Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact
Oversees and understand accountability
for the delivery of Medical Services
within the care group, in partnership with Associate Medical Directors.
Ensures
that all members of the clinical teams have access to agreed evidence based
clinical pathways for the understanding and care of clients of the service,
through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of
knowledge, skills and research.
Makes
highly skilled evaluations and provides expert, professional advice and
consultation on decisions about treatment options to clinical staff with regard
to highly complex cases within own professional field.
Provides
oversight to ensure both general and specific support and advice to those
undertaking risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients
and provides both general and specialist advice for medical and other
professionals on the therapeutic aspects of risk assessment and management, seeking guidance and
leadership from relevant clinical colleagues.
Provides expert consultation regarding
the care and treatment of client groups to agencies outside the Trust.
Understands limits of own professional
and clinical expertise and seeks guidance and leadership from expert clinical
colleagues as required.
Addresses
complaints and concerns directly with service users and carers, seeking to
achieve a satisfactory outcome for the affected parties.
Responsibility for
Information & Information Systems
Supports
the clinical services in the achievement of the highest standards of clinical
and corporate record keeping, including timely and accurate electronic data
entry, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional
self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice
and Trust policies
and procedures.
As
a designated Information Asset Owner (IAO):
understands
and monitors the information assets which are held within the designated area
(their purpose, how the information is created, amended or added to over time,
who has access to the information and why)
understands
and addresses any risks to the assets, providing assurance to the Senior
Information Risk Owner (SIRO).
Regularly
(several times per month) produces reports in collaboration with relevant
colleagues, on a wide range of strategic and operational issues for senior
level groups e.g. Trust Board, Executive Management Team, Operational
Management Team, Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness committees, Service
development Groups etc. Such reports may include detailed spreadsheets
requiring the use of formulae to produce statistical information.
Responsibility for
Planning/Organising & Strategic/Business
Development
Participates
in the development of the strategic vision of the Trust, identifying and
promoting strategic objectives through regular participation in Board away-days
and workshops. Actively engages in Trust-level business planning.
Supporting
the strategic development of the trust medical directorate, identifying service
priorities and advising on the level of medical provision within the care group.
Advises
and supports the medical directorate and associate medical directors in the
development of service business plans to ensure they contribute to the
achievement of Trust strategies and objectives.
Identifies
and highlights to the trust-wide board the implications of national health
policy developments relating to medical staff and services and produces,
implements and monitors
care group actions in response
to these developments.
Where
appropriate, undertakes the management of significant, long-term care group and
Trust-wide projects utilising the Trusts project management framework,
reporting progress at Board level or to the Senior Leadership Group.
Policy Development
Responsible
for ensuring that all medical staff within the care group have arrangements in
place to identify, develop and implement all clinical and non-clinical policies
that are required for the safe and effective operation of services. Ensures
compliance with service-specific and trust-wide policies across the Medical Directorate.
As
a member of the Trusts senior management team, participates in and provides
consultation feedback to inform the development of Trust-wide policies. May
lead the development of specific Trust-wide policies as appropriate.
Service Development, Project Management
Provides
director-level leadership in the development of high quality, responsive and
accessible Clinical Services for service-users, carers and families, including
advising the Localities on those aspects of the service where medical or
associated organisational matters need addressing.
Responsible
for identifying, developing and managing service development projects within
the care group in accordance with the Trust project management framework and as
agreed with the Chief Executive Officer. Projects may have Trust-wide impact
and progress is regularly reported to the senior management groups and the Board of Directors.
Lead
role in the implementation of the Trusts quality improvement system (QIS)
across Clinical services within the care group, being a senior improvement and
coach leader and working with the Trusts improvement teams to identify service
improvement opportunities and engage staff in regular service improvement
events and related training activities.
Strategically
manages and collaboratively plans with appropriate external and internal
partners and commissioners to ensure that Clinical Services adapt within the
wider social care environment and meets the needs, not only of current service
users, but also those accessing services in the future.
Responsible
for implementing and maintaining effective means of involving service users and
carers in service development activity, in a meaningful way, through timely
consultation and engagement.
Financial Responsibilities
Personal
duty of care to complete time sheets, mileage forms, expense claim sheets etc., accurately and in a timely manner,
providing receipts as required.
Budget
holder for pay and non-pay budgets for medical staffing in area of remit.
Authorised signatory
status within revenue
expenditure limit.
Manages
external funding relating to research programmes.
Lead
responsibility for ensuring that high quality services are provided in a cost-
effective way, within budget and in accordance with the Trusts policies and
procedures, standing orders and standing financial instructions.
Lead
responsibility for developing and agreeing at Board level annual Cash Releasing
Efficiency Savings (CRES) and ensuring these are met.
Oversees
the development of Outline Business Cases for service developments that have
significant revenue and capital spend implications.
Responsibility for Physical Resources, Estates,
Hotel Services
Responsible
for maintaining asset registers.
Ensures
that effective systems are in place within the medical remit of the care group
for identifying and reporting security and maintenance issues.
Ensures
that effective stock control systems are in place throughout the care group Medical
Services.
Research, Audit and Governance
Takes
the lead role in developing research and development capability within the
Trusts Medical Services and in maximising opportunities to establish
partnerships with Universities and other external organisations. Secures
funding for the furtherance of research and development work.
Responsible
for the performance management of Medical Staff research and development
activity within the service.
Undertakes,
co-ordinates and implements appropriate research, complex audit and service
evaluation and provides leadership and advice to other staff undertaking
research and development activities within the Medical Directorate to help
develop and improve services to service users and carers.
Maintains
an active engagement with current developments in the field of Medicine
relating to mental health
Responsible for the systematic governance of practice
within the medical profession, actively engaging, and
ensuring appropriate clinical representation with trust-wide governance
programmes.
Participates
in the Trusts clinical governance programme, supports staff to evaluate
practice through clinical audit and ensures the implementation of action plans
to effect change as required.
Active
member of the Patient Safety Committee and Clinical Effectiveness Committee.
Makes
judgements and decisions on a wide range of highly complex operational and
strategic issues affecting Medical Services. This may require the analysis and
interpretation of data from multiple sources which may conflict and where differences
of opinion need to be resolved and where minimal or no guidance may be available.
Makes
decisions on challenging issues such as budget expenditure, cost improvement,
policy change, service level agreements and new developments requiring these decisions
to be communicated positively and appropriately to staff throughout the service.
Analyses
highly complex financial and operational information, performance targets etc.
to inform the business planning process at a strategic level.
Analyses
highly complex clinical information in order to provide expert advice in own
field regarding e.g. management of risk or therapeutic options.
Reporting
directly to the Executive Medical Director and Care Group Managing Director,works with minimal supervision, guided by own
interpretation of Trust policies, local and national commissioner standards
(e.g. CQUIN), national regulatory standards (e.g. CQC, NHSLA), national
guidance etc.
