A Walsall Together Partnership Board, with senior representation from each partner organisation, meets on a monthly basis to provide strategic oversight and operational coordination for the services that sit within the partnership.
All organisations have signed an alliance agreement which sets out how they will work together to deliver sustainable, effective and efficient services and improved health and wellbeing outcomes.
The Group Director of Place leads a Joint planning group who provide oversight of the integrated commissioning and transformation plan and Programme Management Office who are responsible for overseeing the day to day transformation, delivery and co-ordination of services.
A Clinical and Professional Leadership Group is chaired by the Director of Public Health. They provide strategic clinical direction, assurance on the model of care as well as oversee and ensure effective engagement to enable the integration of services to work. This group also coordinates the selection of clinical pathway redesign based on population health needs.
A Place Integrated Commissioning Committee (PICC) sits within the Adult Social Care, Public Health and Hub Directorate for the Council, with accountability to the Strategic Commissioning Committee in the Integrated Care Board (ICB). It is the agreed committee for joint commissioning discussions between the Council and the Integrated Care Board. PICC provides the formal governance for integrated commissioning, providing strategic commissioning leadership in relation to the health and social care responsibilities, and ensuring the alignment of commissioning for services in scope of Walsall Together.
A Joint Planning Group (JPG) is jointly accountable to the Partnership Board and the PICC. The group provides oversight of the integrated commissioning and transformation plan and support the transition to new ways of working with increased responsibilities for commissioning inside the partnership.
A Workforce Group is accountable to the partnership board. It gains an understanding of workforce opportunities and pressures across all partner organisations and supports initiatives to improve the recruitment retention and quality of the health and care workforce from a partnership perspective. It enables those furthest from employment in securing a good quality and meaningful work-related activity or employment, given the links to better health and wellbeing.
The establishment of a Resilient Communities Strategic Group is taking place made up of a strategic group that looks at community resilience for health and wellbeing. It will give specific focus to the contribution of Voluntary, Community, Faith, Social Enterprise, social housing and wider communities in the partnership and consider the scope of work linked to wider determinants of health.
