Clinical Senate Chair | NHS England

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:

• To provide overarching professional and clinical leadership of the Clinical Senate in the defined area
• To provide strategic clinical advice to constituent commissioning organisations across the totality of health and social care
• To communicate the role and added value of the Clinical Senate ensuring advice and input is fed into the commissioning process.
• 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.
• Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and engage proactively with stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively, building good working relationships, providing information and advice to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Lead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Drive and challenge each key working relationship to innovate and to achieve agreed objectives.
• Provide 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.
• Manage situations with staff and stakeholders within change programmes for successful outcomes, often dealing with complex and conflicting issues with staff and stakeholders.
• Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of projects/programmes.
• Represent the Region in sensitive and political situations, delivering difficult messages where required to high-level audiences.
• Chair Clinical Senate expert panels or recruit appropriate clinicians to chair these panels.
• To 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.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money., NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker routeyou'llusually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website.