Deputy Clinical Director

· Ensure Key Performance Indicators are regularly met for all services within division · Oversight on Safety and Quality indicators for all services to ensure they are regularly met in collaboration with Medical Professional Leads · Supporting patient flow by having oversight on bed flow services, clinically ready for discharge patients, complex long-stay patients, supporting consultants to seek second opinions, supporting complex case meetings · Supporting Medical Professional Leads to ensure supportive management of leave and appropriate cross-cover to ensure maintenance of continuity of care · Supporting Medical Professional Leads in ongoing medical recruitment · Attending relevant divisional management meetings, · Weekly review of performance and quality data with service managers, clinical matrons and consultants · Oversight of timely response to PALS concerns and complaints · Deputising Clinical Director when needed representing division in Trust-wide meetings.

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full registration with the GMC and license to practice
Desirable criteria
• MRCPsych (or equivalent - as evidenced by inclusions on the Specialist Register if trained overseas)
• Project Management experience
• Training as an investigator, Sufficient experience as a consultant (minimum 3 year).
• Managing time and ensuring deadlines are met
Desirable criteria
• Experience of budgetary control/management
• Proven track level of achieving healthcare targets
• Experience of participating in or leading programmes of change within the public sector, Excellent communication skills, written and oral
• Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations
• Ability to influence, motivate and lead staff to deliver challenging targets and required changes.
• Negotiating skills and ability to manage conflict
Desirable criteria
• Ability to build successful teams
• Ability to present complex data
• Ability to promote and market services, Ability to see the strategic picture and understand the importance of service alignment to Trust vision and values.
• Problem solving skills
• Business focused
• Sensitive to clinical and political demands
• Objectivity
Desirable criteria
• Critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets.
• Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change, Good organisational skills, Record of pro-active performance management., IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems., Excellent personal integrity, personal effectiveness and self-awareness
• Maintains personal training and development, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim it to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disabilities within the UK.
With a workforce of over 4,300 people and an annual income of some £330 million this year, the Trust provides integrated health and social care services through a network of community and inpatient settings, serving diverse communities across Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Norfolk. As a University NHS Foundation Trust, HPFT continues to develop strong links with the University of Hertfordshire, providing excellent learning and development opportunities, as well as strengthening our clinical research capability. Whilst it is a challenging period of the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT following our CQC rating of Outstanding award in 2019. We are currently undertaking our "Great Together" strategy for 2023 to 2028. This strategy has been meticulously developed and co-produced in collaboration with our service users, carers, staff, partners, and local communities. It gives us a well-defined roadmap to realise our vision of providing exceptional care and achieving outstanding outcomes. We are dedicated to addressing inequalities and equity, developing our workforce, and fostering a dynamic learning environment, all while engaging in robust partnerships to deliver the highest quality care., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional