Clinical Director - West Sussex Division

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, supported by 3 Associate Clinical Directors, 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.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will play a key part in the leadership of the Trust and has responsibilities across the organisation as well as the specific division. Sussex Partnership is rated overall as "good" by CQC with an "outstanding" rating for caring.

This role will be a full time Consultant level post with the post holder working 8 PAs as Clinical Director and 2 PAs in a clinical Consultant Psychiatrist role (external applicants must agree the clinical post prior to interview based on one of the current vacancies within the division). The role attracts a responsibility payment in accordance with current Trust guidelines; this, along with Additional Programmed Activities, will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

They will work as part of a close team with the Divisional Managing Director and Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality and the Associate Clinical Directors. There is a recognition that clinical and strategic leadership needs to cross the Divisional directorate structures to ensure that there is pathway standardisation, consistency of clinical standards, practices and outcomes. The Clinical Director will work with other Divisions and corporate leadership to achieve this goal.

The clinical element of the role will be as a Consultant Psychiatrist in a clinical service within the division. This can be flexible depending on the qualifications, experience and personal preference of the successful candidate.

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