Integrated Care Systems Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Integrated Care Systems Lead

Job description

Responsible to: Director of Business Development and Innovation

About the role

As our Integrated Care Systems Lead, you will play a pivotal role in steering Affinity Trust's engagement with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across the UK. Your primary focus will be building robust relationships with ICSs, aligning our services with their strategic ambitions, and securing new social care contracts. This role is critical in ensuring Affinity Trust is positioned as a partner of choice within the evolving health and social care landscape, providing innovative and person-centred services to support people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Job Purpose

Support the development of meaningful engagement, involvement and collaboration between Affinity Trust and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and commissioners to build partnerships, understanding and shared learning and intelligence of the integrated health and social care landscape.

Ensure the organisation realises its potential as a key strategic delivery partner within Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) where we operate through growth, collaboration, and co-production activities.

Lead and coordinate ICS engagement activity within Learning Disabilities, Autism, and Mental Health workstreams and play a policy support role for the Operations and Development teams in engaging with the ICS and strategic partners.

Secure new contracts and funding opportunities to support people in line with place-based ICS priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Engagement: Develop and execute strategies to engage effectively with ICSs, understanding their structures, priorities, and how our services can deliver added value.

Business Development: Identify and secure new contract opportunities within ICSs that align with our mission to support people with learning disabilities and autistic people, ensuring sustainable growth.

Partnership Building: Cultivate strong, collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders within the ICS framework, including NHS organisations, local authorities, and other social care providers.

Market Insight: Keep abreast of market trends and policy changes that impact the health and social care sector, adapting strategies to enhance our competitive position.

Advocacy & Representation: Represent Affinity Trust at relevant forums, conferences, and meetings, championing our expertise in supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience
• Demonstrable experience and proven track record of:
• Working in integrated care systems between health and social care
• Understanding of Transforming Care and developing specialist services for people with complex needs
• Securing new social care contracts
• Growing a network and increasing engagement with local communities at a national scale
• Research and feedback gathering
• Strong coordination, organisation and planning skills

Qualifications

• Skills and abilities
• A people-person, able to build constructive relationships
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Creative and innovative, particularly in the preparation and delivery of engagement activities and events for different audiences
• Confident in facilitating, presenting and raise issues at meetings
• Confident in using Microsoft and other software
• Strong written communication skills
• Developing engaging content, promotional materials, and presentations
• Able to work to a consistently high standard with good attention to detail and accuracy
• Proven ability to plan ahead, and organise workloads to balance priorities and meet deadlines
• Solution-focused

Knowledge

• Understanding of:
• Best practices in meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities and autistic people of all ages
• Health and social care commissioning and provider systems
• The health and care sector and issues
• Health inequalities what they are and who they impact
• Understanding of the voluntary sector is an advantage.

Personal qualities

• Collaborative
• Resilient
• Self-motivated
• Flexible
• Committed to continuous personal/professional development.
• A driving license and access to own transport are essential. Some travel and overnight stays may be required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Affinity Trust

Address

Homebased, with requirement to travel across operational services in the UK

Affinity Trust

1 St Andrews Court, Wellington Street

Thame

OX9 3WT

https://www.affinitytrust.org/