Clinical Lead for Cardiac Services

The purpose of this post is to provide advanced, specialist, clinical leadership to the countywide cardiac service, prioritising quality and safety of care provision, minimizing incidents and risk and ensuring a robust and resilient management structure is maintained.

To work alongside the operations Manager to ensure service spec, quality standards and KPI's are achieved by the service.

Leading on transformation and projects to optimise service efficiencies and productivity, analysing data and working with the performance team and clinical effectiveness teams.

Lead on clinical governance for the service with better integration of cardiac rehabilitation and the heart failure service in alignment with the five-year plan.

Act as a resource for the professional and clinical development of CPFT staff within this specialist service and across other CPFT services.

To represent CPFT at the regional and local cardiac networks, advocating for patients managed in the community with complex cardiac conditions.

Main duties of the job

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this.

To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.

To comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these.

To comply at all times with the Trust's Information Governance related policies. Staffs are required to respect the confidentiality of information about staff, patients and Trust business and in particular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiable information in line with the Data Protection Act. All staff are responsible for ensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, and fit for the purposes for which it is intended.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.