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Job overview

The last two years have seen us navigate, as a system, and with the support of colleagues, a range of quality challenges. These include a range of reviews following the emergence of culture concerns at UHB, how we work together to ensure the appropriate safeguards are in place for children and young people, how we ensure our maternity services are safe and accessible for the citizens who require them and how our mental health services are commissioned and delivered closer with much better input from the patients who use them.

Over two years on from our establishment, we are proud to have built an open, collaborative and system approach to our future operating model. The impact of the pandemic on access to treatment in Birmingham and Solihull was profound. Since then, we have pioneered collaborative ways of working that enable us to consider challenges together in a one team one system approach.  

We have seen integration become the foundation of our decision-making, supporting health and care across Birmingham and Solihull to innovate, transform and meet the needs of our staff, patients, and communities

The Chief Nursing Officer role is critical to our transformation we need to both address our immediate challenges while also building health and care services that will better meet the needs of current and future generations.

Main duties of the job

The Chief Nursing Officer is an executive board level role in the BSol ICB. This role is central to the successful delivery of the objectives of the Birmingham & Solihull) (Bsol) Integrated Care System (ICS), is an executive director of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) reporting to the Chief Executive.

The post holder is responsible, with the Chief Medical Officer, leading the ICB Quality Unit,  the purpose of which is to provide scrutiny and support the delivery of the delivery of both national and local quality and safety priorities. To be successful the post holder must be able to work across a number of key teams. The ICB executive team, work closely and positively with local providers and other stakeholders (e.g., local government) and work closely with colleagues in NHS England.

In line with the organisational design principles of the ICB, the post-holder will lead a ‘lean’ team organised around:

• Statutory requirements of a ICB chief nurse.
• Quality
• Continuing health care
• Complaints
• Equality and diversity.

Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate they can use your experience to:

·        Work alongside other executive colleagues as an equal member of the board           

·        All executive directors of the ICB will have a set of core responsibilities around:

Ø  Creating a compassionate and inclusive culture

Ø  Leading for social justice and health equality

Ø  Public accountability and governance

Ø  Service improvement

Working for our organisation

We were legally established on 1 July 2022, after abolishment of Clinical Commissioning Groups, following the Health and Care Act 2022 receiving Royal Assent. Our constitution was published on the same day.

An ICB is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of the Birmingham and Solihull population, managing the NHS budget and arranging for the provision of health services in the Integrated Care System (ICS) area.

We provide strategic leadership for the entire system, which is made up of 14 partners across health and social care, and the voluntary and community sectors.

We serve a population of more than 1.3 million people across Birmingham and Solihull.

Birmingham is one of the most diverse cities in England, with more than 50% of its population from global majority backgrounds. Solihull is home to an aging population, while both areas have significant disparities between those on highest and lowest income, with 40% of Birmingham residents and 12% of Solihull residents living in the most deprived communities in Britain.

The system is tasked with delivering the highest quality care to our citizens against a backdrop of significant challenge. However, we are proud of the strides we have made in recent years towards improving how we provide care, address health inequalities and make a positive impact for staff, patients and communities.