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Job overview

Clinical and Care Professional Leads support south east London-wide and borough programmes of work, therefore, there is an expectation that you currently work within south east London, and for borough based roles, within that borough.

This role will provide expert and pragmatic advice, leadership, and management necessary to support the ICB’s statutory duty of commissioning safe and high quality services but also work with the Chief Nurse and Medical Director to lead change across the system to improve quality and patient safety. The postholder will work closely with the Directors of Quality and Chief Pharmacist Director to provide clinical leadership for improved quality and safety across the ICS.

Main duties of the job

In collaboration with the Directors of Quality, support the work of the Quality and Nursing Directorate as well as the wider ICB in driving forward quality improvement by:

• Developing the workplan for the System Quality Group including task and finish groups as appropriate.
• Lead on the learning from deaths group agenda and planning to ensure learning from all reviews and reports are shared and quality improvement programmes developed at Local Care Partnership or SEL wide levels; this will include Child Death Overview Panel reports, LeDeRreports, Medical Examiner reports (community deaths), regulation 28 Preventing Future Deaths from coroner’s offices, trends and themes from Patient Safety Incident.
• Support the delivery of the Medical examiner service across SEL
• Supporting the implementation of the National Patient Safety Strategy in south-east London by acting as a professional lead for the Patient Safety Specialist and to be a part of the steering group to ensure the ICB and ICS can derive maximum benefit from the strategy.  
• Clinical leadership for system wide patient safety incidents.  
• Act as a convener for borough based CCPL Quality leads and support cross system learning as well as shared learning and development.
• Work with the Chief Nurse and Directors of Quality on areas and issues which may arise from national reviews
• Work with the Chief Nurse and Directors of Quality on any focused improvement work required across the system

Working for our organisation

From the Catford Cat to the Brixton Windmill and Chislehurst Caves, South East London is a vibrant, fun, unique and richly diverse place to live, grow, learn and work.

The South East London Integrated Care System (SELICS) brings together the organisations responsible for health and care services in south east London, making the greatest possible contribution to the health and wellbeing of people living in our six boroughs.

SELICS is made up of staff working in many different roles, in different settings, employed in different ways, by a wide range of partner organisations, and are at the centre of our collective ambition for greater integration and better care. Employing organisations include NHS Trusts, GP practices, Social Care and Voluntary sector organisations, social enterprises, dental surgeries, pharmacies and optometrists.
We have an ambitious People Strategy that brings these partners together to deliver the ‘one workforce’ ambition, making the health and care system a better place to work and live.