Job summary
- Are you an experienced clinician who has a detailed knowledge of either primary, community or acute care?
- Courageous, Resilient, Authentic and Inspirational leader who is not frightened to challenge the status quo?
- Enthusiastic about the transformation and integration of community services to offer the best care to the residents of North East Essex?
- Understands the "Wider Determinants of Health and Inequalities of Access"?
- Able to work with and support our NEE residents to access what they need, not what "we" think they may need?
You will be offered development and management support in your role and work closely with our Associate Directors
Main duties of the job
- Work with co-Divisional Director in a job share arrangement
- Provide exceptional leadership across the division and across the wider NEE Alliance particularly relating to the integration with Primary Care, Mental Health, Social Care and Voluntary sector colleagues
- Act as an ambassador for the Trust, ensuring the positive development of NEE Live Well Programme including promotion of vertical and horizontal integration of community focused services
- To shape and support the development of the Divisional, ESNEFT and NEE Alliance strategy including the delivery of divisional priorities and objectives
- To work closely with both the Chief Medical Officer and the Director of Operations to develop the division's operational clinical services
- In collaboration with clinical colleagues and service leads in primary, community and acute care pathways, ensure the highest levels of quality care (patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness) across NEE and seek to continually learn and improve
- To create a patient safety culture, ensure that appropriate governance arrangements are in place enabling effective management of complaints, incidents and risk management, audits and learning to improve patient case. This will include appropriate systems to comply with current guidance in relation to the Healthcare Commission, NHS protect, NICE etc
About us
One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
Find out about our new Elective Orthopaedic Centre
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Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide visible leadership to the clinical teams within the Division and wider NEE Alliance, promote continual improvement and transformation in quality, performance and delivery of integrated services
- Lead the Clinical Leadership team to ensure a framework of safe, caring practice supported by research and innovation
- Create an environment where a wide range of specialist knowledge and expertise is drawn upon to develop the skills of all medical staff within the Division and wider NEE Alliance
- Inspire confidence in your clinical teams by taking prompt, high level decisions where the situation may be life threatening
- Implement, monitor and review measurable accountable models of working that sustain high standards of safe, caring patient care, including reporting on clinical outcomes
- Review national and local policies and assess local service delivery against these - develop and implement action plans with the operational service providers to ensure service models meet recommendations and standards
- Develop patient pathways with clinical staff and colleagues in primary care, which deliver best practice and make progress towards achievement of the Live Well Programme, wait time standards and metrics require
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide visible leadership to the clinical teams within the Division and wider NEE Alliance, promote continual improvement and transformation in quality, performance and delivery of integrated services
- Lead the Clinical Leadership team to ensure a framework of safe, caring practice supported by research and innovation
- Create an environment where a wide range of specialist knowledge and expertise is drawn upon to develop the skills of all medical staff within the Division and wider NEE Alliance
- Inspire confidence in your clinical teams by taking prompt, high level decisions where the situation may be life threatening
- Implement, monitor and review measurable accountable models of working that sustain high standards of safe, caring patient care, including reporting on clinical outcomes
- Review national and local policies and assess local service delivery against these - develop and implement action plans with the operational service providers to ensure service models meet recommendations and standards
- Develop patient pathways with clinical staff and colleagues in primary care, which deliver best practice and make progress towards achievement of the Live Well Programme, wait time standards and metrics require
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Clinical Qualification to a post-graduate level
- Evidence of continuous professional and personal development
- Good experience of a clinical leadership role which has engaged multi-disciplinary teams to improve quality, standards and staff and patient experience
- Demonstrate understanding of leadership and people engagement.
- Ability to communicate, influence, persuade and negotiate at all levels
- Highly analytical and numerate and able to apply these to judgements and logical argument
Desirable
- Leadership qualification
- Understanding of Health and Care commissioning process.
- Understanding of Health Outcomes, Vertical and Horizontal Integration
- Wider Determinants of Health and Inequalities
- Significant experience of Primary, Community or Acute care provision
- Evidence of extensive (and successful) quality, people and financial experience.
- Experience of the understanding of the importance of developing and delivering business plans to support corporate objectives
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Clinical Qualification to a post-graduate level
- Evidence of continuous professional and personal development
- Good experience of a clinical leadership role which has engaged multi-disciplinary teams to improve quality, standards and staff and patient experience
- Demonstrate understanding of leadership and people engagement.
- Ability to communicate, influence, persuade and negotiate at all levels
- Highly analytical and numerate and able to apply these to judgements and logical argument
Desirable
- Leadership qualification
- Understanding of Health and Care commissioning process.
- Understanding of Health Outcomes, Vertical and Horizontal Integration
- Wider Determinants of Health and Inequalities
- Significant experience of Primary, Community or Acute care provision
- Evidence of extensive (and successful) quality, people and financial experience.
- Experience of the understanding of the importance of developing and delivering business plans to support corporate objectives
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).
