Job overview

The CD will have responsibility for ensuring the best quality care and outcomes are delivered by the services in their division for the local population served within the resources available and in partnership with others.

The CD will have clinical leadership of the division, ensuring the clinical care pathways are enabled to deliver the national and local strategies and for the achievement of high-quality performance and clinical outcomes.

This role is advertised as permanent or 6 month interim post. Please state in your supporting information if you are applying for the permanent or interim role. Please note the interim role closes on the 26th February.

Main duties of the job

The CD will be responsible for ensuring the best quality mental health care is delivered to the population of Brighton & Hove within available resources. They will clinically lead the division, ensuring care pathways deliver national & local priorities achieving high quality performance & outcomes. The postholder will be a key part in the leadership of the Trust with responsibilities across the organisation whilst working closely with the Divisional Managing Director & Director of Nursing and Quality to ensure consistent clinical standards, practice & outcomes.
With a commitment to place based 'systems of care' our Sussex ICS Strategy clearly lays out the ambition that '...health and care organisations will work in a more joined-up way and within communities to better understand and respond to their specific needs. Support and services will be shaped around local people, rather than expecting them to fit into the 'system'. By communities, we mean both the local area people live in and also the communities that we know people identify with, such as those with the same interests, beliefs or way of live'.
The CD will be responsible for ensuring the best quality mental health care is delivered to the population of Brighton & Hove within available resources. They will clinically lead the division, ensuring care pathways deliver national & local priorities achieving high quality performance & outcomes.

Working for our organisation

The Clinical Director reports to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and is part of the triumvirate leadership model within the the Division. This role is supported by the Associate Clinical Director.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Scope & Responsibilities:

• To provide clinical leadership to all professionals and managers in the Division - including regular reviews and appraisals of their roles
• To appoint and manage the Clinical Leads and/or Lead Psychiatrists within the Division and to develop clinical leadership across all the services.
• To supervise the Clinical Leads and/or Lead psychiatrists in the delivery of line management of consultant psychiatrists, medical job planning and recruitment.
• To provide the clinical leadership and support the development of long-term strategic plans for the division based upon interpretation of national mental health policy and strategy and considering the Trust aims and objectives and projected needs of the client
• To provide clinical leadership and support to the Managing Director and Divisional director for Nursing and Quality for the Division in overseeing the financial position and ensuring that services are provided within the agreed financial envelope whilst maintaining appropriate clinical standards.
• To provide clinical leadership and perspectives on service change programmes that delivers CIP savings as well as improvements in quality and patient
• To provide clinical leadership in building a culture of continuous improvement of services as demonstrated by Quality Improvement, clinical audit and other forms of benchmarking. Proactively ensuring that the learning from serious incidents, near misses and complaints is acted upon and communicated effectively throughout the trust, this includes facilitating sessions to promote
• To provide leadership in building and embedding a Just and Learning Culture within the Division, this includes openness and responsibilities under Duty of
• To provide clinical leadership in developing excellent relationships with GPs, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Acute Hospitals and the Sustainability & Transformation Partnerships
• To represent the Trust when appropriate in handling media, CCG or NCB enquiries, or in communicating complex or contentious information to staff around service developments, serious incidents or
• To act as an ambassador for the Trust in key clinical commissioning forums, including the Sussex Clinical Senate and the ICB
• To lead on the development of the research and audit strategies and implementation plans within services as agreed by the Service and Trust. This includes making the final decision on the appropriateness of any clinical research studies that are being proposed within the division.
• To undertake face to face clinical work within the division as appropriate and by agreement
• To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. This may include teaching or public seeking requiring periods of intense concentration.
• To promote and display via personal actions support for the Trust's key policies on Equality and Diversity, Exemplar Employer and use of the recovery orientated approach for people with longer term problems.
• Work clinically in line with professional qualifications, seniority and speciality in a clinical service within the Division. Given the seniority of the post-holder, this is likely to include complex case management, assessment, risk management and care planning and delivery of specific therapeutic interventions. The post-holder will be required to maintain their CPD, their professional licence (if applicable) and work within the clinical services providing clinical leadership to their team.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Equivalent professional qualification to Consultant level

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of clinical or professional leadership role within services
• Good understanding of change management
• Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services
• Ability to engage with staff and motivate to improve performance.

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.