Divisional Clinical Director - West Sussex Division

The Divisional Clinical Director will report to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and 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. Working alongside the Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality, Managing Director, and three 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 The new Divisional leadership teams are supported by a management development program with the Chief Medical, Chief Nursing and Chief Operating Officers. The post will include 2 sessions of a clinical role (from available posts in the division) appropriate to the post holder; we welcome and encourage interested applicants to contact us to explore what clinical opportunities are available. In addition, all Clinical directors contribute to on call rotas (Consultant or Director on calls as appropriate)., 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, 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. You will play a key part in the leadership of the Trust, and have responsibilities across the organisation as well as the specific division. Main Responsibilities - Clinical Director role:

• To appoint and manage the Associate Clinical Directors and Professional Leads within the Division and to develop clinical leadership across all the services. Oversee medical job planning and recruitment in partnership with the Division Lead Psychiatrist.
• To provide the clinical leadership and support the development of long-term strategic plans for the division based upon interpretation of national mental health policy and strategy and considering the Trust aims and objectives and projected needs of the client group.
• To provide clinical leadership and support to the Managing Director and Divisional Director for Nursing and Quality for the Division in overseeing the financial position and ensuring that services are provided within the agreed financial envelope whilst maintaining appropriate clinical standards.
• To provide clinical leadership and perspectives on service change programmes that delivers Cost Improvement Programme savings as well as improvements in quality and patient care.
• To provide clinical leadership in building a culture of continuous improvement of services as demonstrated by Quality Improvement, clinical audit and other forms of benchmarking. Proactively ensuring that the learning from serious incidents, near misses and complaints is acted upon and communicated effectively throughout the trust, this includes facilitating sessions to promote learning.
• To provide leadership in building and embedding a Just and Learning Cultures within the Division, this includes openness and responsibilities under Duty of Candour.
• To provide clinical leadership in developing excellent relationships with GPs, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Acute Hospitals and the Sustainability & Transformation Partnerships
• To represent the Trust when appropriate in handling media, CCG or NCB enquiries, or in communicating complex or contentious information to staff around service developments, serious incidents or homicides.
• To act as an ambassador for the Trust in key clinical commissioning forums, including the Sussex Clinical Senate and the ICB
• To lead on the development of the research and audit strategies and implementation plans within services as agreed by the Service and Trust. This includes making the final decision on the appropriateness of any clinical research studies that are being proposed within the division.
  
  Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships., MRCPsych or equivalent professional qualification at Consultant level, Experience of clinical or professional leadership role within services
• Good understanding of change management
• Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services
• Ability to engage with staff and motivate to improve performance
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities. As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level. If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team., The West Sussex Division provides a broad range of adult mental health services to the whole of West Sussex. There is a total of around 1,200 WTE staff in the division with a turnover more than £76M. The Division hosts both acute, intensive care, older adult and rehabilitation inpatient services and adult, rehabilitation and older adult community services. This is an exciting time to join our trust as we adopt our new Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams in conjunction with our partners and we adopt our transformation programme for our acute services., In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role. Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.