ensure that the ICB exercises its functions effectively, economically, with good governance and in accordance with the terms of the NHS constitution.
The individual will be a clinical registrant with substantial exposure in senior leadership roles and they will undertake professional responsibility for driving improvements, provide strategic and operational leadership within the following commissioning workstreams:
- Community
- Mental Health
- Learning Disability and Autism
- Paediatrics
- Maternity and Women's Health
- Lead commissioner for Child & Family Health Devon and Livewell Southwest children's contracts
As a member of the senior ICB team, they will personally create the conditions for effective positive, working relationships between the ICB, providers and provider collaboratives, and our three Local Authorities, as well as a range of voluntary sector organisations in Devon. They will be required to deputise for Director of W&C Services, and W&C Improvement and ensure collaborative working within the Chief Nursing Officer and all other ICB directorates.
The post holder will work with senior leaders to deliver strategic and operational plans working in a collaborative and robust way with partner organisations. They will engage and build relationships with system partners to ensure a true system approach to production and delivery of plans. For this area, this means dealing with providers, our three district councils, volunteer groups, and a range of NHS organisations in Devon. In addition, the post holder will:
- monitor and establish accountability on the overall progress of strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales including delivery of STP wide agreed priority programme within their team;
- be responsible for managing and leading a team;
- develop effective strategy and operational policies for promoting innovation and commissioning of quality services across Devon including manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholder.
The post holder will also be responsible to the Director of Women and Childrens and will act as their deputy where appropriate.
As part of this role, there will be a requirement to work in a matrix and flexible way across multiple areas/teams to support business needs. The objectives of the role will be regularly reviewed to align to organisational priorities.
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Please see the attached Job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Where the post is a temporary position there may be a possibility of the post becoming permanent.
All posts can be considered as development opportunities if applicants do not meet the essential criteria at the time of appointment but would be able to meet this in a reasonable time frame.
Vacancies may close early if a high volume of applications are received.
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