Job overview
1.ROLE DETAILS
Role Title: Clinical Lead
Sessional Commitment: Time allocated in job plan: not more than 1 Programmed Activity (PA)
Remuneration: Responsibility allowance £7,500 or relevant Agenda for Change pay band
Tenure: 2 years (subject to satisfactory annual review of performance against agreed objectives)
Location: Whipps Cross University Hospital
Accountable to: Divisional Clinical Director
Responsible to: Divisional Clinical Director
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be personally accountable for the overall performance of the speciality team in delivering national and local health care priorities, ensuring clinical quality, patient safety, and improving patient experience.
The Clinical Lead will work closely with the relevant Clinical Director, Associate Director of Nursing and the relevant General Manager to support clinical leadership for the Division. The Clinical Lead will have a strong line of partnership working and collaboration with each respective Divisional Director and Clinical Network Lead.
The Clinical Lead will foster a culture of learning and innovation, realising the potential synergies with education and research.
The Clinical Lead will be responsible for the management of the Specialty team of clinicians, valuing good performance, addressing poor performance, and enabling staff to identify concerns and ensure that these are resolved. They will provide support to all staff, fostering a culture to develop strong and effective clinical leadership.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be personally accountable for the overall performance of the speciality team in delivering national and local health care priorities, ensuring clinical quality, patient safety, and improving patient experience.
The Clinical Lead will work closely with the relevant Clinical Director, Associate Director of Nursing and the relevant General Manager to support clinical leadership for the Division. The Clinical Lead will have a strong line of partnership working and collaboration with each respective Divisional Director and Clinical Network Lead.
The Clinical Lead will foster a culture of learning and innovation, realising the potential synergies with education and research.
The Clinical Lead will be responsible for the management of the Specialty team of clinicians, valuing good performance, addressing poor performance, and enabling staff to identify concerns and ensure that these are resolved. They will provide support to all staff, fostering a culture to develop strong and effective clinical leadership.
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
1. Registration with relevant professional body.
2. Employed substantively in clinical practice within Barts Health on the Whipps Cross site
3. A good understanding of the current context of health and social care, and of clinical learning and research
4. A broad understanding of the systems for primary care, social care and commissioning
Experience
Essential criteria
5. Worked clinically at a senior level for at least 3 years
6. Significant experience of leadership and management
7. Experience of clinical governance and of the measures to ensure patient safety
8. Track record of innovation
Desirable criteria
9. Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction
Skills
Essential criteria
10. Able to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear vision and sense of direction
11. Ability to define and implement policy development at directorate level
12. Able to lead continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies with a multidisciplinary team.
13. Able to prioritise and manage competing demands
Attitudes and Values
Essential criteria
14. Understands and supports the vision and values of the Trust
15. Acts as a role model for senior as well as more junior colleagues
16. Team player, able to develop a culture that values colleagues and enables them to engage in problem solving and decision making
17. Provides a role model for clinical leaders