Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Blackpool
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The closing date is 24 November 2025
This role will provide overall leadership to the clinical and care professional network for the Blackpool Based Partnership (PBP) - acknowledging the close working relationships across the Fylde Coast footprint (Place plus), and to the other Clinical and Care Professional Leads across the range of portfolio areas. They will be a Blackpool the voice at system clinical meetings e.g. clinical assembly, task and finish groups relevant to place, ensuring the voice of the place, and the professionals within it, is heard and informs decision making at system level.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical and Care Professional Lead will play a key part in creating links across all health and social care sectors including voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations in the PBP, working with other members of the PBP team. As a leader they will ensure links between all levels of care, the PBP and all clinical and care professionals and use their experience and expertise to engage, inform and support improvements in care. They will provide clinical and care professional leadership to support the Place Lead, in the development and delivery of the ambitions of the ICB, ICP and PBP and the integration of health and social care.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is a fully-authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. Each Team within the ICB aims is to improve the health of the people and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically-led commissioning of high quality healthcare services.
Good induction and training offered. Friendly Multi-disciplinary Team. The role is varied and involves working closely with Local Authority, Acute Trusts and with providers.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, progressive ICB and to make a positive contribution to the lives of people in Lancashire & South Cumbria.
Job responsibilities
The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.
Contacts and relationships
Positively engage with external agencies and act as advocate for the PBP and partner organisations
Actively look for potential opportunities with key contacts to address health inequalities, improve population health and improve overall service delivery and performance
Work with other clinical programme place- based clinical and care leads, including, but not limited to, Blackpools clinical and care professional leads for Mental Health, Cancer, Quality and Digital as well as programme system clinical and care leads, when necessary, to support delivery of improvements.
To provide expertise and leadership to population health and health inequalities at place, working in alignment with and under the direction of the Associate Medical Director for Population Health, including:
* Supporting the Population Health Place Team
* Engaging with partner organisations and communities regarding health inequalities and population health and providing enabling support, leadership and assistance as required
* Leading a network of PCN health inequality Clinical Leads at place, ensuring action to understand health inequalities and embed population health approaches in every neighbourhood
Connect and build trust with colleagues and patients across traditional boundaries - developing strong networks and relationships that work in service of patients over organisations, places or professional groups
Make sound operational and clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision
Listen with compassion to the needs, hopes and challenges of those they work with and serve, using this understanding to actively involve others in the decisions that affect their lives
Support the Place based leaders to gather, verify and assess all appropriate and available information to gain an accurate understanding of the situation.
Service delivery and outcomes
Ensure that the needs of the population, service users and their carers are at the core of the way PBP delivers services, recognising and tackling inequalities of access and outcome
Catalyse and embed ways to test and share new and innovative ideas and approaches that improve how we design and deliver care to our patients and population
Ensure that service delivery is person centred, outcomes focused and protective of individual service users dignity
Support service managers to ensure that the service meets all relevant quality standards, specifically CQC, ICB and all relevant NICE guidelines
Support the effective and efficient deployment of resources to achieve agreed outcomes and targets
Work as a team member developing and maintaining effective working relationships
Keep up to date with relevant policies and procedures
Creativity and innovation
Encourage and test new ways of working together, collaborating and learning from each other to achieve our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our population
Seek out and embrace different ideas, perspectives and challenges being able to adapt and change course by continually learning from others around them.
Takes an innovative and creative approach to solving problems
Considers innovation in the workplace an ongoing responsibility and welcomes change as an integral part of both individual and organisation development
Acts as a positive role model for innovation and a facilitator for change
Enables PBP to support the ICB ambition to help the NHS to provide broader social and economic development
Planning and organising
Develops practical and realistic plans to achieve outcomes/objectives
Considers the wider implications with regards to skills, resources in achieving plans/ outcomes/objectives
Ensures appropriate resources and levels of capability to deliver priorities as well as delivering value for money
Takes responsibility for delivery of plans, outcomes and objectives which may involve coordinating and organising others
Ensures that all locally developed plans, and the enactment of ICP strategic plans locally, are crafted in such a way as to meet local population health needs, that plans do not unintentionally widen access or outcome inequalities and that plans are both evidence based and have appropriate assurance metrics attached to them.
Communication
Actively contribute to a culture of positive communication
Support the Place based team to deliver presentations and training internally to staff and externally to partners/ agencies, where appropriate
Support the Place based team with CQC inspections, service developments and other relevant tasks
Effectively manage resources within your control.
Continually develop own clinical knowledge and practise with respect to service speciality
Readiness to continue personal development in accessing opportunities to listen to the voices of lived experience and continually deepen understanding of the barriers to health for those facing the great inequalities
Equality and Diversity
Act in ways that actively promote equity and value diversity
Help to develop and maintain an organisational culture that supports equity and diversity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered healthcare professional or social worker in a LSC partner organisation.
* Qualification or evidence of special interest in lead area or equivalent.
Leadership
* Be competent, confident and willing to give an unbiased strategic clinical or professional view on aspects of quality and safety within the PBP.
* Have the skills and experience to plan and chair meetings with multi-professional and multiple stakeholder involvement.
Knowledge
* Knowledge and understanding of health, care and local government landscape, and integrated care agenda.
* Knowledge and understanding of population health inequalities and how these impact people's outcomes and experience of health and care provision within the place.
Experience
* Experience of working within Blackpool as part of the LSC health and care system.
* Proven ability to engage people by the way they communicate and interact, including residents, patients and service users, their carers, and clinical and professional leaders.
* Working across boundaries and collaborative working, including with communities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
County Hall (This is the head office, however the role is working within the Blackpool patch)
£100,870 to £111,441 a year £300 per session
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Part-time, Home or remote working
Reference number
125-ICB034-25
Job locations
County Hall (This is the head office, however the role is working within the Blackpool patch)
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