Clinical Lead for Health Inequalities, PHM and Prevention

Could this exciting opportunity be for you?

Are you a visionary clinical leader committed to making sure our health and care services deliver fair outcomes for everyone?

Would you relish the opportunity to use your clinical leadership skills to transform how we embed prevention at scale across Dorset?

Could you work with colleagues across the health, care, voluntary and community sectors to contribute to tackling the root causes of ill health and the drivers of difference in access, experience and outcomes from health services?

This new role is an opportunity to join the senior clinical leadership of NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board. You will bring your clinical expertise, experience and commitment to deliver improved health outcomes for our population, making the most of opportunities for collaboration and linking across programmes, pathways, disciplines sectors and organisations.

If you have the passion, drive and vision to be our expert leader, contributing to and shaping our need to address prevention, reduce inequalities, unite colleagues across the system we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board is responsible for planning, allocating resources and providing system leadership to meet these four key aims and central to doing so is having senior experienced clinical leadership.

The Clinical Lead for Health Inequalities, Prevention and Population Health Management will be a key member of the senior clinical leadership team of the ICB and will have the following core responsibilities:

• Contribute senior clinical experience to the key programmes of work defined within your portfolio and aligned to ICB priorities.


• Work in close partnership with management and executive colleagues.


• Act as an ambassador for NHS Dorset and the wider ICS, including where appropriate, engaging with media and local stakeholders.


• Work collectively with other ICB Clinical Leads to ensure experienced multidisciplinary clinical input in all key programmes of work.


• Work closely with the Chief Medical Officer to provide clinical input into the ICB strategy and prioritisation.
  
  We are joining up to tackle all the things that affect our health and wellbeing, make real change, and improve things for our communities.


Dorset ICS is made up of:

• NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board


• University Hospitals Dorset Foundation Trust


• Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust


• Dorset HealthCare University Foundation Trust


• Dorset Council


• Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole Council


• 194 town and parish councils


• 18 primary care networks (made up of 73 GP practices)


• Southwestern Ambulance Service Foundation Trust


• Dorset Police


• Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service


• 7,300 voluntary organisations


What we do

The Health and Care Bill puts ICSs on a statutory footing empowering them to better join up health and care services, improve population health, and reduce health inequalities.