Main area: Any clinical profession with professional registration
Grade: Band 8D
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 342-CS023-0325
Employer: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Callington Road Hospital
Town: Brislington, Bristol
Salary: £88,168 - £101,677 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 24/04/2025
Band 8D Clinical Director - Callington Road Hospital, Bristol
Job overview
Join Our Team as Clinical Director!
Location: Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Contract Type: Permanent Salary: Medical Grade or Agenda for Change Band 8D
About the Role:
Are you a passionate senior clinician looking to make a real impact? The Chief Operating Officer, Mathew Page, invites you to apply for the role of Clinical Director. Coming into this role, you'll be fully supported with supervision, appraisals, and a bespoke package tailored just for you.
Your Team:
You'll lead an experienced team, including:
* Divisional Director of Nursing
* Divisional Director of Operations
* Divisional Medical Director
Together, you will drive:
* Financial balance
* Organisational culture and strategy
* Engagement within the wider system
About Our Division:
The Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire (West) Division provides all adult mental health services. We are currently transforming our community services in line with the Community Mental Health Framework, requiring significant leadership to ensure long-term quality.
Our integrated care system is aligned with the three local authority areas, and we are committed to building effective relationships to deliver what our communities need.
Join us in making a difference every day!
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
* Operational clinical leadership of the division
* Being a member of the extended executive team
* Attending board committees as required
What we’re looking for:
Mathew is searching for colleagues who are dedicated to improving individual patient care and can understand the broader impact of service changes.
The ideal candidate will:
* Ensure the reduction of inequities in health outcomes through transformational change
* Embrace system leadership and manage uncertainty
* Promote a culture of coproduction
* Have an eye for detail to ensure reliable board assurance
Who Can Apply?
Professionally registered colleagues from all Medicine, Health and Social Care backgrounds are welcome to apply. This full-time role includes clinical work appropriate to your background, negotiable up to one day per week.
Interested?
If this opportunity piques your interest, arrange an initial meeting with Mathew by emailing mathewpage@nhs.net
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationships
The CD will report directly to the Chief Operating Officer.
The CD will receive professional supervision from the respective Clinical Executive.
The CD will line manage the Divisional Directors of Nursing and Quality, Operations and Medical.
The CD will report directly to the Operational Delivery Group.
The CD will attend and provide reports to Quality and Standards, Audit and Risk committees.
The CD may attend the Professional Cabinet, Ethics group and Executive Team meeting.
The CD may be required to represent the Trust at system, regional and national events.
The CD will be responsible for ensuring productive and positive team working with senior management colleagues within the Trust and across the services for which he/she is responsible. This includes an emphasis on positive relationships between all staff involved in providing care, and those providing support services and also on a culture of accessibility, open communication, mutual support and effective challenge. Key relationships include those with and between staff including the different groups of professional staff and with staff side organisations.
The CD will routinely work with Clinical Executives as required including on day to day quality and safety and any new developments.
The CD will be required to provide and receive highly complex/sensitive information and data which they will need to interpret and may share appropriately with a wide range of stakeholders.
The CD will need to be able to demonstrate highly developed communication, written, verbal, and presentation skills. Also the post holder should be able to demonstrate highly developed negotiating and motivational skills in what may be difficult, sometimes confrontational situations.
Planning and Organisation
The CD will have responsibility for quality, safety and effectiveness within the division and therefore implementing and overseeing the Trust strategy and transformation plans to uphold these principles.
The CD will have responsibility for ensuring that the service is adequately resourced, organised and fit for purpose. This also involves ensuring that services conform to the models, standards and principles set by the Clinical Executive, the Trust and by the NHS.
The CD will be responsible for identifying any resource requirements and negotiating with executives and system partners to achieve an affordable and sustainable outcome.
The CD will be responsible for ensuring an annual operating plan is developed for the delivery and development of services that may be included in the overall Trust Business plan for approval by the Board. This plan will focus on relevant aspects of the Trust’s services/models of care. The emphasis will be on designing and delivering services that meet the needs of the people who use our services and their families by improving the integration of service delivery, responsiveness and accessibility, and by increasing capacity to help individuals and their carers towards recovery and independence.
The CD will be accountable for delivery of the required Quality Improvement Programmes for the services within the Division.
The CD will be responsible for ensuring that all stakeholders are appraised of operational plans and requirements and that people who use our services, carers, partner agencies and other providers are fully and effectively engaged in the processes of planning and implementation.
Please see attached JD for full list of responsibilities and duties
Person specification
Shortlisting Criteria
* Educated to Masters Level or equivalent experience/competence
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Job application is tailored to the requirements of this post
* Detailed working knowledge of the NHS and Local Government policies relating to Mental Health together with good knowledge of principal policy and financial determinants.
* Experience of working in partnership to ensure success in contract and Local Delivery Plan negotiations with commissioners, social care, criminal justice services, statutory and non-statutory agencies
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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