Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Director for Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative

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Job summary

This post is for the Clinical Director Role within the Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative. This would be a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist with oversight of Inpatient Adults with Eating Disorders in Kent/Sussex.

The Clinical Director role will have opportunities to input to changes on national and regional level.

This role is pivotal in building and facilitate relationships/partnerships and bring clinicians together to drive innovation whilst putting patients at the centre of all we do within the collaborative.

Base would be flexible across our footprint. A Trust base will be agreed on appointment.

We welcome applications from existing SPFT staff and from those from outside the organisation. There are opportunities to combine the clinical director role with a clinical consultant psychiatrist role available within Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This will be agreed at appointment. Please note, there is also opportunity to work within our partner organisation within Kent and we would be happy to support discussions on this.

Main duties of the job

This role will play an important part of providingclinical perspective to commissioning function of the Provider Collaborative for Eating disorder adults from Kent and Sussex.

The post holder will need to monitor and inform regional and national developments relating to Adult Eating Disorders, especially coeval bed capacity changes, current patient experience and clinical and functional outcomes

With the Programme Director, partner organisations and stakeholders, scope the need for specialist services (whether inpatient or community) pursuant to the aims of the Collaborative

With the Programme Director, mediate any disputes between the partners and stakeholders, taking a lead when these disputes involve clinical matters.

Establish and monitor pre-admission, admission, bed occupancy, discharge and re-admission data collection and management systems for Kent/Sussex.

Assist to develop standardised admissions criteria across the Kent/Sussex footprint for adults who need admission to hospital

Membership of Partnership Board and Operational Board and attendance at meetings.

The role is likely to involve attendance at events outside the organisation so the post holder will need to ensure they maintain their knowledge of national best practice and keep abreast of developments in the national Provider Collaborative process.

About us

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a large NHS organisation that offers clinical and social care services to children, young people, adults and older adults, with emotional and mental health problems or learning disabilities. Services are provided to the people of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex with Children & Young People's Services provided across Sussex and Hampshire. The Trust operates as part of a wider network of health and social care and works in partnership with both statutory and non-statutory agencies. The Trust benefits from a thriving Sussex-wide psychiatry training scheme where Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex provide foundation, GP, core and higher trainees. We work closely with Brighton and Sussex Medical School; a partnership between the Universities of Brighton and Sussex. In 2015 we became a member of the Association of UK University Hospitals, the representative body for university hospitals with major teaching and research interests across the UK and internationally. Our vision is to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve. The clinical strategy and organisational strategy we have developed underpin this by providing frameworks to enable sustained improvements in the quality of care we provide. In January 2018 the Trust was awarded an overall rating of Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and was assessed as Outstanding for caring. This was maintained in February 2019.

Date posted

29 September 2023

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£93,666 to £126,281 a year PA pro rata. Plus additional responsibility payment

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

354-CO-21251

Job locations

Trust Headquarters

Arundal Road

Worthing

BN13 3EP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Serve as a clinical advisor to partner services that offer community and inpatient psychiatric care.
Advise on hospital admission avoidance plans for adults with eating disorders at risk of both psychiatric and general hospital admission.
Help develop and implement discharge plans for adults admitted to hospital from Kent and Sussex.
Assess Adults admitted to hospital whose clinical progress appears to be stalled or whose complexity results in delayed progress
Involved in urgent Mental Health Act assessments as required
Provide clinical accountability for decision-making on admissions, particularly where proposed admissions are at the edges of standardised admission criteria and where Adults have specialist needs
Chair Kent/Sussex weekly clinical activity panels focusing on the aforementioned
Provide clinical leadership and support to Provider Collaborative case managers involved in admission decision-making

Job description

Job responsibilities

Serve as a clinical advisor to partner services that offer community and inpatient psychiatric care.
Advise on hospital admission avoidance plans for adults with eating disorders at risk of both psychiatric and general hospital admission.
Help develop and implement discharge plans for adults admitted to hospital from Kent and Sussex.
Assess Adults admitted to hospital whose clinical progress appears to be stalled or whose complexity results in delayed progress
Involved in urgent Mental Health Act assessments as required
Provide clinical accountability for decision-making on admissions, particularly where proposed admissions are at the edges of standardised admission criteria and where Adults have specialist needs
Chair Kent/Sussex weekly clinical activity panels focusing on the aforementioned
Provide clinical leadership and support to Provider Collaborative case managers involved in admission decision-making

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.

Desirable

Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.

Desirable

Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

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.

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