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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Promoting equality and reducing inequalities

• To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.
• To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.

Partnership and cross boundary working

• To liaise with NHS Optometry contractors
• To liaise with Optometry leads
• To liaise with key staff in other teams
• Provide advice to all relevant stakeholders, including the Primary Care Commissioning Team (as directed) on matters relating to assurance of Optometry practice.
• To provide clinical and professional input to investigations and subsequent management of serious untoward incidents, complaints, and other clinical incidents

Operational requirements

• Working within the overall strategic objectives, devise, implement and monitor the agreed strategy. Evaluate, interpret, and locally implement best practice.
• Contribute to the delivery of the function.
• Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the organisational strategy. Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports. Tailoring delivery to meet the needs of the audience.
• Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate, and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.
• Ensure that appropriate strategies are employed in line with business objectives and that these are fully cascaded.
• Support and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level internal and external stakeholders, providing a high level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.
• Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies and programmes to maximise service benefits.
• Track progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks, and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure the securing of value for money, assuring relevant factors such as quality and governance.
• To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables. Quality assurance and progress of deliverables to the NHS England that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives, and the business planning process.
• To contribute to business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice
• Devise, manage and update policies and procedures, ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology, rules, standards, and thresholds.
• Support the creation and locally implements the operational strategy and business plan, clearly identifying links to national, regional, and local priorities and policy objectives.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of general policy and service development.
• Develop and implement strategies for improving performance and processes, ensuring stakeholders representation.
• Drive and lead development and improvement of processes.
• Drive process efficiency in the continuous development of the end-to-end cycle and its associated performance metrics.
• Accountable for short-, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
• Responsible for linking people, resource, and strategy to organisational strategy.

Leadership for transformational change

• As part of the Clinical Leadership team and together with colleagues, support the ICB Medical directors  in the delivery of all ICB  
• To support the medical director in delivery of statutory functions
• To provide clear clinical leadership on using innovative approaches and aligning tools and levers in order to support the improvement of outcomes for patients and drive up the quality of care.
• To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the Directorate

Developing an excellent organisation

• To ensure the 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

Financial and Physical Resources

• Budgetary responsibility, where appropriate, for a function and the services provided within that function, where it exists. Evaluating value for money of new contracts, monitoring the performance of existing providers and ensuring that provider performance aligns, and comply, with contractual terms and condition.
• Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of these budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year, in a way that is compliant withstanding Orders and standing Financial Instruction.

People Management

• Support the team, building a collaborative working environment and an innovative culture.
• Support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives, where appropriate.
• To manage, motivate, inspire, and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the employee relations cases responsibilities of the ICB.
• Contribute to the recruitment and development of team staff, including undertaking appraisal, ensuring team and individual development and where appropriate progression of employee relations matters.

Information Management.

• Responsible for devising, developing, and implementing appropriate information sharing systems.
• Lead the creation, maintenance, and review implementation, of information systems for collecting, evaluating, and interpreting complex data. To inform short and medium and long term strategies.
• Developing and presenting reports, summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, providing progress reports for senior staff or groups of staff as directed from time to time, tailoring content to meet the needs of the audience.

Research and Development

• Ensures the team are able to access best practice and current information within specialism, draining from experience and expertise in other fields and industries, ensuring the organisation and other stakeholder organisations, benefit from relevant innovations.
• Commissions Research and Development initiatives to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation, through new goods and services or re-engineering existing processes.

Policy and Service Development

• To identify and assess opportunities for new services and threats to existing services and market developments.
• Develop plans and seize opportunities, mitigate threats, and deliver strategic objectives. Within own function making recommendations for service delivery.
• Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines, and service level agreements (SLA’s) which may impact service delivery and Sector.
•  Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments, to assist in the thinking and definition of strategy discussions.

Key Working Relationships

• Regular contact with internal and external stakeholders, sensitive, complex, contentious, and confidential issues.
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives to provide project, information and analytical advice and expertise.
• Overseeing the team to develop and implement processes and systems that align to strategy.
• Present verbal, written and numerical information and issues, explaining complexities, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

• To liaise with other Managers to share best practice.