Deputy Director All Age Continuing Care

Overview

As Deputy Director of All Age Continuing Care, you will provide strategic and professional leadership for West Yorkshire’s statutory AACC responsibilities, ensuring safe, effective, personalised care and continuous improvement. You will lead service transformation and performance across the system, working with NHS partners, local authorities and third sector organisations to reduce unwarranted variation and improve outcomes. This is a mission-driven, system-wide leadership role with a strong focus on collaboration and sustainable change. You will shape the future of AACC and make a meaningful difference to patients, families and communities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and professional leadership for the ICB’s AACC function across West Yorkshire
• Ensure delivery of safe, effective, personalised care in line with statutory and national requirements
• Lead service transformation, quality improvement, assurance and performance programmes
• Oversee activity, performance and financial information to ensure value for money
• Collaborate with NHS organisations, local authorities and wider partners to develop integrated services
• Lead and develop multi-functional teams and foster inclusion and continuous improvement
• Provide expert advice on commissioning, service redesign and national policy
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, partners, patients and communities to drive system-wide change
• Manage significant budgets with governance and financial control

Key requirements

• Masters degree level education; professional clinical qualification (e.g. nursing, AHP or social work); evidence of continuing professional development
• Senior leadership of multi-function teams
• Accountability for multi-million-pound budgets
• Multi-agency strategy and planning; influencing system-wide strategic change
• Translating policy into strategy and transformation; experience with sensitive stakeholder engagement
• UK professional registration and ability to travel across the ICS/ICB footprint

• credible, compassionate and resilient leadership
• strong collaboration and influencing abilities
• excellent stakeholders management and relationship-building
• NHS policy, planning, commissioning, performance and governance
• AACC knowledge and healthcare improvement methods
• service redesign and transformation

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