Band 8D Clinical Director - Callington Road Hospital, Bristol
Job Description
Job summary
Join Our Team as Clinical Director!
Location: Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Contract Type: Permanent Salary: Medical Grade or Agenda for Change Band 8D
About the Role:
Are you a passionate senior clinician looking to make a real impact? The Chief Operating Officer, Mathew Page, invites you to apply for the role of Clinical Director. Coming into this role, you'll be fully supported with supervision, appraisals, and a bespoke package tailored just for you.
Your Team:
You'll lead an experienced team, including:
Divisional Director of Nursing
Divisional Director of Operations
Divisional Medical Director
Together, you will drive:
Financial balance
Transformation initiatives
Organisational culture and strategy
Engagement within the wider system
About Our Division:
The Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire (West) Division provides all adult mental health services. We are currently transforming our community services in line with the Community Mental Health Framework, requiring significant leadership to ensure long-term quality.
Our integrated care system is aligned with the three local authority areas, and we are committed to building effective relationships to deliver what our communities need.
Join us in making a difference every day!
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
Operational clinical leadership of the division
Being a member of the extended executive team
Attending board committees as required
What we're looking for:
Mathew is searching for colleagues who are dedicated to improving individual patient care and can understand the broader impact of service changes.
The ideal candidate will:
Ensure the reduction of inequities in health outcomes through transformational change
Embrace system leadership and manage uncertainty
Promote a culture of coproduction
Have an eye for detail to ensure reliable board assurance
Who Can Apply?
Professionally registered colleagues from all Medicine, Health and Social Care backgrounds are welcome to apply. This full-time role includes clinical work appropriate to your background, negotiable up to one day per week.
Interested?
If this opportunity piques your interest, arrange an initial meeting with Mathew by emailing mathewpage@nhs.net
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationships
The CD will report directly to the Chief Operating Officer
The CD will receive professional supervision from the respective Clinical Executive
The CD will line manage the Divisional Directors of Nursing and Quality, Operations and Medical.
The CD will report directly to the Operational Delivery Group
The CD will attend and provide reports to Quality and Standards, Audit and Risk committees
The CD may attend the Professional Cabinet, Ethics group and Executive Team meeting
The CD may be required to represent the Trust at system, regional and national events
The CD will be responsible for ensuring productive and positive team working with senior management colleagues within the Trust and across the services for which he/she is responsible. This includes an emphasis on positive relationships between all staff involved in providing care, and those providing support services and also on a culture of accessibility, open communication, mutual support and effective challenge. Key relationships include those with and between staff including the different groups of professional staff and with staff side organisations.
The CD will routinely work with Clinical Executives as required including on day to day quality and safety and any new developments.
The CD will be required to provide and receive highly complex/sensitive information and data which they will need to interpret and may share appropriately with a wide range of stakeholders.
The CD will need to be able to demonstrate highly developed communication, written, verbal, and presentation skills. Also the post holder should be able to demonstrate highly developed negotiating and motivational skills in what may be difficult, sometimes confrontationalsituations.
Planning and Organisation
The CD will have responsibility for quality, safety and effectiveness within the division and therefore implementing and overseeing the Trust strategy and transformation plans to uphold these principles.
The CD will have responsibility for ensuring that the service is adequately resourced, organised and fit for purpose. This also involves ensuring that services conform to the models, standards and principles set by the Clinical Executive, the Trust and by the NHS.
The CD will be responsible for identifying any resource requirements and negotiating with executives and system partners to achieve an affordable and sustainable outcome.
The CD will be responsible for ensuring an annual operating plan is developed for the delivery and development of services that may be included in the overall Trust Business plan for approval by the Board. This plan will focus on relevant aspects of the Trusts services/models ofcare. The emphasis will be on designing and delivering services that meet the needs of the people who use our services and their families by improving the integration of service delivery, responsiveness and accessibility, and by increasing capacity to help individuals and their carers towards recovery and independence.
The CD will be accountable for delivery of the required Quality Improvement Programmes for the services within the Division.
The CD will be responsible for ensuring that all stakeholders are appraised of operational plans and requirements and that people who use our services, carers, partner agencies and other providers are fully and effectively engaged in the processes of planning and implementation.
Please see attached JD for full list of responsibilities and duties
Person Specification
Shortlisting Criteria
Essential
- Qualified Clinician maintaining professional registration
- Educated to Masters Level or equivalent experience/competence
- Management qualification or equivalent experience/competence
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Job application is tailored to the requirements of this post
Desirable
- Detailed working knowledge of the NHS and Local Government policies relating to Mental Health together with good knowledge of principal policy and financial determinants.
- Experience of working in partnership to ensure success in contract and Local Delivery Plan negotiations with commissioners, social care, criminal justice services, statutory and non-statutory agencies
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
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Callington Road Hospital
Marmalade Lane
Brislington Bristol
BS4 5BJ
Employer's website
http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
