Band 8c Clinical Lead - Bristol

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.

To ensure that safeguarding processes are in place to protect children and young people, parents andcarers and the wider public.

The post holder will also need to have the following safeguarding core competencies:Will require level 3 specialist safeguarding training;Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of child maltreatmentDemonstrates 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, and understanding of what constitutes child maltreatment, to identify any signs of child abuse or neglect.

Acts as an effective advocate for the child or young person.

Recognises the potential impact of a parents/carers physical and mental health on the wellbeing of a child or young person.

Clear about own and colleagues roles, responsibilities and professional boundaries

Able to refer, as appropriate, to role to social care if a safeguarding/child protection concern is identified.

Documents safeguarding/child protection concerns in order to be able to inform the relevant staff and agencies as necessary, maintains appropriate record keeping and differentiates between fact and opinion.

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 informs the 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.

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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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

AWP Bybrook Lodge

Blackberry Hill

Bristol

BS161EG

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)