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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Purpose:
The post holders will lead the half of the networks/workstreams to ensure that they:
• Delivers effective clinical flows through the provider system through clinical collaboration for networked provision of services.
• Takes a whole system collaborative approach to service provision, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of sustainable services across the patient pathway, adding value for all stakeholders.
Learning, Respect, Delivery, Excellence, Compassion, Improvement
• Leads and develops Improving Value schemes in collaboration with NHS England colleagues
• Improves cross-organisational multi-professional clinical engagement to improve pathways of care.
• Enables the development of consistent provider guidance and improved services to national standards, ensuring a consistent patient and family experience.
• Manages identified ODN risk and escalates reporting while influencing mitigation.
• Focusses on quality and effectiveness through facilitation of comparative benchmarking and audit of services with implementation of required improvements.
• Leads the ODN in delivering a strategy implementing national policy and best practice across the network area as appropriate
• Supports capacity planning, activity monitoring and forecast planning across the sector in collaboration with ODN Data Analytical staff and commissioning teams.
Operational
• As senior lead working internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost-effective way.
• To support the identification and sharing of best practice to support service improvement.
• To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
• Support the portfolio of programmes/projects in demonstrating value for money tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
• Provide advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders.
• In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports
Improving quality and outcomes
• To ensure that the Network activities support delivery of equitable, quality service provision for all patients.
• Maintaining a comprehensive vision for the delivery of national imperatives and local solutions.
• Ensure the Network contributes to appropriate annual ODN audit programme(s).
• Collaborate across ODNs and with Clinical Leads to establish a benchmarking process for clinical outcome measures as outlined in the NHS England Service Specifications.
Financial and Physical Resources
• Responsible for supporting the commissioning of projects and procurement of services to support project delivery.
• Provide financial reports to the Board as required.
• Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets, and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
People Management
• Responsible for the day to day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment, and where necessary employee relations matters.
• Responsible for an individual’s development on the job and team performance.
Learning, Respect, Delivery, Excellence, Compassion, Improvement
Enabling patient and public involvement
• To ensure that the patient’s voice is identified through any service developments or standards related to delivery of ODN objectives
• To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making in the ODN.
• To ensure all public and patient contact with the ODN is of the highest professional standard.
People Management
• Responsible for the day to day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment and where necessary employee relations matters.
• Responsible for an individual’s development on the job and team performance.
Information Management.
• Develop and deliver information sharing systems.
• Develop the acquisition, organisation, provision and use of knowledge and information.
• Highlight exceptions and risks ensuring mitigating action is taken.
• Drafting reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and roviding progress reports for the Programme of Care Manager.
• Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to delivery of ‘products’ and service improvement.
• Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
Research and Development
• Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information
• Deliver projects to comply with key performance indicators, and best practice guidance.
• Co-ordinate Research & Development initiatives, delegating as appropriate.
Planning and Organisation:
• Ensure projects, services and initiatives are delivered on time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner, adjusting plans as required.
• Determine the strategic planning of ODN projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
• Determine the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with Service Sector priorities.
• Determine short, medium and long term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Developing an excellent organisation
• To ensure health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the department.
• To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department.
• To adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times.
Learning, Respect, Delivery, Excellence, Compassion, Improvement
Policy and Service Development:
• Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLA’s) which may impact within ODN.
• Proposes changes to own project/service and make recommendations for other projects/service delivery.