Professional Commissioning Advisor- Dental

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board; Preston; Remote; GBP 126,000 - 154,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Home or remote working

Part-time role

Job summary

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board is seeking a Professional Commissioning Advisor (Dental) to provide senior clinical leadership within its Clinical and Care Professional Leadership framework. The role strengthens use of clinical evidence, judgement and population insight in strategic commissioning and service improvement.

You will advise on delegated commissioning, contracting and assurance for dentistry, optometry and pharmacy, and drive clinical quality improvement across

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with UK registration.
• Evidence of leadership in a multi-professional setting or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical advice to commissioning, contracting and assurance processes for pharmacy, dentistry and optometry.
• Lead clinical transformation and service redesign within strategic priorities for your professional group.
• Coordinate population health responses across system and place with multiple partners.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Clinical knowledge

Education

Registered professional status (UK)

Job description

Main area Clinical Leadership Grade Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM Contract Fixed term: 24 months (Secondment and Employed for Tax Purposes also considered) Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working
• Other

15 hours per week (0.4 wte) Job ref 125-ICB-023-26

Employer NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site County Hall Town Preston Salary £140,078 Annual salary to be pro-rated Salary period Yearly Closing 20/11/2026 17:00

Professional Commissioning Advisor- Dental

Job overview

The Professional Commissioning Advisor is a senior clinical and professional leadership role within the Integrated Care Board’s Clinical and Care Professional Leadership (CCPL) framework.

The role exists to strengthen the use of clinical evidence, professional judgement and population insight within strategic commissioning and service improvement; bringing the specific knowledge of your professional background.

Main duties of the job

The role provides clinical advice and support to the formal delegated commissioning, contracting and assurance processes of the ICB for pharmacy, dentistry and optometry. The post holder will contribute to clinical quality improvement in pharmacy, optometry or dentistry services, including visits to practice sites.

The role will work proactively across organisational boundaries within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System and North West England and across multiple partners to improve population outcomes and the way services are delivered. The post holder is expected to operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders.

Working for our organisation

Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is a fully-authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. Each Team within the ICB aims is to improve the health of the people and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically-led commissioning of high quality healthcare services.

Good induction and training offered. Friendly Multi-disciplinary Team. The role is varied and involves working closely with Local Authority, Acute Trusts and with providers.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, progressive ICB and to make a positive contribution to the lives of people in Lancashire & South Cumbria.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.

• Providing specialty expert clinical knowledge and advice for pharmacy, eye health or dentistry matters and represent the professional voice in commissioning and transformation activity.
• Leading the clinical transformation and service re-design within the ICB strategic priorities for your professional group.
• Providing clinical advice into commissioning, contracting and assurance processes.
• Leading the coordination of responses to population health needs at system and place level, working in a matrix with other ICB teams.
• Providing professional advice within the system such as contributing to individual funding request panels. MP enquiries and clinical and contracting concerns from the public pertaining to your professional group.
• Provide support to and clinical oversight of acute interface matters, clinical complaints and investigations when they pertain to pharmacy, optometry or dentistry
• Work collaboratively with providers, primary care, local authorities and VCFSE partners.
• Build effective relationships with a range of individuals including other care professionals, clinicians, programme leads and patients/service users across system, population footprints and neighbourhood levels

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional or social worker in a LSC partner organisation.
• Qualification or evidence of special interest in lead area or equivalent.

Leadership

• Have the skills and experience to plan and chair meetings with multi-professional and multiple stakeholder involvement.

Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of health, care and local government landscape, and integrated care agenda.
• Knowledge and understanding of population health inequalities and how these impact people’s outcomes and experience of health and care provision within the place.

Experience

• Proven ability to engage people by the way they communicate and interact, including residents, patients and service users, their carers, and clinical and professional leaders.
• Working across boundaries and collaborative working, including with communities.

As we do not hold a Home office sponsorship license for visas, we are unable to process applications that would require a visa to work in the UK.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Name Nicola Feeney Job title Pharmacy and Optometry Specialist Commissioner Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07710152285