Clinical Director

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Reading; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

27 days’ annual leave rising with long

NHS pension scheme

Learning and career development

Cycle to Work

Wellbeing tools

Staff networks for equality

Free parking across Trust sites

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Director for All Age Mental Health, Community Learning Disabilities and Eating Disorders. You will provide strategic clinical leadership and drive service transformation, ensuring safe, evidence-based care and outstanding outcomes for local people.

The post requires substantial senior leadership experience within mental health services, strong governance and quality improvement track record, and the ability to influence system

Qualifications

• Current registration with a professional regulatory body (GMC/NMC/HCPC or SWE).
• Significant senior clinical leadership experience in mental health services.
• Experience leading quality, safety, governance and service improvement.
• Strong strategic leadership and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible professional leadership for quality assurance and governance across the portfolio.
• Work with operational, nursing and professional leads to monitor safety and clinical effectiveness.
• Oversee learning from incidents, complaints and safeguarding reviews; drive improvements.
• Present assurance to the executive leadership and Board in line with regulatory requirements.

Skills

Senior leadership

Quality improvement

Clinical governance

Strategic leadership

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Influencing skills

Education

Registered clinician with GMC/NMC/HCPC/Social Work England

Job description

We are seeking an exceptional clinical leader to join as Clinical Director for All Age Mental Health, Community Learning Disabilities and Eating Disorders.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for providing strategic clinical leadership and ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based care and outstanding outcomes for local people. Working as a key member of the Trust's senior leadership team, you will shape clinical strategy, drive quality improvement, lead service transformation and support delivery of the Trust's strategic objectives.

The role is open to registered healthcare professionals across medical*, nursing, psychology, AHPs and social work. Applicants must have substantial senior leadership experience within mental health services and a strong track record of delivering quality improvement, clinical governance and service transformation. Knowledge and experience of learning disability services would be advantageous.

You will be an inspiring and collaborative leader, capable of working across organisational boundaries, influencing system partners, leading multidisciplinary teams through change. The post includes maintaining professional registration through a small clinical commitment or clinically focused professional activity.

• Medics will be paid on the medical pay terms and conditions.

What You'll Be Doing

The Clinical Director will provide visible professional leadership for quality assurance and clinical governance across the portfolio. Working with operational, nursing and professional leads, you will ensure that robust governance arrangements are in place to monitor quality, safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience; oversee learning from incidents, complaints, audits and safeguarding reviews; and use performance and outcome data to identify risk and drive continuous improvement. You will support constructive oversight through relevant governance forums, ensure that agreed actions are delivered and provide clear assurance to the Trust’s executive leadership and Board in line with regulatory and statutory requirements.

Essential Requirements

• Current registration with an appropriate professional regulatory body (e.g. GMC, NMC, HCPC or Social Work England).
• Significant senior clinical leadership experience within mental health services, Learning Disabilities or Eating Disorder services.
• Experience of leading quality, safety, governance and service improvement.
• Strong strategic leadership, partnership working and influencing skills.
• Experience of leading complex change across multidisciplinary services.
• Knowledge of learning disability services.
• Experience across all-age pathways

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Theresa Wyles Job title: Chief Operating Officer Email address: [e-mail]