Job summary
This role is open to the following disciplines;
Consultant Psychiatrist / Nurse / AHP / Psychologist / Social Worker (AfC 8c/8d/9 depending on experience and competencies, and subject to job evaluation) - 0.6WTE plus 20% supplement. Additional 0.4WTE clinical sessions are available.
This is a great leadership opportunity for someone who is interested in designing and developing integrated, high quality mental health services for adults and older people. It is an exciting time to be working in North London Mental Health Partnership where there is a commitment to develop equitable services for our local population and to reduce health inequalities. There has been significant investment in community services to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan. The postholder, along with the Managing Director and Associate Director of Nursing, will be responsible for the day to day operation and performance of services. They will help develop and implement the clinical strategy for community services.
We are looking for a senior clinician with leadership skills who is passionate about developing and providing excellent mental health services who demonstrates our trust values of: kind, respectful, work together, keep things simple, empower, proudly diverse.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Director is jointly responsible for the operational management and the performance of services with the Managing Director and Associate Director of Nursing. The Clinical Director is line managed within the medical directorate. For professional and clinical matters they will report to the Medical Director for Adult and Older Adult services. Their duties include:
- Responsibility for the quality of clinical care including safety, effectiveness and patient experience
- Developing and overseeing delivery of the clinical strategy and model
- Joint responsibility with Hospital CD for patient flow in and out of hospital services
- Clinical leadership
- Quality Improvement
- Clinical Governance
- Line management and recruitment of medical staff
- Clinical patient data
- Developing population-based healthcare and integration
About us
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust is responsible for providing mental health services for people of all ages across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, as well as providing some specialist services across the whole of North London and beyond. Since January 2011, the Trust also provides adult and children's community health services in Enfield, following the transfer of Enfield Community Services from NHS Enfield.Formed in 2001 through the merger of its predecessor organizations, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH-MHT) continues to innovate and develop at a fast pace. We are a large mental health trust in London with an annual budget of £337 million and employing more than 3,300 staff. In 2020-21 the trust cared for more than 126,176 people; approximately 2,800 patients on our wards and over 128,388 service users in the community.
We provide a wide range of local and more specialist mental health services, including helping people with serious mental illness (SMI), personality disorders, drug and alcohol recovery, children's mental health issues, dementia, eating disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD and suicide prevention. The Trust has an overall Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating as 'Good' from 2019 and retained the 'good' rating in 2022. It also runs the North London Forensic Service (NLFS), which the CQC has rated as Outstanding.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties of the Clinical Directors are to deliver the ambitions of the Clinical Strategy as it relates to their division. Further duties include:
Further duties include:
- The Clinical Director will be a practicing clinician within the Trust.
- Lead and contribute to the evolving and transformative clinical pathways for adults and older adults. This includes leading the delivery and governance of co-production of clinical pathways and reducing unwanted variation between services.
- Providing leadership and managing clinical, financial, and operational performance of the division in partnership and by supporting the Managing Director and Associate Director of Nursing; holding the clinical focus and accountability for all aspects of service performance, but especially safety, outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- Ensuring systems are in place to monitor the performance of the services against both its business targets and plans and against standards for accreditation by external bodies such as the Care Quality Commission, the Clinical Negligence Scheme, etc.
- Developing and articulating The North London Mental Health Partnerships ambition to deliver population-based healthcare and integration with partner organisations
- Providing clinical leadership and being jointly responsible for the quality and safety of clinical practice and ensuring services are evidence-based, including the implementation of NICE, GIRFT and other national guidelines
- Working closely with the wider medical directorate to provide clinical leadership across The North London Mental Health Partnership and implementing operational initiatives from the medical directorate
- Implementing clinical policies, both local and national, including the clinical strategy. Ensuring the effective implementation of the Trusts clinical policies and contributing to relevant clinical committees and groups
- Attend Executive, Board, Committee and Senior Leadership meetings as required
- Leading and developing clinical engagement across the wider North Central London system
- Helping to deliver the clinical, workforce and digital ambitions related to wider estates development projects, including extended operational office hours and seven-day services
- Keeping abreast of national and international knowledge pertaining to their services and implementing new evidence-based ideas
- Implementing widespread use of agreed outcome measures, including an analytical framework and feedback of data to clinical teams
- Promoting and developing a system wide culture where clinicians are encouraged and supported to embrace innovation and creativity, including Quality Improvement and research
- Support research projects, grow research capability and rapidly implement research findings
- Having processes in place and oversight of complaints and incidents investigations, action plans and learning
- Ensure the presence of a robust programme of clinical teaching and training
- Contribute to necessary planning around out of hours rotas and performance management of these as required
- Manage relationships with partners, commissioners, service users and carers
- Represent the division and medical directorate at key meetings, committees, external events
- Manage the Medical Budget for the division, including reducing agency spend for doctors
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties of the Clinical Directors are to deliver the ambitions of the Clinical Strategy as it relates to their division. Further duties include:
Further duties include:
- The Clinical Director will be a practicing clinician within the Trust.
- Lead and contribute to the evolving and transformative clinical pathways for adults and older adults. This includes leading the delivery and governance of co-production of clinical pathways and reducing unwanted variation between services.
- Providing leadership and managing clinical, financial, and operational performance of the division in partnership and by supporting the Managing Director and Associate Director of Nursing; holding the clinical focus and accountability for all aspects of service performance, but especially safety, outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- Ensuring systems are in place to monitor the performance of the services against both its business targets and plans and against standards for accreditation by external bodies such as the Care Quality Commission, the Clinical Negligence Scheme, etc.
- Developing and articulating The North London Mental Health Partnerships ambition to deliver population-based healthcare and integration with partner organisations
- Providing clinical leadership and being jointly responsible for the quality and safety of clinical practice and ensuring services are evidence-based, including the implementation of NICE, GIRFT and other national guidelines
- Working closely with the wider medical directorate to provide clinical leadership across The North London Mental Health Partnership and implementing operational initiatives from the medical directorate
- Implementing clinical policies, both local and national, including the clinical strategy. Ensuring the effective implementation of the Trusts clinical policies and contributing to relevant clinical committees and groups
- Attend Executive, Board, Committee and Senior Leadership meetings as required
- Leading and developing clinical engagement across the wider North Central London system
- Helping to deliver the clinical, workforce and digital ambitions related to wider estates development projects, including extended operational office hours and seven-day services
- Keeping abreast of national and international knowledge pertaining to their services and implementing new evidence-based ideas
- Implementing widespread use of agreed outcome measures, including an analytical framework and feedback of data to clinical teams
- Promoting and developing a system wide culture where clinicians are encouraged and supported to embrace innovation and creativity, including Quality Improvement and research
- Support research projects, grow research capability and rapidly implement research findings
- Having processes in place and oversight of complaints and incidents investigations, action plans and learning
- Ensure the presence of a robust programme of clinical teaching and training
- Contribute to necessary planning around out of hours rotas and performance management of these as required
- Manage relationships with partners, commissioners, service users and carers
- Represent the division and medical directorate at key meetings, committees, external events
- Manage the Medical Budget for the division, including reducing agency spend for doctors
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Professional Qualification at Consultant level or equivalent
- Management qualification or equivalent experience / competence
- Full registration with the General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health Professions Council
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
Desirable
- Formal training in leadership and management skills
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- High level of ability to effectively communicate complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to a wide range of professionals within and outside the NHS
- High level ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Extensive ability in leadership and management skills
- Ability to work respectfully and sustain partnerships with senior management both within the organisation and with other key stakeholders and with colleagues, referrers and clients.
- Skills in Quality Improvement
- Skills in data analysis and report writing
Desirable
- Formal training in Quality Improvement methodology
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive NHS management experience across a range of specialties, services and care groups
- Experience of working with senior Trust staff at a corporate level
- Experience of professional, clinical and line management of senior staff
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services
- Experience in the assessment of complex clinical cases involving severe and enduring mental illness and significant risk histories and the ability to support clinicians managing such cases.
- Detailed knowledge of the professional/revalidation requirements for the professional group
- Experience of delivering substantial service change and communicating update to key stakeholders on progress and delivering to agreed objectives
- Experience of working in partnership to ensure success in contract negotiations with commissioners, social care, criminal justice services, statutory and non-statutory agencies
- Experience of developing and delivering clinical and business plans within a challenging public and political environment
- Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate clearly and confidently to range of staff and audiences
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Professional Qualification at Consultant level or equivalent
- Management qualification or equivalent experience / competence
- Full registration with the General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health Professions Council
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
Desirable
- Formal training in leadership and management skills
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- High level of ability to effectively communicate complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to a wide range of professionals within and outside the NHS
- High level ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Extensive ability in leadership and management skills
- Ability to work respectfully and sustain partnerships with senior management both within the organisation and with other key stakeholders and with colleagues, referrers and clients.
- Skills in Quality Improvement
- Skills in data analysis and report writing
Desirable
- Formal training in Quality Improvement methodology
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive NHS management experience across a range of specialties, services and care groups
- Experience of working with senior Trust staff at a corporate level
- Experience of professional, clinical and line management of senior staff
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services
- Experience in the assessment of complex clinical cases involving severe and enduring mental illness and significant risk histories and the ability to support clinicians managing such cases.
- Detailed knowledge of the professional/revalidation requirements for the professional group
- Experience of delivering substantial service change and communicating update to key stakeholders on progress and delivering to agreed objectives
- Experience of working in partnership to ensure success in contract negotiations with commissioners, social care, criminal justice services, statutory and non-statutory agencies
- Experience of developing and delivering clinical and business plans within a challenging public and political environment
- Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate clearly and confidently to range of staff and audiences
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Address
Enfield Community Mental Health Services
Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital
London
EN2 8JL
Employer's website
http://www.beh-mht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
