We are looking for medical leaders with a passion for delivering community health to support patients with frailty or intermediate care needs to remain in their own homes or in community places of care.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of clinical leadership within services to drive change and improvement in new Clinical Director role. The post-holder will provide advice, leadership and support to the medical, clinical and senior management teams across the portfolio

The Clinical Director for Intermediate Care and Frailty (CD) will be the senior medical lead across the following settings:

Intermediate Care including Intermediate Care units

Urgent Responsive Services including ICRAS

Frailty including virtual wards

You will enjoy working as part of a highly skilled and motivated team to deliver excellent care.

Main duties of the job

Provide medical leadership to all community urgent care services, across the trust. The post holder will work closely with Clinical Director colleagues within the community health division to align strategy and standardise the delivery of services

Work with the senior management teams in the services and set the standards for clinical services and provide advice and support to the senior management teams across their specialty portfolio.

The Clinical Director will be accountable for medical performance, line management, individual job planning and its impact upon the operational delivery of urgent care services

They will work alongside senior multidisciplinary colleagues across the trust to ensure the appropriate stewardship of resources and the appropriate implementation of audit and quality standards eg. NICE Guidelines

The role will be supported centrally by senior medical leaders, holding responsibility for workforce planning, medicines management, education, research and innovation, and risk management

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Job description
Job responsibilities

The Clinical Director will :

identify and develop excellent relationships with key stakeholders and work across the health community to further shape the trust strategy for urgent care services

take strategic responsibility for developing, promoting, supporting and holding to account urgent care teams within community services

lead urgent care services through ongoing transformation, redesigning services as part of a wider shift towards greater integration with other providers e.g. local authorities, integrated care teams, primary care networks and other providers

ensure that any risks to quality are identified, and that appropriate actions are taken to reduce, maintain or mitigate the risk

ensure that urgent care services maintain the essential and fundamental standards of care and safety as specified by the Care Quality Commission, and to support the trusts work towards achieving an outstanding rating across all categories

be able to recruit, motivate, and develop staff, and help maintain high levels of staff morale through inspirational leadership

work alongside the Patient Safety Team to ensure learning follows from investigations

attend divisional / trust operational meetings where appropriate and if required to attend sub-committees of the Board to present service line report(s)

Please see job description for further details.

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential

• Current registration with relevant professional clinical body
• oPostgraduate study at Masters level, or equivalent specialist experience (see below).

Desirable

• oLeadership/ Management qualification with proven ability to lead and build effective teams

Knowledge and Skills
Essential

• Awareness and understanding of mental health policy and legislation
• Awareness and understanding of Equality and Human Rights legislation, Human Rights and Anti-discriminatory, rights based approach
• Highly developed theoretical and practical knowledge of Mental Health Services
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally with a range of stakeholders including external partners, commissioners and Trust Board
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills
• Knowledge of change management processes
• Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, across boundaries where necessary
• Good understanding of budgetary control
• Ability to persuade, influence and motivate others
• Well developed political awareness
• Understanding of strategic processes and service management issues
• Knowledge or research process within clinical services
• Ability to identify, develop nurture and promote innovative approaches to service development
• Ability to analyse and interpret information from multiple sources including the integrated service governance framework, national policy, strategic health authority and express in operational policies
• Ability to articulate the Trust vision and values
• Evidence to support work in line with principles of a Just & Learning Culture

Desirable

• Computer literate
• Good understanding of workforce development
• Significant experience of budgetary management
• Negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Published research in a peer reviewed journal

Experience/Achievements
Essential

• 5 years experience in a senior management/senior practitioner role
• Successful track record of improving service delivery
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
• Experience of strategic thinking and planning
• Experience of applying audit and research skills to improve patient care

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