Associate Director of Clinical Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

Do you have what it takes to become our Associate Director of Clinical Services. If successful you will be able to shape this new and exciting role at Woodbourne Priory Hospital. You will report to the Director of Clinical Services and form part of the Hospital Senior Management Team and, as such, contribute to our quality agenda to ensure care standards and regulatory requirements are fully satisfied. You will have overall responsibility for setting forward looking performance and quality standards, and reviewing existing processes through a suite of Indicators to track and monitor our progress. As well as, proactively and continually leading and embedding quality throughout the service and service lines with the support of our Quality and Compliance lead .

You will play a key part in developing and delivering Woodbournes Quality strategy, providing clinical leadership to the team. Alongside the Hospital Director and Director of Clinical Services you will support the hospital to ensure we are always ready for regulatory and contractual visits and inspections, to ensure the delivery of the highest level of clinical and therapeutic care.

Set in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston, close to Birmingham City centre, Priory Hospital Woodbourne is conveniently located for access to the West Midlands motorway network and with very good local public transport links.

Woodbourne hospital provides a diverse range of inpatient services. These include acute and psychiatric intensive care services for adults, Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, a specialist adult Eating Disorder service and a private addictions service. Across seven wards, our multi-disciplinary teams deliver personalised treatment programmes to our patients and have established an excellent reputation for providing the highest standards of care.

Job Purpose

Reporting into the Director of Clinical Services, the Associate Director of Clinical Services forms part of the Hospital Senior Management Team and, as such, contributes to ensuring quality indicators, care standards and regulatory requirements are fully satisfied. The role will have overall responsibility for setting forward looking performance and quality standards, and reviewing existing processes through a suite of Indicators to track and monitor site progress. This as well as, proactively and continually leading and embedding quality throughout the service and service lines.

Responsibilities

The Associate DoCS plays a key part in developing and delivering the Hospital Quality strategy, providing clinical leadership to the team. Alongside the HD & DoCs support site and in preparing for announced regulatory inspections, and Contractual requirements. Ensures delivery of the highest level of clinical and therapeutic care together with ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and current legislation, meeting quality standards and delivering against quality performance indicators. Leadership of the site Quality plans, Provides leadership, organisation and co-ordination to ensure effective clinical governance. Facilitating and supporting the implementation and maintenance of the overall site Governance. Working with wards, departments to facilitate the delivery of the Governance agenda and embed learning, evidence based practice and improvement in patient care. Providing advice on quality governance issues to all staff at site, promoting high standards of care and development of clinical practice. Point of contact for the Divisional Nursing and Quality Team Ensuring that all auditing and governance requirements are met at site including participation and compliance with the Priory Audit Calendar. Developing and contributing to the Governance Reports and relevant regular reports Attending, contributing, sharing outcomes and learnings from a number of forums including Clinical Governance, Health and Safety, Risk and Reducing Restrictive Practice. Have oversight of Hospital restrictive practices and implementing, auditing and review of strategies to reduce them. Facilitating compliance with the company incident and serious incident policy and support staff in the investigation of serious incidents in line with company policy. This includes support with 24/72hr notifications and TIRs. Leading investigations and reviews, including serious incidents, thematic reviews, safeguarding whistle blowing complaints, providing reports within the given timescales and in accordance with policies Supporting patient and staff safety culture and promoting learning from incidents and complaints by promoting sharing of learnings across site and, where appropriate, across the division. Supports the DoCS to ensures effective management of the relationship with Higher Education Institutes to support placements for all learners. Works with the Site Safeguarding Lead to ensure Safeguarding log is updated, appropriate levels of Level 4 trained safeguarding leads, and updated OP15 & 16 documentation Develops relationship with CQC inspection team to manage service enquiries in a timely and appropriate manner. Monitor Patient experience across the site and support changes to practice. Preparing the site for Regulatory body inspections and Internal Benchmarking and Health and Safety inspections. Support contractual compliance and providing quality reports to commissioners as required. Leading on the site quality improvement plan To maintain oversight of and implement actions from the service lines relevant to site As part of the Senior Management team will carry out on-call duties as directed by the Hospital Director. Contributes to the development of Priory policies, procedures, processes and initiatives Line management of the Quality Administrator You will be expected to cover the role of Ward Manager as and when required You will be expected to provide cover and support to the wider team and site as and when needed.

Knowledge / Education / Skills

Must be registered with either NMC or HCPC needs of the service will dictate if there is a preference Evidence of significant professional development in the related area of quality, audit and risk management. Strong report writing skills with the ability to present information (both financial and non-financial) and recommendations in a clear and logical way. Passionate about providing high quality care and the Patient and Carer Experience. Strong organisational skills, ability to prioritise and multi-task. Ability to handle ambiguity within the organisation. Demonstrated leadership and decision making skills essential. Detail oriented and a completer finisher Forward thinking , proactive and creative Passionate about continuous improvement with a demonstrated track record quality of improvement. The ability to deal with multiple issues simultaneously in a highly dynamic environment. Experience of leading, implementing and reviewing quality initiatives in a related environment. Experience of project management and quality reporting.

Experience

Experience working at a managerial level; within a health or social care setting with a minimum of 2 years Experience of implementing and reviewing quality initiatives in a related environment. Some experience of influencing and leading change Experience of project management and quality reporting.

Communication

Excellent verbal and non-verbal communications including awareness of impact of communication on desired audience. Can flex communication style dependant on situation and message.

For more information on this role or to arrange an informal visit please contact Rachel Blades (Director of clinical services) by email rachelblades@priorygroup.com or by telephone on 0121 434 4343.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse with active NMC PIN as a RMN or RNLD with 12 months post qualifying experience
• Relevant clinical experience
• Demonstrates a positive attitude and commitment to change, improvement and quality
• Ability to develop and use flexible and innovative approaches to practice.
• Excellent verbal , interpersonal and written communication skills

Desirable

• Experience in mental health services or a simlar setting

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.

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

Priory Healthcare

Address

Woodbourne Priory Hospital

Woodbourne Road

Harborne

Birmingham

B17 8BY

Employer's website

https://jobs.priorygroup.com/why-join-us/ (Opens in a new tab)