Urgent Care Project Manager Sleaford, England
Job description
This post is part of the restructuring and repopulation of the UE Programme Team following the creation of the System Coordination Centre (which was a direct national instruction). The post is an essential post to support the UEC discharge and flow programme and deliver the UEC recovery plan for Lincolnshire (as per the national requirement).
The post holder will lead on several UEC projects and areas of business as usual that will be key components of the national recovery plan delivery.
With support from the UEC system programme lead and programme manager, support the system at times of escalation to endure the day to day operational system delivery.
Understand the entire patient journey from primary to acute care to discharge pathways into the community while leading on projects to improve these pathways and to optimise the patient experience, this will include engagement and consultation with patients, carers and their families.
Work with operational partners across the primary, community and acute commissioning teams to ensure that services are as effective as possible and identify where UEC projects of change impact on or require support from other programme areas.
As part of the project work support the development of new pathways into the hospital for local services such as 999 and the 111 IUC service to direct patients to other areas of the hospital, to reduce the burden on the front door.
To develop good working relationships with system partners and wider stakeholders.
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.
In conjunction, with patient experienceand the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan), which broadly fall into three types of scheme: system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.
The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate goverance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB's objectives and financial sustainability.
The post holder will lead on several UEC projects and areas of business as usual that will be key components of the national recovery plan delivery.
With support from the UEC system programme lead and programme manager, support the system at times of escalation to endure the day to day operational system delivery.
Understand the entire patient journey from primary to acute care to discharge pathways into the community while leading on projects to improve these pathways and to optimise the patient experience, this will include engagement and consultation with patients, carers and their families.
Work with operational partners across the primary, community and acute commissioning teams to ensure that services are as effective as possible and identify where UEC projects of change impact on or require support from other programme areas.
As part of the project work support the development of new pathways into the hospital for local services such as 999 and the 111 IUC service to direct patients to other areas of the hospital, to reduce the burden on the front door.
To develop good working relationships with system partners and wider stakeholders.
