Clinical Director - Bath NHS House

Clinical Director- Bath NHS House

Band 8D as per the agenda for change/medical consultant salary and responsibility allowance as per the consultant pay scale depending on experience

As Clinical Director (CD) you will lead one of three divisions in AWP. The role will include you being clinically accountable for the quality, safety and effectiveness of services as well as leading on strategic development and partnership arrangements.

In short, you will be in charge of one of the divisions, reporting directly in to the executive Chief Operating Officer for the Trust, but you won’t be doing this alone. We have recently reviewed our leadership structure to ensure that we can meet both the local challenges and the wider context of integrated care systems and provider collaboratives; you will be leading a team of a Divisional Director of Operations who will be responsible for all delivery and performance, a Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality who will be responsible for all quality and safety aspects and a Divisional Director of Medical services who will line manage all medical staff and lead on the effectiveness agenda.

This is not an easy task, there will be all sorts of challenges including demand on services, navigating complex partnership arrangements not to mention making sure that all of our patients receive the best possible care. What we can offer is the full support of an established executive team and a range of positive relationships and opportunities with both statutory and voluntary community sector providers.

You will be an experienced clinician (possibly: medical, nursing, psychology, social work or another discipline) with a track record of leading large services and managing complex change. You will understand the need for system leadership, be able to live with uncertainty and always have in mind what you are prepared to give and what you are prepared to give up to best deliver competing demands . We will need you to be able to think at a strategic level overseeing large scale and long term change, but at the same time have the eye for detail that will mean the board gets reliable assurance on the division’s services. Most of all there is one prevailing requirement – that you always put the patients first, not just in a generalised way but as an individual named person who needs our care and support, Friday afternoon crisis type of a way.

We realise that this is a is an enormous amount to ask of one person, but joining our senior leadership team now means that you can shape what you need in order to deliver this as we move to the next stage of our organisational changes.

Our Chief Operating Officer – Mathew Page, has been in post for nearly five years so can give you a full and frank synopsis of what he thinks is needed within each division and you can arrange a time to meet with him by emailingmathewpage@nhs.net.The two divisions in which we are seeking to appoint are:

Specialised, Secure and CAMHS Division

The three Delivery Units that comprise the division cover a whole range of services. We are building up our CAMHS services across the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire area having moved services into AWP and continuing a significant transformation programme. As well as community services we also operate an inpatient unit for the region.

Our Secure Services are all based in North Bristol where we operate both low and medium secure services.

Our specialised services contain a substantial brief including inpatient services for substance misuse, mother and baby, eating disorders and learning disabilities. We provide community services in the same areas, but in addition we also support people with neurodevelopmental issues, prison mental health issues and veterans.

We play a key role in the provider collaborative in the south west and are currently looking at other areas where we can build strong working relationships. Our aspiration to develop our Learning disability services will provide ample of opportunity to stretch and develop leadership skills.

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (East) Division

The three delivery units in this division provide all of the services for adults with mental health issues. Whether it’s Talking Therapies (IAPT), community services or inpatient, all are currently under development as we respond to a range of change requirements.

Potentially the biggest task of the moment is our programme to transform all of our community services in line with the Community Mental Health Framework. This work is well underway but will need significant leadership to see it to completion and sustain service quality in the long term.

External to our Trust our integrated care system is divided in line with the three local authority areas, as these new entities emerge we will need to continue the work to build effective relationships which ensure we deliver what our communities need.