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Clinical Lead – Heatherwood Court

2 months ago

Pontypridd, United Kingdom Iris Care Group Full time

Clinical Lead – Heatherwood Court

Location: Pontypridd Salary: - £57720 Hours: 37.5

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Low Secure hospital in South Wales for a Forensic Clinical Lead. The applicant needs to have leadership experience within a secure setting, with a focus on quality, continuous improvement and clinical delivery. The hospital has a comprehensive Governance structure in place, but it is hoped the applicant will be a visionary with ambition to develop the service into an outstanding clinical setting.

The Clinical Lead will be pivotal in leading and managing priority areas such as:

Patient safety Governance and assurance systems Strengthening and developing the evidence based therapeutic options and clinical pathways delivered by the service Lead on improving service user experience and coproduction Risk identification and management Actively lead, promote and engage staff and patients in the development and implementation of the service’s clinical vision, strategy and quality improvements

The post holder will work as an integral part of the team with a specialist role in the development and implementation of services and care pathways. They will provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to colleagues.

Clinical Lead Job Description

Communication / Relationship skills

to provide clinical leadership, guidance and support to all clinical staff across the service, including support around disagreements in clinical practice to ensure robust clinical supervision arrangements are in place for all clinical staff across the service to attend Clinical Governance meetings and provide regular updates and assurance in relation to governance of the service to lead on ensuring a clear focus on patient involvement and patient experience across the service, demonstrating both engagement and improvement to lead on the development of quality improvement plans for the service. Ensure that a strategy is in place to monitor clinical outcomes and reflect on this information to drive service improvement To ensure that untoward incidents are managed using the Risk Register system, and these are escalated as required to commissioning, safeguarding, regulatory and NHS contractual bodies. To promote, participate in and actively support the development of strategy, service developments and implementation of new clinical models, guidelines and best practice across the service To work closely with the Hospital Director to ensure an appropriate use of staff, finance and other resources across the service, providing specific clinical advice and support as required To promote and lead research and audit activity across the service To lead on ongoing development of leadership capacity within the service

Knowledge, training and experience

Have achieved, through training and experience, a depth and breadth of specialist knowledge of Clinical Leadership, with a commitment for continuous professional development Have evidence of Management and Leadership Development geared towards clinical leadership Specialist knowledge and understanding of regulatory framework requirements Ability to interpret relevant changes to national policies and guidelines and then to influence to ensure appropriate changes to practice and service delivery reflect these Manage highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information and engage individuals and key governance groups around this by producing clear, sound, accurate and reasoned findings, reports, conclusions and recommendations The ability to understand, integrate and support action in response to audit, guidelines, investigations and internal and external reviews in proportionate and fair manner To be currently engaged in active clinical practice related to forensic mental health To ensure student nurses on clinical placement are appropriately supervised, assessed and have an effective learning experience Has up to date knowledge of role and responsibilities under the Mental Health Act 1983 and its application in practice An understanding of NICE guidelines relevant to patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder and complex trauma. An understanding of psychological formulation as required by NICE guidance relevant to the patient.

Analysis, Problem Solving and Judgement Skills

Demonstrable skills in leadership and driving the strategic direction of a team Review in collaboration with others highly sensitive information and reports (i.e. serious untoward incidents, complaints, clinical investigations, risk registers etc) and identify themes and trends as appropriate, identifying and highlighting opportunities to learn Have a high level of analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources, including highly complex facts or situations and present these in a clear concise manner Have the ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions Commitment and understanding of data driven improvement Will have a high level of critical thinking skills Keep abreast of new developments locally and nationally and advise on their implications for the service and organisation Responsible for conducting clinical audits and other evaluations using research and methodology relating to the clinical governance, risk management and safety agenda as required Coordinate and ensure that the service delivers plans for compliance with all local and national service standards, develop / update relevant policies and is well prepared for any internal or external inspections and/or accreditations Lead and support others to recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations including the assessment and management of risk. Understanding of the impact of clinical acuity on all aspects of operational performance including staff wellbeing, and ability to design management systems around these factors.

Planning and Organisational Skills

Contribute to ensuring that the agreed vision, strategy and values of the organisation are realised Support the development and attainment of the service’s objectives contribute to the maintenance of clear agreed strategic direction for the service which is both owned and by all staff groups and consistent with the overall aims of the organisation work with others to coordinate identified priority areas through steering groups, project teams and key staff with a clear effective and efficient mechanism for communicating new requirements and changes to existing requirements work with management to manage project plans with milestones and deliverables for all aspects of the project

Physical Skills

advanced keyboard skills and knowledge of software products, for example Microsoft Office, for data manipulation, analysis and report writing

Patient Care

accountable and responsible with others for ensuring a climate consistent with the learning, culture and leadership for high quality, individualised care working with others to respond to clinical complaints and clinical disagreements, with ability to mediate differing views identify and respond appropriately to any Adult Safeguarding issues in line with the organisational policy Establishing systems and processes to ensure that all patients are supported to engage in therapeutic treatment interventions delivered by the hospital, to promote recovery and reduce length of stay.

Policy and Service Development implementation

provide specialist clinical advice, based on NICE and other good practice guidance, on the development and implementation of key policies relevant to the care and wellbeing of those that use the service work with others to ensure that the principles of clinical governance are embedded within the service and all staff understand their responsibility for service quality and patient safety ensure mechanisms are in place to monitor patient safety and clinical outcomes be conversant with all relevant policies and procedures that affect service delivery

Responsible for financial and physical resources

shared responsibility for achieving agreed financial objectives across the service ensures that robust arrangements are in place to provide high quality care demonstrating best value and recognising the need for balancing finance and quality Responsibility for the physical resources and tools for the job required to support high quality clinical care

Responsible for Human Resources

To role model attitudes and behaviours that will foster cultures of expert clinical care in with the organisation’s values and vision To work with others to promote the conditions required for safe reliable effective care. To provide leadership supervision to ward managers and other senior nursing staff as required. To provide and promote clinical supervision and staff wellbeing within the hospital.

Research and Development

The post holder will be required to carry out audit, and quality improvement activity on a regular basis that will be used to inform service development and service improvement. This may form part of formal research projects. Will have a leadership role in innovation and diffusion of evidence-based practice Ensure that outcomes for people who use our service, and their carers are measured and evaluated, and learning applied to the content of future interventions Responsible for maintaining physical or electronic databases needed to perform the role Ability to create effective and efficient systems for gathering and analysing data Adherence to all regulatory and legislative information governance.

Effective leadership

Deputise as appropriate for the Hospital Director Lead and ensure the promotion of patient dignity, equality, diversity and human rights Always ensures staff practice in accordance with their Code of Professional Conduct and raise any concerns with the Hospital Director

Person Specification

Post: Forensic Clinical Lead

ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS Professional Qualification in healthRelevant higher degree e.g. MSc, PhD or other additional clinical qualifications.

Membership of national professional body.

Additional experience / CPD activity relating to nursing and other models of care and treatment for people with complex trauma who may have a diagnosis of personality disorder (e.g. DBT, MBT, Safewards, STEPPS, Structured Clinical Management, Relational Security Explorer)

Additional CPD / experience of use of patient safety and quality improvement methodology relevant to the hospital (e.g. PDSA, PSIRF, RCA).

Additional CPD / training in healthcare leadership and management and / or clinical supervision.

ELIGIBILITY Fully registered with appropriate professional body CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWELDGE AND EXPERIENCE Knowledge of relevant specialist services

Proven commitment to improving clinical care

Excellent clinical skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Able to manage clinical and systemic complexity and uncertainty

Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others

Experience of clinical governance processes

Knowledge of UK hospital systems

Knowledge of legislation relevant to the hospital (MHA, MCA)

Knowledge of current regulatory requirements in relation to patient safety, duty of candour and duty of quality processes.

Commitment to the principles of clinical supervision and experience of using and providing clinical supervision in mental health services.

Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within comparable service.

Experience of working with patients subject to forensic sections of the mental health act.

ACADEMIC SKILLS AND LIFELONG LEARNING Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training

Experience of regular active participation in clinical audit

Participated in continuous professional development

Ability to critically appraise published research and clinical evidence and embed into service practice

Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post

Has led clinical audit leading to service change

Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken

Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation

Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement

PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL QUALITIES Shows empathy and sensitivity

Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively

Manages own time, workload and prioritises work

Able to use electronic records and use IT for e-mail, internet and office software

Ability to deal effectively with pressure

Works cooperatively within MDT and able to delegate appropriately

Evidence of commitment to appraisal and revalidation

Reference awareness, knowledge and impact of equality and diversity issues

Able to contain and support the emotional responses of staff when responding to crisis

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Highly skilled in use of electronic records and IT at work LEADERSHIP Reflects on own work performance and behaviour, seeking and acting on feedback

Experience of leading on clinical governance activities

Commitment to service user involvement and engagement

Knowledge of structure and management of the organisation

Evidence of commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement processes and service design

Able to adapt to and lead service change in the face of barriers and clinical complexity.

Knowledge and experience of complaints and incident investigations and commitment to embedding learning into the service

Experience of service management, strategy development, business planning, liaison with commissioners