People are our key asset and the continuous learning, development and nurturing of both existing and future talent is key to our success.
It is important that people fit the jobs that we will need to fill in the future and different people will be talented in different ways. It is essential that all our people are able to realise and apply their talent for the benefit of not only themselves, but also our collective organisations across Health and Social Care and who are committed to high quality, compassionate and inclusive care to patients and citizens.
Across our CCGs and ICS footprint our 1600 + board level leaders are colleagues who have led our organisations for many years and have achieved so much for patients and colleagues. It is crucial that where possible we retain our talented leaders and their experience and knowledge to ensure the future success of ICSs.
Irrespective of where an individual’s career focus rests, we are passionate and committed to fostering long term career stability despite a change in NHS landscape, and providing support when it matters in a way that makes a difference for the person.
Supporting ICS transition to ICBs using a talent-centred approach
Our ICB talent approach has been co-created through regional collaboration with CCGs, systems and other stakeholders in the North East and Yorkshire. In partnership with trade unions, NHS England and NHS Improvement Regional Talent Teams, ICS HR Directors, National Transition Partnership and NHS England and NHS Improvement HR and OD leads, it has been further developed to form a national approach.
The overall aims are to support our NHS people and mitigate the loss of leadership and professional talent during the transition.
Find out more information on our available resources at Supporting ICS transition to ICBs using a talent-centred approach – Leadership Academy)
For more information about current advertised opportunities for Chief Executives of the ICS’s Integrated Care Boards, click here.
Executive Suite
The Executive Suite – Our NHS People has a range of offers to support the thinking and wellbeing of senior and executive leaders, including those affected by this change. In addition to wellbeing offers such as 1:1 psychological support, there are blogs, development programmes and thought leading webinars to support you in refreshing and sustaining your leadership during this transition.
They are designed to support you to remain a resilient leader and continue to thrive in your current role whilst looking ahead to the next.
Our development support includes
- Access to career development resources
- Drop in Common Rooms for CCG AOs and ICS Leads and CCG and ICS Chairs
- Chief Executive Development Network
- Specific CCG/ICS reflective spaces for all ICS Leads and Chairs; Accountable Officers, Chairs and Executives/Governing Board Members from CCGs
Career development portal
Aimed specifically at senior leaders in health and care, our online career development resource portal brings together written tutorials, videos, and tools to help support your career management, allowing you to reflect on your career, opportunities, and next steps.
This would support any talent and career conversations you may be having as part of this transition.
Drop-in Common Rooms
These common rooms will provide you with a short (90 minute) online network meetings for a maximum of 15 participants. Each confidential meeting provides an opportunity to connect with colleagues, to make sense of and compare experience, to refresh and focus on whatever feels important in a context of mutual support.
If you are a ICS Lead or Chair or a CCG Governing Body member and would be interested in attending a future Common Room please e-mail your expression of interest to [email protected]
Chief Executive Development Network (CEDN)
The Chief executive development network – Our NHS People is a network of both established and new Chief Executives/Accountable Officers. Membership naturally changes over time, meaning that every conversation is as different as its participants.
- CEDN content is member-led, meaning that our offers can be agile, responding to and grounded in Chief Executives/Accountable Officers’ changing realities
- The Network offers both development and peer connection. Members tell us that they particularly value the opportunity to meet and interact with peers nationally rather than only regionally.
- CEDN is open to both established and new Chief Executives/Accountable Officers. Experienced Chief Executives/Accountable Officers often mention how they value the opportunity to continue their development, as so much is new even for them as health and care move towards integration.
- The Network actively welcomes and continues to provide dedicated transitions support for newly appointed, first time Chief Executives/Accountable Officers.
Our current development support offer includes:
- Themed sessions with expert speakers leading to facilitated communities of practice
- Facilitated, mutually informative and developmental conversations with senior colleagues at national level to build their network whilst informing national thinking.
- Offers for specific members of the Chief Executive/Accountable Officer population such as ICS Chief Executives and separately CCG Accountable Officers
- Topic specific offers such as ‘Getting Ready for the White Paper’, ‘Beyond the Fit and Proper Person Test’, ‘New Models of Care’ and Exploring the Chair and Chief Executive Relationship’
- Developmental networking opportunities
- Access to online Chief Executive/Accountable Officer resources
- Drop-in Chief Executive/Accountable Officer common rooms
- Transitions coaching for ‘new to role’ Chief Executives for up to two years
Reflective spaces for all ICS Leads and Chairs; Accountable Officers, Chairs and Executives/Governing Body Members from CCGs
You will have a particular role and set of responsibilities to shape the future health and care landscape. This reflective space will offer you a range of development opportunities, both as a whole group and also for you personally look and make sense of/operationalise your newly designated systems.
Future dates for spaces will be set based on demand and focused on support required by you. If you are interested in attending a reflective space please e-mail your expression of interest to [email protected]
Events and seminars
Where possible, recordings of the events that have taken place will be available on the Executive Suite
Action for Change Webinars
Designed to catalyse collective action on current health and care priorities, the offer comprises an expert seminar series supported by half-day action learning sets, which will be role specific and will meet three times over six months to translate ideas into practice.
- For “The Politics of Leading Integration” previous seminars have taken place with Jon Rouse, City Director, City of Stoke on Trent; Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester; and Raj Jain, Chief Executive of Northern Care Alliance NHS Group with Local Authority colleagues
- Health Inequalities
- comprising seminars and three theme related facilitated action learning sets. In light of the clear impact of inequalities on the incidence and outcomes of Covid 19, on 3 March 2021, Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity ;a world-leading thinker on inequalities; talked about the radical leadership practice required to influence for health equalities.
On the 22 November 2021 Executive leaders, CEOs, Chairs, NEDs and Executive Directors, across health and care were given the opportunity to ground their thinking into practical application around the subjects of homelessness, early years – getting off to a good start with health and wellbeing, housing – where this sits in the population health agenda, the ‘well’ and how they can stay well, access to health and care services for all and creating a stakeholder collation across your ICS. In the session there was a chance to hear from others what they are already doing in these areas – and other areas you are interested in and do some forward thinking about our role as Chief Executives and how this work can be accelerated into 2022/23.
To register to join a seminar please click on this link Join an AfC themed webinar – Our NHS People – please note from time to time, some seminars will only be open to Chief Executives/Accountable Officers and Chairs but many are open wider so please do check the Executive Suite website.
Signposted bite sized learning
Relevant and curated bite-sized learning and resources related to current appropriate subjects and themes.