Clinical Steward for Children and Young People

Job Summary

Stewardship is a collaborative and strategic approach to healthcare leadership that emphasises shared responsibility for optimising resources, improving population health outcomes, and tackling health inequalities. This model fosters integration and innovation by aligning care delivery with system-wide goals, ensuring a patient-centred and value-based approach.

As a steward, the individual is expected to embody these principles by:

Leading collaboratively: Driving integration across sectors and fostering collective accountability by convening multi-agency stakeholders to address shared challenges. Stewards should actively lead discussions, mediate between parties, and create unified action plans.

Championing data-driven insights: Using analytics and evidence to inform clinical and operational decisions that enhance patient care and reduce disparities. Examples include developing targeted interventions using population health data or designing risk stratification tools.

Engaging with stakeholders: Building and maintaining robust relationships across health and care systems to ensure alignment with shared objectives and priorities. This involves regular communication with patient groups, clinical leads, and external agencies.

Main Duties of the Job

Working in collaboration with the commissioning and transformation teams, care navigators, SEND and children's continuing care teams, the Children and Young People (CYP) Clinical Steward will provide effective clinical leadership for CYP services on behalf of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System. This role will involve driving service transformation redesign and improvement based on population health needs and the identified priorities of the ICS. The postholder will focus on reducing health inequalities, shaping service provision, and ensuring the effective delivery of all services for children and young people.

Alignment with Strategic Goals: The postholder will play a significant role in reducing health inequalities through the utilisation of population health data to influence change and shape services. The postholder will advocate for and support the implementation of service delivery models that address identified health inequalities and ensure equitable access to care for all CYP, regardless of background, level of care need or socio-economic status.

Leadership and Collaboration: Through developing relationships and utilising expert knowledge, the postholder will influence clinical decision making and transformation within the ICB and across system partners, including local authorities, education, acute trusts, community services, and VCSE providers.

About Us

Health and care services in Norfolk and Waveney are working closely together to further improve services and provide more joined-up care for local people. In Norfolk and Waveney, we have already achieved a lot by working in partnership to improve health and care outcomes. These changes have been made possible by different organisations - NHS hospitals, GPs, mental health and community health services, local councils, care homes and social workers, voluntary and community organisations and others - joining forces to agree and plan for local people's needs.

Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS) includes a statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), and an Integrated Care Board (ICB) called NHS Norfolk and Waveney. This partnership and organisation dedicated to making sure that organisations work together for the benefit of our residents, staff and communities is an important step change, helping to create positive differences to local people and joining up health and social care. This is the culmination of many years of effort to build partnership working across the NHS, local authorities, the third sector, and patient groups.

Job Responsibilities

This role serves as a key driver for implementing integrated care pathways, supporting the ICS's mission to reduce and improve patient outcomes.

1. Facilitate collaboration across sectors, aligning local initiatives with national frameworks such as Core20PLUS5 and the NHS Long Term Plan.

2. Provide effective clinical and care professional leadership on behalf of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System in the redesign of services based on population health needs and identified system priorities.

3. Provide strategic clinical and care professional leadership in CYP services, through expertise and knowledge to drive improvements in relevant health and care services across Norfolk and Waveney.

4. Lead effective communication with other clinical and care professionals from across the system, sharing best practice and representing their views in the redesign and improvement of services.

5. Participate in the Clinical and Care Professional leadership development programme and engage in the monthly Community of Practice, contributing to system-wide transformation discussions and ensuring alignment with ICS priorities.

6. Provide a significant contribution in meetings that may be needed to progress the areas of work required, which may include chairing meetings.

7. Support the identification, development, and mentoring of future aspiring clinical and care professional leaders as part of the longer-term plan within the Norfolk and Waveney Clinical and Care Professional Leadership Framework.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates knowledge of health and/or care pathway transformation

Desirable

• Currently working in the N&W ICS

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered clinical or care professional with current registration

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.