Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact Oversees and understand accountability for the delivery of Medical Services within the care group, in partnership with Associate Medical Directors. Ensures that all members of the clinical teams have access to agreed evidence based clinical pathways for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of knowledge, skills and research. Makes highly skilled evaluations and provides expert, professional advice and consultation on decisions about treatment options to clinical staff with regard to highly complex cases within own professional field. Provides oversight to ensure both general and specific support and advice to those undertaking risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and provides both general and specialist advice for medical and other professionals on the therapeutic aspects of risk assessment and management, seeking guidance and leadership from relevant clinical colleagues. Provides expert consultation regarding the care and treatment of client groups to agencies outside the Trust. Understands limits of own professional and clinical expertise and seeks guidance and leadership from expert clinical colleagues as required. Addresses complaints and concerns directly with service users and carers, seeking to achieve a satisfactory outcome for the affected parties. Responsibility for Information & Information Systems Supports the clinical services in the achievement of the highest standards of clinical and corporate record keeping, including timely and accurate electronic data entry, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures. As a designated Information Asset Owner (IAO): understands and monitors the information assets which are held within the designated area (their purpose, how the information is created, amended or added to over time, who has access to the information and why) understands and addresses any risks to the assets, providing assurance to the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO). Regularly (several times per month) produces reports in collaboration with relevant colleagues, on a wide range of strategic and operational issues for senior level groups e.g. Trust Board, Executive Management Team, Operational Management Team, Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness committees, Service development Groups etc. Such reports may include detailed spreadsheets requiring the use of formulae to produce statistical information. Responsibility for Planning/Organising & Strategic/Business Development Participates in the development of the strategic vision of the Trust, identifying and promoting strategic objectives through regular participation in Board away-days and workshops. Actively engages in Trust-level business planning. Supporting the strategic development of the trust medical directorate, identifying service priorities and advising on the level of medical provision within the care group. Advises and supports the medical directorate and associate medical directors in the development of service business plans to ensure they contribute to the achievement of Trust strategies and objectives. Identifies and highlights to the trust-wide board the implications of national health policy developments relating to medical staff and services and produces, implements and monitors care group actions in response to these developments. Where appropriate, undertakes the management of significant, long-term care group and Trust-wide projects utilising the Trusts project management framework, reporting progress at Board level or to the Senior Leadership Group. Policy Development Responsible for ensuring that all medical staff within the care group have arrangements in place to identify, develop and implement all clinical and non-clinical policies that are required for the safe and effective operation of services. Ensures compliance with service-specific and trust-wide policies across the Medical Directorate. As a member of the Trusts senior management team, participates in and provides consultation feedback to inform the development of Trust-wide policies. May lead the development of specific Trust-wide policies as appropriate. Service Development, Project Management Provides director-level leadership in the development of high quality, responsive and accessible Clinical Services for service-users, carers and families, including advising the Localities on those aspects of the service where medical or associated organisational matters need addressing. Responsible for identifying, developing and managing service development projects within the care group in accordance with the Trust project management framework and as agreed with the Chief Executive Officer. Projects may have Trust-wide impact and progress is regularly reported to the senior management groups and the Board of Directors. Lead role in the implementation of the Trusts quality improvement system (QIS) across Clinical services within the care group, being a senior improvement and coach leader and working with the Trusts improvement teams to identify service improvement opportunities and engage staff in regular service improvement events and related training activities. Strategically manages and collaboratively plans with appropriate external and internal partners and commissioners to ensure that Clinical Services adapt within the wider social care environment and meets the needs, not only of current service users, but also those accessing services in the future. Responsible for implementing and maintaining effective means of involving service users and carers in service development activity, in a meaningful way, through timely consultation and engagement. Financial Responsibilities Personal duty of care to complete time sheets, mileage forms, expense claim sheets etc., accurately and in a timely manner, providing receipts as required. Budget holder for pay and non-pay budgets for medical staffing in area of remit. Authorised signatory status within revenue expenditure limit. Manages external funding relating to research programmes. Lead responsibility for ensuring that high quality services are provided in a cost- effective way, within budget and in accordance with the Trusts policies and procedures, standing orders and standing financial instructions. Lead responsibility for developing and agreeing at Board level annual Cash Releasing Efficiency Savings (CRES) and ensuring these are met. Oversees the development of Outline Business Cases for service developments that have significant revenue and capital spend implications. Responsibility for Physical Resources, Estates, Hotel Services Responsible for maintaining asset registers. Ensures that effective systems are in place within the medical remit of the care group for identifying and reporting security and maintenance issues. Ensures that effective stock control systems are in place throughout the care group Medical Services. Research, Audit and Governance Takes the lead role in developing research and development capability within the Trusts Medical Services and in maximising opportunities to establish partnerships with Universities and other external organisations. Secures funding for the furtherance of research and development work. Responsible for the performance management of Medical Staff research and development activity within the service. Undertakes, co-ordinates and implements appropriate research, complex audit and service evaluation and provides leadership and advice to other staff undertaking research and development activities within the Medical Directorate to help develop and improve services to service users and carers. Maintains an active engagement with current developments in the field of Medicine relating to mental health Responsible for the systematic governance of practice within the medical profession, actively engaging, and ensuring appropriate clinical representation with trust-wide governance programmes. Participates in the Trusts clinical governance programme, supports staff to evaluate practice through clinical audit and ensures the implementation of action plans to effect change as required. Active member of the Patient Safety Committee and Clinical Effectiveness Committee. Makes judgements and decisions on a wide range of highly complex operational and strategic issues affecting Medical Services. This may require the analysis and interpretation of data from multiple sources which may conflict and where differences of opinion need to be resolved and where minimal or no guidance may be available. Makes decisions on challenging issues such as budget expenditure, cost improvement, policy change, service level agreements and new developments requiring these decisions to be communicated positively and appropriately to staff throughout the service. Analyses highly complex financial and operational information, performance targets etc. to inform the business planning process at a strategic level. Analyses highly complex clinical information in order to provide expert advice in own field regarding e.g. management of risk or therapeutic options. Reporting directly to the Executive Medical Director and Care Group Managing Director,works with minimal supervision, guided by own interpretation of Trust policies, local and national commissioner standards (e.g. CQUIN), national regulatory standards (e.g. CQC, NHSLA), national guidance etc.