East London NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Director
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ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job Overview
Clinical Director will provide strong clinical leadership across the collaborative working closely with the Clinical Director for Transformation and the Programme Director. The role will promote the development of clinical practice across NCEL CAMHS, ensuring safe and effective practice, systems of clinical involvement and provide assurance of quality to the ELFT and NCEL CAMHS Provider Collaborative governance system. The post holder will need to be creative and flexible as you will participate in the future development of the Provider Collaborative.
Main duties of the job
- The NCEL PC has a clinical team supporting decision making about admissions to in-patient and day services and to Home Treatment Teams.
- The team also maintain quality oversight following admissions and work to facilitate appropriate discharge plans and community engagement.
- Clinical Director will support high quality decision making, maintaining clinical flow and ensuring young people receive the most appropriate service for their needs.
- The post holder will provide senior medical advice to the clinical team and support clinical escalation processes when necessary.
- Working with the Head of Quality you will ensure the effective operation of the Clinical team, help develop new partnerships, pathways and service models.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Clinical Director will work alongside the Clinical Director for Transformation in delivering the clinical strategy and improvement plans for the development of quality across the NCEL CAMHS Provider Collaborative. This includes fostering strong relationships with stakeholders and providers to support development of clinical practice across NCEL CAMHS, promote clinical quality and development of clinical pathways in line with the service user set aims of the collaborative.
The post holder will lead the Clinical Leadership Group (CLG) and sub-groups, working with clinical colleagues from across the collaborative to standardise practice and reduce variation where clinically beneficial.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience
- Further professional qualification
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Consultant Professional
- Previous experience as a Lead Clinician within professional group
- Experience of increasing staff engagement and motivation to improve performance
- Experience of leading service and/or transformational change
- Experience of managing complex problems
Desirable criteria
- Significant senior experience in an NHS Trust, operating at Senior Management Level
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Knowledge
Essential Criteria
- Clinical expert, with extensive knowledge of contemporary clinical services and national policy.
- Demonstrable track record of delivering evidenced based practice and utilizing research in practice.
- Sound understanding of the principles of QI and its application.
- Demonstrable track record of operational performance improvement
- Demonstrates effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders
Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge, problem solving and improvement methodologies
- Ability to influence, negotiate and persuade regarding complex or sensitive issues
- Ability to operate effectively in clinical academic operational environment with multiple stakeholders
- Motivational skills to lead staff to deliver operational objectives and standards
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including verbal, written and presentation skills, together with excellent listening skills including facilitation
- Advanced MS Office
Attributes
Essential Criteria
- Act as a clinical leader and role model across the service
- Ability to enable and influence multi-professional team working and problem solving
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively
- High energy levels, an innovative approach and ability to inspire and enthuse others.
- The intellect and interpersonal skills to command the respect of all staff as well as external stakeholders.
- Evidence of holding to a clear strategy and set of values while responding appropriately to short-term challenges and priorities.
- Proactive, versatile and problem-solving approach. Ability to seek and exploit opportunities to advance objectives.
- Robust and persistent in the pursuit of objectives and maintaining personal credibility
- Able to prioritise and work under pressure
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
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We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other Reasons To Apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £8,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
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What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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