Job summary
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust's primary purpose is to provide the highest quality mental healthcare that promotes recovery and hope.
Reporting to the Operational Manager, the Clinical Lead is responsible for all aspects of clinical delivery, quality, standards, regulation and compliance within their delivery unit.
The Clinical Lead is responsible for the delivery of the Trust's governance requirements within the service; establishing clear and effective mechanisms to ensure ownership of governance in all areas and at all levels.
The Clinical Lead will ensure that there are comprehensive and robust systems in place for gathering, monitoring, interpreting and disseminating information related to quality, ensuring that any subsequent learning is shared with relevant staff and embedded in practice.
Working as part of the management team, the Clinical Lead will ensure that:
- Practice is in line with professional and Trust standards and national guidance for best practice in treatment and care.
- A culture and ethos of quality is embedded in all aspects of service design, implementation, delivery and review.
- Clinical staff within the Delivery unit participate in planned and appropriate supervision, appraisal, training and professional development activities.
- Workforce plans ensure that practitioners are equipped with the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for assuring that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcome areas have been met in all registered activities in all sites for which the post holder is responsible for assuring that all Specialised services provide high quality and safe care to service users and families.
This involves implementing systems and processes which investigate each registered activity in each site against each outcome area and compile evidence to prove to the Board of Directors that the outcome has been achieved.
Where outcomes are not met the post holder is expected to put in place action to improve. The post holder will proactively seek and engage the support of the governance team in the Clinical Executive to gather information as required.
The post holder will build an understanding of and adhere to the CQC guidelines as well as the Trust's guidelines on the approach to maintaining CQC registration.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we are embarking on a clinical leadership review and therefore the reporting arrangements for this post may be subject to future change.
Job description
Job responsibilities
General duties:
The post holder will be responsible for assuring that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcome areas have been met in all registered activities in all sites for which the post holder is responsible. This involves implementing systems and processes which investigate each registered activity in each site against each outcome area and compile evidence to prove to the Board of Directors that the outcome has been achieved. Where outcomes are not met the post holder is expected to put in place action to improve. The post holder will proactively seek and engage the support of the governance team in the Clinical Executive to gather information as required. The post holder will build an understanding of and adhere to the CQC guidelines as well as the Trusts guidelines on the approach to maintaining CQC registration.
Key Result Areas:
Responsibility for Safe Services
In conjunction with the Operational Lead, the Clinical Lead is responsible for ensuring that there are effective governance and assurance mechanisms for identifying and appropriately managing clinical and other risks.
The Clinical Lead will promote a culture of incident reporting and ensure that there are robust systems in place for reporting, recording and learning from incidents.
The Clinical Lead will ensure that there are robust local systems in place for overseeing and managing patient safety incident response framework within the Locality.
The Clinical Lead will ensure jointly with the Trust Head of Health and Safety that there are robust health and safety and infection control processes in place in the service.
The post holder will also need to have the following safeguarding core competencies:
Will require level 3 specialist safeguarding training;
Demonstrates an understanding of appropriate referral mechanisms and information sharing
Know who to contact, where to access advice and how to report
Uses professional and clinical knowledge.
Clear about own and colleagues roles, responsibilities and professional boundaries
Shares appropriate and relevant information with other teams.
To ensure that there are robust processes in place locally to ensure the management of medicines.
To ensure practice is compliant with the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act legislation.
To ensure that any governance risks are identified and escalated to the appropriate risk registers. Responsibility for Effective Services
To resolve clinical issues which require expert clinical decision making such as working with multi-disciplinary teams to support care of service users with complex presentations.
Ensure that services deliver against best practice, national, Trust and local guidelines, including NICE Guidance, Technical Assessments etc., to ensure clinical excellence.
Ensure that services deliver against national, Trust and locally determined quality benchmarks, in the context of an extremely competitive tendering environment.
To strategically lead on the Trust IQ (information for quality) system and to ensure that the Locality inputs and exports data that informsthe locality, the Trust Board and external commissioners.
The Clinical Lead will be responsible for the local delivery of all actions arising from regulatory inspections such as CQC. The Clinical Lead will exercise effective and clear leadership, inspiring and supporting others to deliver quality services across the locality.
See attached job description for full details
Job description
Job responsibilities
General duties:
The post holder will be responsible for assuring that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcome areas have been met in all registered activities in all sites for which the post holder is responsible. This involves implementing systems and processes which investigate each registered activity in each site against each outcome area and compile evidence to prove to the Board of Directors that the outcome has been achieved. Where outcomes are not met the post holder is expected to put in place action to improve. The post holder will proactively seek and engage the support of the governance team in the Clinical Executive to gather information as required. The post holder will build an understanding of and adhere to the CQC guidelines as well as the Trusts guidelines on the approach to maintaining CQC registration.
Key Result Areas:
Responsibility for Safe Services
In conjunction with the Operational Lead, the Clinical Lead is responsible for ensuring that there are effective governance and assurance mechanisms for identifying and appropriately managing clinical and other risks.
The Clinical Lead will promote a culture of incident reporting and ensure that there are robust systems in place for reporting, recording and learning from incidents.
The Clinical Lead will ensure that there are robust local systems in place for overseeing and managing patient safety incident response framework within the Locality.
The Clinical Lead will ensure jointly with the Trust Head of Health and Safety that there are robust health and safety and infection control processes in place in the service.
The post holder will also need to have the following safeguarding core competencies:
Will require level 3 specialist safeguarding training;
Demonstrates an understanding of appropriate referral mechanisms and information sharing
Know who to contact, where to access advice and how to report
Uses professional and clinical knowledge.
Clear about own and colleagues roles, responsibilities and professional boundaries
Shares appropriate and relevant information with other teams.
To ensure that there are robust processes in place locally to ensure the management of medicines.
To ensure practice is compliant with the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act legislation.
To ensure that any governance risks are identified and escalated to the appropriate risk registers. Responsibility for Effective Services
To resolve clinical issues which require expert clinical decision making such as working with multi-disciplinary teams to support care of service users with complex presentations.
Ensure that services deliver against best practice, national, Trust and local guidelines, including NICE Guidance, Technical Assessments etc., to ensure clinical excellence.
Ensure that services deliver against national, Trust and locally determined quality benchmarks, in the context of an extremely competitive tendering environment.
To strategically lead on the Trust IQ (information for quality) system and to ensure that the Locality inputs and exports data that informsthe locality, the Trust Board and external commissioners.
The Clinical Lead will be responsible for the local delivery of all actions arising from regulatory inspections such as CQC. The Clinical Lead will exercise effective and clear leadership, inspiring and supporting others to deliver quality services across the locality.
See attached job description for full details
Person Specification
Essential criteria
Essential
- First level nursing (RMN, RNLD or RGN) or social work, AHP or psychology qualification
- Educated to masters level in older people's mental health care or equivalent gained through experience
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of contemporary older people's mental health clinical practice issues
- Significant consolidated experience in the speciality
- Extensive specialist knowledge and experience of clinical issues relating to complex/comorbid mental and physical health
- Demonstrable evidence of managing large scale change across multiple services
- Track record of effective leadership or service management
- Experience of developing nursing / service protocols
- Demonstrate understanding of risk assessment and management
- Experience and understanding of relating national policy and the health and social care guidelines to service development
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries working collaboratively with multi-professional teams / agencies in an effective way
- Evidence of regular participation / leading in research and audit
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Evidence of facilitation skills and the ability to teach from and through practice both internally and externally to the Trust
- Experienced supervisor
Person Specification
Essential criteria
Essential
- First level nursing (RMN, RNLD or RGN) or social work, AHP or psychology qualification
- Educated to masters level in older people's mental health care or equivalent gained through experience
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of contemporary older people's mental health clinical practice issues
- Significant consolidated experience in the speciality
- Extensive specialist knowledge and experience of clinical issues relating to complex/comorbid mental and physical health
- Demonstrable evidence of managing large scale change across multiple services
- Track record of effective leadership or service management
- Experience of developing nursing / service protocols
- Demonstrate understanding of risk assessment and management
- Experience and understanding of relating national policy and the health and social care guidelines to service development
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries working collaboratively with multi-professional teams / agencies in an effective way
- Evidence of regular participation / leading in research and audit
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Evidence of facilitation skills and the ability to teach from and through practice both internally and externally to the Trust
- Experienced supervisor
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).
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