Job vacancy: Health Co-Ordinator for Families First Partnership Programme-Coventry, Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board, Coventry

Job summary

Main area: Health Co-Ordinator
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: 6 months (Fixed Term or Secondment)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 105-7346835-A

Employer: Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Parkside House
Town: Coventry
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/08/2025 23:59

Health Co-Ordinator for Families First Partnership Programme-Coventry

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensuring safe and effective practice

• Work as part of the FFPP multiagency Programme Team, and across Health Partners to embed systems to deliver high quality person-centred care with compassion, dignity and respect achieving positive health outcomes.

• Working with key health professionals within each agency to develop the processes needed for the multi-agency teams to be successful.

• Progress towards new ways of working within health as outlined in Working Together 2023 and the FFPP programme guide, and provide feedback on any implementation issues as they arise.

• Lead in with Partners on developing, implementing and evaluating FFPP including health systems and processes.

• Consideration of Health models with potential need to build business cases to access funding from organisations/commissioners/ other various funding opportunities. Maintaining sustainability as eventual outcome.

• Review evidence of work what works, from other areas implementing FFPP and through evidence based practice and research evidence on improving outcomes for children and families.

• Test how to achieve better co-ordination and streamlining of local partnership boards and groups. Ensuring appropriate health membership/contribution.

• Understand the key components of a system wide “family first” culture.

• Learn how prescriptive (or flexible) the national approach to system reform needs to be to function effectively.

• Implement and engage research and evidenced based practice to develop the skills of others.

• Understand what needs to be in place to enable timely, effective and appropriate information sharing between and across partners.

• Implement agreed systems to identify opportunities for learning and sharing good practice.

• Assist with the aligning of IT systems and changing and developing new health documentation and information sharing policies and procedures.

• Take timely action when professional standards fall short of those acceptable.

• Implement systems to deliver patient safety and prevention of harm assurance.

• To practice within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct ensuring knowledge and clinical expertise is maintained and developed within the scope of Professional Practice.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• First level registration with Nursing Midwifery Council
• Health care related master’s degree or equivalent
• Post basic registration course(s) • Management training
• Evidence of professional updating within last twelve months
• Experience at senior level or above with extensive safeguarding experience
• Effective leadership
• Influencing skills
• Change management.
• Suitability to work with adults/children at risk of abuse
• Patient/user involvement or advocacy
• Practice/service development within area of control
• Workforce planning
• Data collection/analysis, audit and evaluation – uses of database
• Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of IT packages such as Word, PAS, and E-rostering etc.
• Ability to inspire others
• Able to work under pressure across competing priorities.
• Ability to utilise research and develop research aware culture.
• Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
• Can act on own initiative.
• Ambition in expectations of self and colleagues in delivering high-quality care.
• Patient/user involvement or advocacy role
• Practice/service development
• Clinical competence and credibility

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Ability to communicate with senior staff on a range of highly complex and sensitive issues requiring both persuasive and empathetic skills
• Presentation skills to small and large groups

Analytical Skills

Essential criteria

• To lead in the development and maintenance of a suite of reports, consistent with routine performance monitoring, that accurately describes the ICB’s position across Continuing Healthcare portfolio
• Expert understanding of Microsoft Office Suite including Advanced Excel, Access, Word and Excel spreadsheet modelling
• Expert understanding of relational databases, and of reporting from SQL Server and SSRS (SQL reporting studio)
• Proven problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected service demands
• Ability to analyse highly complex facts and situations and develop a range of options for direct senior management in support of decision making
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise

Planning Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects

Management Skills

Essential criteria

• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
• Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
• Manage relationships with suppliers including of Information Systems.

Freedom to Act

Essential criteria

• Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)

Physical Skills

Essential criteria

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite with excellent keyboard skills.

Equality and Diversity

Essential criteria

• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.

Other

Essential criteria

• Used to working in a busy environment
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
• Professional calm and efficient manner
• Effective organiser, influencer and networker
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• Completer/Finisher
• Ability to work across all areas involved in FFCP model
• Positive and enthusiastic
• Can act on own initiative

Coventry and Warwickshire ICB are committed to supporting all employees to work flexibly. Flexible working is an arrangement which supports an individual to have greater choice in when, where, and how they work. Employees can request flexible working from your first day with us. The option to request flexible working is offered regardless of role, banding, or reason for wanting to work flexibly. If you are interested in this vacancy and would want to consider a form of flexible working, we would encourage you to reach out to us to discuss further.

We aim to be a great place to work and have many initiatives in place to support staff. In line with the Equality Act 2010, our organisation has an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group which meets on a monthly basis and has representation from a wide range of staff groups and supports a fairer and more diverse workplace for everyone.

The ICB has a Wellbeing Warriors group which has recently received Bronze level accreditation for Thrive at work and is working towards Silver accreditation. The Wellbeing warriors focus on physical, mental and emotional health of all staff providing tips, resources and webinars to support and educate staff from senior management to administrators about their wellbeing.

Mindful employer. Being positive about mental health.

Stonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Sharon Mikhael
Job title: Associate Chief Nurse Safeguarding
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07917828442

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Job summary

Employer heading

Health Co-Ordinator for Families First Partnership Programme-Coventry

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

Analytical Skills

Essential criteria

Planning Skills

Essential criteria

Management Skills

Essential criteria

Freedom to Act

Essential criteria

Physical Skills

Essential criteria

Equality and Diversity

Essential criteria

Other

Essential criteria

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Documents to download

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