Senior Clinical Lead GP

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Within these overall goals, the role of Senior Clinical Lead is as follows:

Clinical Leadership

• Be responsible for the delivery of the SPC clinical strategy
• Deliver high professional standards across SPC and drive continuous professional development and best practice
• Lead and develop high quality care and patient safety across the practices. Be a point of contact for the practice lead GPs
• Develop and implement strong clinical governance, clinical risk and patient safety strategies, systems and processes
• Work with practice management and practice Lead GPs to visibly lead the wider practice teams including regular attendance at practice meetings
• Professional lead to support career development of GPs including, clinical supervision, appraisals and PDRs
• Ensure safe clinical staffing is delivered and support the recruitment and retention within clinical services
• Play a key role in service improvement planning for the future and development of the clinical strategy.
• Develop and maintain active working relationships with, SCFT, PCNs and the ICB
• Support the development and sign off of clinical policies/procedures as required
• Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of QOF, LCS, IIF and PCN income.
• Develop future income streams for SPC, including influence of policy in PCN areas and neighborhood teams
• Support the quality assurance agenda at practice meetings in partnership with practice Lead GPs, ensuring that practices work in line with the SPC Clinical Strategy
• Work collaboratively with the Lead GP to support the individual practice management operational teams and ACP clinical leads
• Work with the senior team to deliver key improvement initiatives
• Provide leadership on medical professional standards
• Develop and support delivery of GP training across SPC practices
• Develop and support delivery of research across SPC practices

Clinical Quality/Risk/Safety/outcomes

• Support the clinical functions of service quality, safety and outcomes including clinical audit
• Lead and implement the seven pillars of clinical governance throughout the Organisation
• Support serious patient safety investigations and risk, including responsibility for investigating high level or complex complaints as required.
• Lead on delivery of personalised care and tackling service inequities in access, experience and outcomes
• Ensure that the systems exist to embed evidence based clinical practice into the service (e.g. implementation of NICE guidance, record management)
• Take the overall lead for review of clinical aspects of Patient Safety Investigation Incident reviews, ensuring that learning points are captured, documented, actioned and embedded into practice
• Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of CQC readiness
• Ensure that the systems exist to embed patient safety across the service
• Working with the Lead GPs and Educational Lead to support practice education meetings and ensure that clinical staff are made aware of changes to clinical guidelines and policy
• Be the Caldicott Guardian for Sussex Primary Care

Supervision

• You will be responsible for delivery of clinical supervision and appraisals to the Lead GPs
• Provide supervision in line with SPC Clinical Leadership model

Experience

Essential

• Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary and skill mixed team environment
• Experience of working to achieve excellent performance within Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF) and LCS delivery
• A passion for healthcare
• Professional supervision of GPs and the clinical team, including addressing professional performance issues
• Motivated and committed to developing the knowledge and skills required for the role and for ongoing professional development
• Delivery of high standards of patient safety, managing clinical risk and complaints
• Primary care prevention and screening services
• Supporting Clinical Team development and training
• Delivery of audit and quality improvement
• Organised and efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork
• Time management being able to prioritise work and work under pressure
• Computer literacy
• Adaptability to change
• Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams
• Ability to work flexibly
• Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately
• Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Ability to work within the changing structures of the NHS and work to the requirements of other regulatory bodies
• Excellent communicator
• Work in line with practice systems and processes

Desirable

• Strategic thinker
• Tackling service inequities
• GP Training experience
• Primary Care research experience
• Understanding of Primary Care Provider CQC requirements
• Caldicott Guardian

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCGP Qualification
• Registered on the GMC GP Register with licence to practice
• On an NHS National performers list (England, Wales or Northern Ireland)

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).