Senior Professional Lead -Highly Complex Care All Age Continuing Care

Following organisational change, we are keen to appoint a professional leader who can support a specialist, high performing team whose purpose is to ensure the most vulnerable in our society receive the care and support they need. They will be in receipt of care that is either partially or fully funded by the NHS and in line with the NHS Continuing care and Continuing Health Care framework. Our aim is to commission high quality, safe and personalised care; ensuring the team have the key capabilities and capacity to deliver improved outcomes for our population in line with the statutory responsibilities and frameworks., The post holder will provide senior professional leadership and support to the specialist teams. Leading the delivery of the service and aligning processes and practices within the core business objectives of the Chief Nursing Office, which are to deliver services that:

• Offer the best possible health and care outcomes for the population of BNSSG, regardless of where they are in receipt of their care regardless of where they are in receipt of their care


• Are high quality, efficient and effective, eliminating unwarranted variation and optimising use of resources within an affordable and sustainable financial envelop


• Provide joined up pathways and processes, optimising patient experience


• Promote the NHS Constitution and deliver Constitutional Standards


• Oversee the quality of care delivered to the population of BNSSG, This is a senior, challenging post which will require dynamic leadership and excellent communication skills, a proven capacity to work across the multidisciplinary spectrum at both strategic and operational levels, and to engage service users and key stakeholders and demonstrable competencies in the management and delivery of the NHS all age Continuing Healthcare Team

The post straddles the strategic/operational interface within NHS all age continuing healthcare services. The post holder is required to be able to provide advice and guidance to the ICB on interpretation but gain appropriate clinical, Professional and legal advice as required and to ensure that the organization is in line with changing legislation.
They will have specialist knowledge on NHS Continuing Healthcare and Funded Nursing care and associated legislation as well as an understanding of the national perspective and future strategy for the NHS Continuing Healthcare service and related to areas of health and social care. They will ensure staff are fully aware of the implications and can contribute effectively to service improvement.
The post holder will take the strategic lead for planning and development of NHS all age Continuing Healthcare across BNSSG, working with all stakeholders, including service users, parents' and carers, to ensure that service planning and developments reflect identified local needs, meet the strategic objectives of the ICB and are in line with national policy.
The post holder will contribute to the department's strategic workforce planning, governance, quality improvement, financial and performance management processes and will have responsibility for their effective implementation of these processes across those services for which they have responsibility.
Supporting the Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality and senior leadership colleagues, they will provide regular reports on performance to brief senior staff and meet local and external accountability requirements e.g., participating in the completion of performance management reports and discussions with ICB and Local Area Team.
The post holder will work alongside the lead for mental health, learning disability and autism to secure the development of a strategy to ensure that a PHB funding model is the default funding approach in line with national expectations and guidance.
The post holder will undertake detailed analysis of information making recommendations based on methodology-based audit/review and strategically plan and drive continual improvement in all areas paying particular attention to ensuring children young people and their families with complex needs have a supported and good experience of transitioning from children's, services to adult service. This is to ensure a seamless approach to meeting the care needs is central to the planning of their care
The post holder will be responsible for developing the local processes across BNSSG for people with highly complex care needs and for whom the ICB has a duty of care to provide support that cannot be met wholly by existing commissioned services. They will contribute to the shaping of services to ensure that the ICB successfully discharges its responsibilities under the legal and statutory frameworks.
The contracted work base for this post is located at 100 Temple St, Bristol BS21 6AG. The ICB supports hybrid working. However, in order to deliver the functions of the services, flexibility and agility are required by the post holder to deliver all aspects of this role. Therefore, the post holder must be able to commit to being available to meet in person at short notice. This may include a variety of locations such as being in the office, in the BNSSG locality or out of area to support the delivery of the requirements of the role and ICB. The ICB retains the right to request that staff work from any ICB approved location during their contracted hours within the BNSSG ICB locality at the manager's discretion.

You will be a registered professional such as a registered nurse, or AHP with at least 3 years' experience in the area of Funded Care demonstrating an understanding of the statutory requirements of the ICB alongside an ability to lead compassionately. You will have a commitment to a matrix leadership approach that enables the team to work at the top of their licence, delivering an outcome-based approach. You will ensure that BNSSG ICB can deliver on our responsibility to work with partners to meet the needs of the whole population.