Director of System Coordination | NHS England

The NHS England SW region System Oversight & Coordination directorate are looking to recruit an experienced director to the post of Director of System Coordination. The post-holder will provide senior leadership to the system coordination teams and will need to work closely with other regional directors to discharge their role.In particular working closely with the Performance, Delivery and Improvement functions on the link between performance improvement and transformation, with the Nurse and Medical Directors on clinical input to the transformation programmes and with the Finance Director and Performance Director on planning. The post-holder will need to work with all regional directors to discharge the regulatory levers when required with commissioners and/or providers.

• Hold the main relationship management role with a number of ICBs, providers and ICS and work across the regional functional structure to coordinate and align all our contacts and interventions into these organisations and systems.
• Act as a System Coordination Director for a defined set of organisations and local systems.
• Support the development of integrated care systems by catalysing the development of integrated health and care systems through which commissioners, providers, local government and other partners collaborate to improve services within a defined budget for their local population.
• Developing support for systems at each stage of maturity, improving their resilience, capability and autonomy.
• Supporting the implementation of integrated care models and population health approaches.
• Collecting, evaluating and spreading good practice.
• Ensuring systems are achieving the national must-dos whilst innovating and working in new ways to deliver the step-change required to make systems sustainable.
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 route you'll usually 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.
• Hold the main relationship management role with a number of ICS.
• System Development - providing hands on practical support to improve systems' resilience and capabilities e.g. OD, leadership, change management, clinical and other support to implement integrated care models.
• Calling off support from national teams and coordinating the various offers into a coherent package as appropriate.
• Managing relationships with systems in their patch.
• Helping systems plan and implement strategic changes to local health and care systems, including service reconfiguration and changes to organisational form.
• Translating national vision for integrated care systems into system-by-system development plans; varying according to maturity.
• Working with regional directors to authorise new integrated care systems and agree delegation of regional resource into the system.
• Working with the Performance, Delivery and Improvement teams to align operational improvement work with broader system transformation priorities.
• Managing a team of non-BAU resources in the region that can be prioritised and used flexibly to move forward medium to long-term change.
• Leading development support to systems on commissioner evolution and transformation including commissioning capability and ICS mergers etc.