Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Lead – Forensic Services

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Job summary

Are you passionate about clinical leadership, improving services and reducing health inequalities for patients using the forensic services. Then the Forensic services is eager to hear from you. Our vision is to provide outstanding specialist forensic mental health services across Leeds (Newsam Centre) and in York(Clifton House), as an employer of choice.

We are looking for a talented individual to clinically lead our Forensic services and join our established Leadership Team. This role will be pivotal to leading, enhancing and developing high quality, safe, effective, reliable, person-centred care across our services through a psychologically safe, inclusive, co-produced and collective leadership culture.

We aspire to outstanding clinical services that afford the very best experience of compassionate care to service users and their carers. We understand that to achieve this our staff need clinical leadership that creates a supportive and professionally rewarding environment in which to learn, develop and provide this high standard of care. This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate clinical leader to lead the clinical service to the next level of high quality care provision.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the Head of Operations, Head of Clinical Governance and our Clinical Director, you will be key in leading, delivering and supporting a journey of improvement across the whole of our Forensic Service. You will be responsible for ensuring robust governance and assurance systems and processes are embedded throughout the service and for promoting the principle that good governance is everybody's business and is essential for the delivery of high-quality care. You will strengthen and develop the evidence based, clinical pathways that the service provides, ensuring that there is a clear focus on co-production, service user and carer involvement and staff engagement and that this is at the heart of the service and its strategic development.

The Forensic Senior Leadership Team are actively involved in strategic developments within the West Yorkshire ICS and Humber Coast and Vale ICS.

Candidates must clearly demonstrate how they meet the requirements included within the Job Description and Person Specification. This is especially relevant in the areas of recent experience and knowledge in leading at a senior leadership level and working clinically within secure care.

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the team bankstaffingdepartment.lypft@nhs.net

Date posted

10 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£70,417 to £81,138 a year Per Annum Pro Rata (or Consultant Grade)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

173-74623-FOR

Job locations

Clifton House & The Newsam Centre

York

YO30 5RA

Job description

Job responsibilities

A leadership focus on quality improvement and close engagement with the Trusts approach to continuous improvement
Leadership of and active contribution to robust clinical governance, quality assurance and quality / service planning
Leading and contributing to the delivery of visionary, ambitious service development in line with the Trust ambition to provide outstanding clinical services.
Adherence to all service and professional regulatory requirements including quality and equality impact assessment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A leadership focus on quality improvement and close engagement with the Trusts approach to continuous improvement
Leadership of and active contribution to robust clinical governance, quality assurance and quality / service planning
Leading and contributing to the delivery of visionary, ambitious service development in line with the Trust ambition to provide outstanding clinical services.
Adherence to all service and professional regulatory requirements including quality and equality impact assessment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Clinical qualification and registration

Experience

Essential

Recent clinical experience in working with forensic mental health population at a senior practitioner level.
Evidence and experience of providing high standards of clinical leadership at a senior level
Evidence and experience of engaging and involving service users, carers and staff in co-designing and improving services
Understanding and experience of developing psychologically safe and collective leadership cultures and learning systems to improve the delivery of high quality, safe, effective and person-centred health care services

Skills

Essential

Evidence of use of continuous improvement methodology, continuous / shared learning and acknowledgement of errors.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Clinical qualification and registration

Experience

Essential

Recent clinical experience in working with forensic mental health population at a senior practitioner level.
Evidence and experience of providing high standards of clinical leadership at a senior level
Evidence and experience of engaging and involving service users, carers and staff in co-designing and improving services
Understanding and experience of developing psychologically safe and collective leadership cultures and learning systems to improve the delivery of high quality, safe, effective and person-centred health care services

Skills

Essential

Evidence of use of continuous improvement methodology, continuous / shared learning and acknowledgement of errors.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Clifton House & The Newsam Centre

York

YO30 5RA

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Clifton House & The Newsam Centre

York

YO30 5RA

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)