GP Collaborative Board Chair - One Care

Role Titel: GP Collaborative Board Chair

This position requires independence and is not available to anyone who is also a GPCB member or holds the same or similar position for another organisation within Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG), unless they resign this position.
Applicants must be from practices which subscribe to One Care

Background:

The GP Collaborative Board (GPCB) was established in 2020 to be the representative voice of general practice in planning and decision making in the wider health and social care system in BNSSG. It:

• Represents general practice at Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), Integrated Care System (ICS), and Integrated Care Board (ICB) level
• Ensures general practice expertise is included in the development of new system programmes
• Ratifies new patient pathways and strategies to advance patient care
• Ensures accurate and timely information flows to and from general practice
• Creates and funds new innovative programmes of work and projects

The Collaborative Board brings together all general practice leaders, including the LMC and our out of hours provider (BrisDoc) to provide the 24/7 general practice perspective in discussions with other system partners.

Job Purpose:

The Chair will lead and develop the GPCB to ensure it continues to be the collective and representative voice of provider general practice within the BNSSG Healthier Together health and care system. The Chair runs the monthly GPCB meetings and, alongside the CEO of One Care (the GP Federation), represents and advocates for the GPCB in the ICS. The chair will also be invited to become a non-voting member of the One Care Board.

One Care, the GP federation that supports BNSSG practices, provides the infrastructure for GPCB business, programmes and projects. The GPCB Chair will work closely with the One Care executive, support teams and the One Care Chair to coordinate the successful functioning of the GPCB.

The person appointed will be instrumental in:

• Bringing BNSSG general practice together to enable it to have a strong vision and voice in the development of strategic health and care plans
• Providing inclusive leadership that reaches out to and engages all partners, with a particular focus on building relationships within general practice and ICS leaders
• Working with general practice to develop the strategy and direction of the GPCB, and communicating about this clearly and effectively
• Ensuring the GPCB is appropriately seen and heard at key system meetings.
• Representing the views of its members and cascading key messages from system meetings with GPCB members
• Influencing partner organisations to engage with the GPCB and recognise the opportunities the GPCB offers the wider system
• Chairing the monthly GPCB meetings effectively, ensuring a high quality of debate, robust decision making and clear oversight
• Contributing to the prioritisation of the agenda and supporting governance processes

The responsibilities and nature of the role will be reviewed annually

Application requirements:

If you are interested in applying for the position, please submit by email your CV or biography together with an expression of interest (EoI), explaining your motivations for applying for the role and any relevant information supporting your application.
Completed applications with CVs and EoI should be sent by email to recruitment@onecare.org.uk

Please find the attached for Job Desciption and Candidate Information Pack.

Closing Date: Midnight, 1 November 2024