Clinical Director of Transformation
Job Description
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our ambitious and improvement orientated organisation as the Clinical Director of Transformation. You will be working as part of a cohesive medical leadership team which covers a diverse portfolio of specialist mental health services. As a key member of the SLT, you will also have shared responsibility for performance, quality, workforce, finance and implementation of regional and national priorities. Reporting into the Chief Transformation Officer, and the Deputy Chief Executive and CMO, you will work closely, in particular, with the Deputy CNO, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Locality Directors, taking a joint lead role for clinical workforce, governance and improvement.
Main duties of the job
As an experienced medical leader and psychiatrist, you will have a passion for our work and a track record of achievement in influencing colleagues and partners to deliver high quality care. An inspirational and compassionate leader you will promote and deliver clinical workforce modernisation and improvement encouraging innovation in clinical practice as well as ensuring effective systems are in place to allow optimum use of resources through effective and flexible job planning and deployment of the medical workforce.With a strong focus on population health, you will share our values and be an ambassador for our patients, service users and their families and carers.
For more information and a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
About us
Improving Together for Mental HealthAbout usNorfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) provides mental health and learning disability care for people across Norfolk and Suffolk. We are committed to providing high quality care with compassion, delivering many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community. We have clinical teams providing services in inpatient, community and primary care settings. Our teams currently work in geographic care groups with dedicated local clinical leadership teams. We support a population of just over 1.6 million people and have a dedicated workforce of over 5,000 staff. Our biggest bases are at Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich, Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds and Woodlands Unit in Ipswich but our staff are based in more than 50 locations.Since 2023, our Trust has made and sustained a number of improvements and we are working to deliver across four priorities - improving health, improving care, improving culture and improving value. Our new Trust strategy sets out our commitment for continuous improvement to create a safer, kinder and better organisation. Together, with our service users, families, carers and our partner organisations, we are striving to make real improvements to the mental health and wellbeing of our local communities.We are committed to equality of opportunity for all.
Job responsibilities
For more information and a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
For a confidential discussion please contact: Dr Faisil Sethi, Chief Medical Officer (faisil.sethi@nsft.nhs.uk)
Interviews for this role will take place between 12th and 19th May 2025.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Clinician
- Educated to at least Masters degree level. Holds a post-graduate qualification or has equivalent relevant work experience.
- Licence to Practise/relevant professional registration
Skills
Essential
- An appreciation of different management approaches with the ability to support and lead stakeholders to develop and deliver the Trust's strategy
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).
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
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
County Hall
Martineau Lane
NORWICH
NR1 2DL
Employer's website
https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
