Director of Children's Services

1 month ago

Crawley West Sussex, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

One will be leading Adult Services in West Sussex the other will be leading our Trust-wide Specialist Division including Forensic Services, Learning Disability & Autism Services and Children & Young People's Mental Health. These are newly developed posts that will join two Adult Services Divisional East Sussex, Brighton & Hove and Specialist Division as we re-structure to drive transformation.


A relocation package of 8000 is available, where appropriate.
The Divisional Clinical Directors report to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and are responsible for clinical effectiveness and outcomes of the care pathways in the divisions.


Working alongside a Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality and a Managing Director, the Divisional team operates with the support of a business unit, program office and digital hub.


The new Divisional leadership teams are supported by a management development program with the Chief Medical, Chief Nursing and Chief Operating Officers.


In addition, all Clinical directors contribute to on call rotas (Consultant or Director on calls as appropriate).
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The Clinical Director will have responsibility for ensuring the best quality care and outcomes are delivered by the services in their division for the local population served within the resources available and in partnership with others.


The Clinical Director will have clinical leadership of the division, ensuring the clinical care pathways are enabled to deliver the national and local strategies and for the achievement of high quality performance and clinical outcomes.


You will also work as part of a close team with the Divisional Managing Director and Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality. Lead on all medical job planning and recruitment in partnership with the Division Lead Psychiatrist.
To provide the clinical leadership and support the development of long-term strategic plans for the division based upon interpretation of national mental health policy and strategy and considering the Trust aims and objectives and projected needs of the client group.
To provide clinical leadership and support to the Managing Director and Divisional Director for Nursing and Quality for the Division in overseeing the financial position and ensuring that services are provided within the agreed financial envelope whilst maintaining appropriate clinical standards.
To provide clinical leadership and perspectives on service change programmes that delivers Cost Improvement Programme savings as well as improvements in quality and patient care.
To provide clinical leadership in building a culture of continuous improvement of services as demonstrated by Quality Improvement, clinical audit and other forms of benchmarking. Proactively ensuring that the learning from serious incidents, near misses and complaints is acted upon and communicated effectively throughout the trust, this includes facilitating sessions to promote learning.
To provide leadership in building and embedding a Just and Learning Cultures within the Division, this includes openness and responsibilities under Duty of Candour.
To provide clinical leadership in developing excellent relationships with GPs, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Acute Hospitals and the Sustainability & Transformation Partnerships
To act as an ambassador for the Trust in key clinical commissioning forums, including the Sussex Clinical Senate and the ICB
To lead on the development of the research and audit strategies and implementation plans within services as agreed by the Service and Trust. Good understanding of change management
Ability to engage with staff and motivate to improve performance

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