Strategic Clinical Collaborative Chair

Job summary

Since 2023, our Trust has made and sustained a number of improvements. As an ambitious and improvement orientated organisation, we are working together to deliver across four priorities - improving health, improving care, improving culture and improving value. The Trust's strategy sets out our commitment for continuous improvement to create a safer, kinder and better organisation. Together, with our service users, families, carers and our partner organisations, we are striving to make real improvements to the mental health and wellbeing of our local communities.

To further support this work, an exciting opportunity has arisen to Chair one of our emerging strategic clinical collaboratives.

This clinical leadership role will be key in enabling the function and operation of strategic clinical collaboratives across the Trust. Each strategic clinical collaborative will play an essential role in reducing unwarranted variation and delivering a whole health collaborative population wide approach to improving mental health services. In total, there are six roles available for each strategic clinical collaborative.

As an experienced clinical leader, you will have a passion for our work and a track record of achievement in influencing colleagues and partners to deliver high quality care. With a strong focus on population health, you will share our values and be an ambassador for our service users, carers, staff and communities.

Main duties of the job

Why strategic clinical collaboratives are important?

The Trust is committed to improving its services together with staff, partners and communities to provide safer, kinder and better care. To deliver the scale of organisational change required, the Trust has developed an ambitious improvement plan that encompasses structural, strategic, cultural, process and skills-based change.

The plan includes the delivery of major change programmes such as a new locality leadership structure and the transformation of clinical pathways. Within both programmes, it has become clear - that there is widespread support and a clinical need for strategic clinical collaboratives within the organisation.

Learning from peers further suggests that the development of strategic clinical collaboratives is important to developing a whole health collaborative population wide approach to improving mental health services by delivering service transformation in line with national, regional and local priorities and standards.

How will strategic clinical collaboratives work in practice?

Strategic clinical collaboratives are multi-disciplinary in nature and led by expert clinicians with skills-sets that are relevant to their collaborative.

Within this context, clinical pathways based on national best practice and measured through nationally adopted clinical outcome measures within each collaborative could be adopted and developed.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Norfolk/Suffolk - Flexible on base

Norwich

NR1 2DH

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Norfolk/Suffolk - Flexible on base

Norwich

NR1 2DH

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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