Associate Clinical Director Crisis and Specialist Teams City & Hackney

East London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking an Associate Clinical Director to join their Directorate Management Team in London. The perfect candidate will provide essential leadership for crisis and specialist teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality mental health services. This role demands excellent communication and management skills, with a focus on developing strong relationships within the organization and with external stakeholders. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in a highly respected trust.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Relocation support of up to £10,000

Qualifications

• Experience of senior clinical leadership.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex work dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical and strategic leadership to crisis and specialist teams.
• Manage consultant psychiatrists and doctors.
• Oversee clinical governance and financial oversight.

Skills

Communication

Team Management

Cultural Sensitivity

Service Development

Education

Senior Clinician, Consultant or equivalent non-medical staff

Job description

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Directorate Management Team and provide senior clinical and strategic leadership to our crisis and specialist teams in City & Hackney. You will have a range of managerial responsibilities within the service, from line management of consultant psychiatrists and doctors in the teams, to strategic leadership, clinical governance, and involvement in financial oversight. The Directorate Management Team is based at Brooksby House, Homerton Hospital.

Main duties of the job

There is 1 Associate Clinical Director post (0.2FTE) available which has been vacant for several years - it is a fixed-term 3 years appointment.

This is a key posts within the directorate. The delivery of safe, high quality, value-led and sustainable crisis and specialist mental heatlh health services are a key element of the mental health services provision in City & Hackney.

The Crisis and Specialist teams include, but may not be limited to, Mental Health Liaison and the Crisis Pathway (HTT, CAT, Crisis Café, HBPoS), Perinatal Services, neurodevelopmental teams, and Psychological Services including SPS.

This role requires particular liaison skills to develop good working relationships with bodies outside of ELFT which also have responsibility for the people of City and Hackney.

Working for our organisation

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Senior Clinician, Consultant or equivalent non-medical staff
  
  

Personal Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage complex work dynamics in, and between teams
• Commitment to working with service users in ongoing services development.
• Cultural sensitivity, ability to work with a diverse population.
• Ability to develop and sustain relationships with external stakeholders
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of senior clinical leadership
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Training in Leadership and Management
  
  

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Other Reasons To Apply

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

What Next?

If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!

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