Clinical Editor

**Job Vacancy**: Clinical Fellow Clinical Editor for North Cumbria Hospital HealthPathways

Hospital HealthPathways offers clinicians locally agreed information to make the right decisions, together with patients, at the point of care. This will help us all:

- improve trust and relationships across the care continuum
- use capacity more efficiently
- reduce variation in care
- save time for patients and clinicians

The local Clinical Editor must be someone who would use Hospital HealthPathways in the course of their ‘day job’, and who understands the types and brevity of information needed by secondary care teams (including Doctors, Nurses, and Allied Health Professionals).

The key functions of the local Hospital HealthPathways Clinical Editor are:
1. Work with the Work-Programme team and Work-Groups to identify priorities for pathways localisation or development
3. Gather the required information, particularly the clinical information on how assessment, management, and referral are, or will be, performed locally
4. Provide the information to the Hospital HealthPathways team for editing and layout in the HealthPathways style
5. Review the new draft pathways produced by the Hospital HealthPathways team for accuracy and completeness
7. Deliver education to relevant stakeholders relating to the pathways

A successful local Clinical Editor is likely to have these personal attributes:

- Systems thinker: able to distil a simple and clear process from complex information and perspectives
- Whole-of-System understanding: to see relationships and impacts across the continuum of care
- A strong belief in quality improvement and the role of documentation in this
- Knowledge of key providers and individuals: i.e. knowing who to involve
- Sufficient seniority and track record to debate and have credibility with primary care and secondary care clinicians
- Judgement and the ability to compromise and negotiate: e. Knowing when to push hard, and when to ease-off

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

The key functions of the local Hospital HealthPathways Clinical Editor are:
1. Work with the Work-Programme team and Work-Groups to identify priorities for pathways localisation or development.
3. Gather the required information, particularly the clinical information on how assessment, management, and referral are, or will be, performed locally.
4. Provide the information to the Hospital HealthPathways team for editing and layout in the HealthPathways style.
5. Review the new draft pathways produced by the Hospital HealthPathways team for accuracy and completeness.
7. Deliver education to relevant stakeholders relating to the pathways.

A successful local Clinical Editor is likely to have these personal attributes:

- Systems thinker: e. able to distil a simple and clear process from complex information and perspectives.
- Whole-of-System understanding: able to see relationships and impacts across the continuum of care (patient responsibility, general practice services, other community services, secondary care services and the voluntary sector).
- A strong belief in quality improvement and the role of documentation in this.
- Knowledge of key providers and individuals: i.e. knowing who to involve.
- Sufficient seniority and track record to debate and have credibility with primary care and secondary care clinicians (requires a good understanding of both sets of perspectives and issues i.e. a foot in both camps).
- Judgement and the ability to compromise and negotiate: Knowing when to push hard, and when to ease-off.
- Have strong presentation skills