Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Leadership
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months (Secondment and Employed for Tax Purposes also considered)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 125-ICB-020-26
- Employer
- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- County Hall
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £140,078 Annual salary to be pro-rated
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/11/2026 17:00
Employer heading
Professional Commissioning Advisor- Optometry
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Job overview
**This role can be considered as a job share with the portfolio split between assurance and transformation. Please indicate on your application if you wish to be considered for a job share**
The Professional commissioning advisor is a senior clinical and professional leadership role within the Integrated Care Board’s Clinical and Care Professional Leadership (CCPL) framework.
The role exists to strengthen the use of clinical evidence, professional judgement and population insight within strategic commissioning and service improvement; bringing the specific knowledge of your professional background.
Main duties of the job
The Professional commissioning advisor is a senior clinical and professional leadership role within the Integrated Care Board’s Clinical and Care Professional Leadership (CCPL) framework.
The role exists to strengthen the use of clinical evidence, professional judgement and population insight within strategic commissioning and service improvement; bringing the specific knowledge of your professional background.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.
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Providing specialty expert clinical knowledge and advice for pharmacy, eye health or dentistry matters and represent the professional voice in commissioning and transformation activity.
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Leading the clinical transformation and service re-design within the ICB strategic priorities for your professional group.
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Providing clinical advice into commissioning, contracting and assurance processes.
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Leading the coordination of responses to population health needs at system and place level, working in a matrix with other ICB teams.
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Providing professional advice within the system such as contributing to individual funding request panels. MP enquiries and clinical and contracting concerns from the public pertaining to your professional group.
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Provide support to and clinical oversight of acute interface matters, clinical complaints and investigations when they pertain to pharmacy, optometry or dentistry
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Work collaboratively with providers, primary care, local authorities and VCFSE partners.
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Build effective relationships with a range of individuals including other care professionals, clinicians, programme leads and patients/service users across system, population footprints and neighbourhood levels
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered healthcare professional or social worker in a LSC partner organisation.
- Qualification or evidence of special interest in lead area or equivalent.
Leadership
Essential criteria
- Have the skills and experience to plan and chair meetings with multi-professional and multiple stakeholder involvement.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Feeney
- Job title
- Pharmacy and Optometry Specialist Commissioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07710152285
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