Head of Health Inequalities for Children and Young people

CNWL
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Head of Health Inequalities for Children and Young people NHS AfC: Band 8b Main area Community Service Manager Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Fixed term: 12 months (this is funded via the MOU with CNWL and will have responsibilities within the ICP) Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 333-J-BR-0707

Site Civic Centre Town London Salary £67,950 – £78,028 pa inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 07/02/:59

Job overview Brent is a tremendously vibrant London borough where the iconic arch of Wembley Stadium dominates the skyline. Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here.

The ICP in partnership with CNWL have a transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.

The post holder will work closely with the community leads within the team, clinical team and Health partners to support development of strategy to tackle Health Inequalities focusing on Children and Young people. The focus will be on working with specific Health priorities as agreed by the Executive group.

The person will need to have excellent communication skills, be flexible, ability to work with wider stakeholders and have experience of working in the community.

Main duties of the job

• This role will take on the lead role to tackle Health Inequalities (HI) in Children and Young people (CYP) Brent Health Matters across services
• To work collaboratively as a member of the Senior Management Team within Brent Health Matters and ICP focusing on CYP driving change agendas
• To lead on developing clinical policy and operational pathways within CYP in accordance with identified Health Inequalities priorities
• Working with and supporting Cabinet members, lead members and Brent Integrated care partnership to ensure engagement with the Health Inequality project.
• To ensure effective performance management and professional and clinical leadership of the workforce.
• To ensure services are cost effective and delivered within budget
• To lead change management in the implementation of service development strategies.

Working for our organisation Brent Health Matters is a combined programme with Council, Health partners and voluntary sector to tackle Health Inequalities within Brent. We are looking for a Head of Health Inequalities for Children and Young people to join our team to work closely with other stakeholders and our communities to support tackling Health Inequalities.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder has managerial responsibility for the effective operational running of the community health inequalities team within Brent and will lead on the delivery of a complex portfolio focusing on the needs of Children and young people across Brent.

The post holder will work with the Senior Management Team both within CNWL, the local authority and the Partnership to ensure that the strategic direction for health inequalities for CYP, as defined within the Borough is effectively implemented at a strategic and planning level and at an operational level.

The post holder is a member of the Senior Management Team and as such has a responsibility to participate in the management of the service and provide sound advice and guidance to the Borough Director, Programme Director for Health Matters and wider Partnership SMT.

Person specification Education and Qualifications

• Educated to Master’s Degree level or equivalent
• Recognised senior management training in leadership, policy or strategy
• Evidence of on-going personal and professional development

Previous Experience – Paid/unpaid relevant to job

• Significant NHS experience with experience of recent operational experience (including budgetary/financial) at a middle management level. Experience in management of health services, at a middle management level in a health or social care organisation.
• Proven experience of managing a multi-disciplinary team including senior managers and clinicians
• Experience of organising and chairing of small and large steering groups
• Experience of policy development and strategic planning and clinical governance development resulting in change management projects/programmes
• Experience of successful interagency partnership working
• Ability to negotiate complex contracts with the approval of the Senior Manager
• Experience of working within statutory and other regulatory frameworks within which health and social care services operate and translating these at an operational level
• Experience of developing programmes designed to improve user and carer involvement
• Experience of managing a diverse workforce
• Excellent presentation skills
• Experience developing information and quality systems
• Business Management

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities

• Analytical rigour: encourages rigour and provides critical challenge in determining outcomes; Presents data and conclusions in a logical and defensible way; undertakes robust risk and impact management; seeks others’ views to test own thinking
• Decision making: Sensitive to complex political and organisational issues; weighs up available information and applies sound and timely judgement; considers consequences, impacts and implications; decisive in times of change, challenge and ambiguity
• Communication: builds rapport through consistent, confident and open communication style; routinely checks for understanding to test receipt of messages; energises, convinces and persuades; encourages honesty of message
• Relationships: awareness of, and works collaboratively with key decision makers in area of operation; promotes partnership and collaborative working within teams; demonstrates the ability to seek out and harness the views and contributions of others
• Drive for results: Champions measurable achievement of outcomes; makes best use of diverse talent, capabilities and technologies to achieve optimum results; recognises and recovers under delivery; negotiates the prioritisation of work targets and resources
• Business thinking: Understands external context at national and local level; translates context and purpose to enable teams to see their contribution; encourages teams to consider innovative approaches and review applicability to working environment
• Self-awareness: knows own strengths and weaknesses and empowers others to ensure goals are achieved; adopts a ‘can do’ approach
• Self-management: demonstrates resilience; recognises the anxieties of others and constructively; recognises and delivers to the ‘greater good’ helps them to manage appropriately; absorbs criticism
• Personal integrity: has a strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards

Other

• Sickness (or non-attendance) that is acceptable to the Trust to be checked at interview.
• Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health Department to perform the duties of the post.
• The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job.
• Ability to promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practices

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+ . click apply for full job details