Job summary
Clinical Director, Band 8c Fixed Term - 3 years, 16 hours per week
The clinical director will provide clinical leadership and expertise in the directorate to support the delivery of effective and high-quality services in the Directorate in line with the services and Trust Quality and Annual plans and priorities. The Clinical Director in liaison with the Associate Clinical Director will implement and lead the directorate's quality agenda.
Main duties of the job
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Clinical lead responsibilities
- Quality and safety improvement lead
- Service development and evaluation
- Clinical practice improvement and training strategy
- Audit, Service Evaluation and R&D
- Corporate responsibilities as a member of the directorate senior management team (SMT) and Trust clinical director team
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Provide leadership to clinicians and ensure that they are engaged with Trust and directorate priorities, development of effective care pathways, service line reporting and other service improvement initiatives and practices adopted by the Trust and directorate.
2. Lead as required on recruitment and retention; implementation of new professional contracts and requirements including the management of leave of staff across professions, with support as may be necessary, from heads of profession, human resources and managers.
3. Contribute or as necessary lead on any staffing reviews that may inform Trust wide staffing reviews. These include the deployment of staff to ensure equity; analysis of shortfalls and re-configuration of services to address such deficits and the modernisation agenda; provision of specialist clinics based on local need and other necessary developments.
4. Undertake or support the appraisal and review of clinical roles and contributions (job planning) for each senior clinician bearing in mind the directorate and Trust annual service plan, quality plan and key performance indicators.
5. Ensure supervision at all levels for clinicians and management of poor performance with the Trust lead for the profession. Where necessary, to ensure that appropriate supportive training is made available to address identified deficits.
6. Support all levels of clinicians to meet the requirements for clinically effective and evidence-based practice in line with Trust/national guidelines.
7. Ensure as far as is possible and in collaboration with heads of professions and managers that all clinical staff satisfactorily complete their mandatory training in a timely fashion.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Provide leadership to clinicians and ensure that they are engaged with Trust and directorate priorities, development of effective care pathways, service line reporting and other service improvement initiatives and practices adopted by the Trust and directorate.
2. Lead as required on recruitment and retention; implementation of new professional contracts and requirements including the management of leave of staff across professions, with support as may be necessary, from heads of profession, human resources and managers.
3. Contribute or as necessary lead on any staffing reviews that may inform Trust wide staffing reviews. These include the deployment of staff to ensure equity; analysis of shortfalls and re-configuration of services to address such deficits and the modernisation agenda; provision of specialist clinics based on local need and other necessary developments.
4. Undertake or support the appraisal and review of clinical roles and contributions (job planning) for each senior clinician bearing in mind the directorate and Trust annual service plan, quality plan and key performance indicators.
5. Ensure supervision at all levels for clinicians and management of poor performance with the Trust lead for the profession. Where necessary, to ensure that appropriate supportive training is made available to address identified deficits.
6. Support all levels of clinicians to meet the requirements for clinically effective and evidence-based practice in line with Trust/national guidelines.
7. Ensure as far as is possible and in collaboration with heads of professions and managers that all clinical staff satisfactorily complete their mandatory training in a timely fashion.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Qualifications - An appropriate professional qualification
- Experience - Minimum four years' experience in a relevant professional role, at a recognised senior level
- Knowledge - Excellent analytical and judgement skills, including ability to consider and manage the strategic, political and operational factors within highly complex situations
- Skills - Comprehensive understanding of clinical excellence in mental health services
- Abilities - Highly developed negotiation/interpersonal and relationship skills
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Qualifications - An appropriate professional qualification
- Experience - Minimum four years' experience in a relevant professional role, at a recognised senior level
- Knowledge - Excellent analytical and judgement skills, including ability to consider and manage the strategic, political and operational factors within highly complex situations
- Skills - Comprehensive understanding of clinical excellence in mental health services
- Abilities - Highly developed negotiation/interpersonal and relationship skills
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
