Associate Medical Director for Mental Health

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is a consultant level appointment working for WHSSC.

The post offers hybrid home office working but will involve travel to clinical services in providers throughout Wales, to English Healthcare Provider Trusts, and for liaison work with Commissioners in England and Scotland as well as senior medical and pharmaceutical colleagues in Welsh Government.

The post-holder will be expected to be able to cope with multiple and changing demands and to meet tight deadlines. A high level of intellectual rigour, negotiation, motivational skills and flexibility are required to deal with highly complex medical issues in order to advise and make recommendations regarding services and patient care. A high level of tact and diplomacy is required and an ability to understand other cultures to enable effective working across organisational boundaries and influencing without authority.

The post-holder will be required to have expert knowledge of the organisation of health care services in Wales, and of the contribution that medical leadership and management can make to commissioning health and social care services.

The post-holder will provide expert medical advice and leadership to support and inform an evidence-based approach within ethical frameworks for providing and developing high quality equitable services.

A key function of the AMD role will be to provide clinical leadership and advice to the Programme Team for Mental Health Services. This role will include attendance at the monthly Programme Team meetings as well as all relevant local and national meetings and groups that require clinical membership. The post holder will work closely with the Planning Manager for the relevant programme team to agree priorities and actions and to provide clinical input where necessary to support delivery.

The post-holder will work with the Medical Director WHSSC to provide medical support for the Individual Patient Funding Request process operated by WHSSC including the All Wales IPFR Panel.

Working closely with relevant staff in the Medical Directorate, WHSSC as well as Public Health Wales, and with all other disciplines in WHSSC, s/he will develop and utilise information and intelligence systems to underpin medical/clinical action across disciplines and organisations, leading collation of clinical evidence and interpretation of relevant data.

S/he will undertake appropriate research and audit subject to job plan agreement on priorities for action.

The post-holder will be expected to be accountable on a day to day basis reporting to the Medical Director of WHSSC, and s/he will co-ordinate and provide expert medical advice to WHSSC in support of the commissioning and development of specialised services in Wales including clinical policies and outcome measures for quality monitoring.

The post-holder will provide clinical advice to the Mental Health Services Programme Team across the full range of specialised services contributing to the development of commissioning strategies and supporting service reviews. S/he will also be expected to attend National Groups/Networks as the clinical lead for WHSSC.

The post-holder will be expected to develop excellent working relationships with the range of organisations which have an interest in the commissioning of specialised services: the Welsh Government, Local Health Boards and NHS Trusts as well as AWMSG/AWTTC.

The post-holder will be expected to develop excellent working relationships with a wide range of medical staff across Welsh Health Boards as well as clinical services in England for specialised and designated highly specialised services. As none of these staff will be line managed by the post-holder, much of the work of the post-holder will be dependent upon his/her ability to manage a large number of relationships in a complex non-hierarchical structure.

A detailed work plan will be drawn up in consultation with the WHSSC Managing Director and Medical Director upon appointment, drawing on the key tasks outlined in this Job Description.

Person Specification

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Essential

• Qualified Medical professional

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• Unblemished registration with GMC

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• Must be or have been a practising GP or worked at Medical Consultant level

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• Clinical Governance systems including quality improvement and quality assurance

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• Medical Management and Leadership

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Desirable

• Ability to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear sense of direction and vision to a wide audience

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Desirable

• Demonstrable leadership and ambassadorial skills with an ability to demonstrate a flexible leadership style.

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• Ability to speak Welsh

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

WHSSC

Unit G 1, The Willowford, Main Avenue, Treforest Industrial Estate, Treforest

Pontypridd

CF37 5YL

Employer's website

https://joinctm.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)