Job Summary
Shape the Future of Mental Health Care in Cornwall.
Are you a passionate, forward‑thinking Consultant, SAS Doctor or Senior Non‑Medical Clinician ready to make a lasting impact? Join Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a key leader within our Older Adults Mental Health Team.
About the Role
* Collaborate closely with the Associate Medical Director for Mental Health, quadrumvirate teams and operational managers.
* Drive innovation and lead transformative change across mental health services.
* Align service development with our clinical strategy and workforce plans.
What We Offer
* A strategic leadership role with real impact.
* Opportunities to lead groundbreaking initiatives that improve patient care.
* A supportive, dynamic environment that values your expertise and amplifies your voice.
* Excellent career development prospects within a forward‑thinking organisation.
Responsibilities
* Provide strategic leadership and oversight of directorate performance across quality, operational, and financial domains.
* Engage and empower the medical workforce, delegating key responsibilities and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.
* Deliver visible, proactive clinical leadership across professional boundaries, promoting collaboration and integrated care.
* Communicate effectively and compassionately, ensuring staff feel supported and valued.
* Champion co‑production by working with service users and carers to shape and transform services.
* Align clinical services with integrated care models, building team confidence and embedding services within integrated neighbourhood teams.
* Ensure robust governance, including regular appraisals, essential skills training and agreed job plans for all medical staff to meet service needs.
* Provide expert clinical advice and assurance as part of the Trust's senior leadership team, escalating concerns appropriately and communicating mitigating actions to the Executive Team.
Person Specification
Skills
* Thorough knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the NHS and its inter‑relationship with other agencies.
* Understanding of the implications for medical staff of the modernisation agenda.
* Extensive knowledge of clinical audit, research and development and evidence‑based practice.
Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience
* Degree‑level professional qualification with relevant professional registration, e.g. GMC, NMC, HCPC.
* Further study and professional development to doctorate level or equivalent experience.
* Relevant leadership and management qualification or equivalent experience.
* Desirable: Medical qualification and appropriate Royal College membership or fellowship; full GMC registration.
Knowledge and Abilities
* Ability to adapt communication style to the audience, recognising barriers to understanding or acceptance.
* Highly effective leadership skills.
* Interpersonal and influencing skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communications.
* High analytical and numeracy skills.
* High level of self‑awareness and openness to self‑improvement.
* Insight into strengths and weaknesses.
* Ability to present complex information in an appropriate format for understanding.
* Ability to quickly assimilate, interpret and analyse highly complex information relating to organisational and service issues and make recommendations for action.
* Desirable: Environmental and political awareness; strong financial management skills; high quality business and service planning skills; good information technology skills.
Personal Qualities
* Inspires others and leads by example; able to make rational decisions in the face of adversity.
* Capacity to work with managers and others to develop a shared vision of services for patients and standards in delivery of services; willingness to accept that the wider interests of the Trust may require compromise.
* Commitment to implementation and strengthening of clinical governance.
* Personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of clinicians, managers, staff, patients, relatives and users of services.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.
Website: https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/
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