Clinical Director Endocrinology

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust seeks a Clinical Director to lead services within the Barts Cancer Centre, ensuring high standards of quality and safety in patient care. The role involves implementing quality improvement initiatives and supporting clinical governance, with a focus on collaboration and effective leadership in a high-performing healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experience at senior clinician level or Band 8c+ for non-medical staff.
• Significant leadership and management experience.
• Track record of clinical governance and patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead the services in the Barts Cancer Centre and ensure delivery against quality and safety standards.
• Implement a programme of quality improvement and support clinical governance.
• Provide assurance on compliance and actions from external inspections.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Clinical governance

Interpersonal skills

Education

Evidence of continuing professional development

Job description

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The Clinical Director will support the triumvirate – the Divisional Director, Associate Directors of Nursing and the Divisional Manager in leading each of the services in the Barts Cancer Centre. In supporting the triumvirate, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery of these services against the goals and standards for quality, safety, activity, financial management and workforce. The Clinical Director will have a strong line of partnership working and collaboration with other senior leaders.
Clinical directors report to the Divisional Director within the relevant division, with a professional line to the Medical Director for St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Our current clinical director has completed three years in the role, and we are therefore re-advertising all the roles now. Current and potential clinical directors are encouraged to consider whether you have the skills, drive and personality to carry out this important and demanding role. You need not be based within the existing specialty to apply

Main duties of the job

• To implement a comprehensive programme of quality improvement activity (such as Clinical Audit, end to end integrated care pathways with variance analysis; quality accounts, and evidence-based practice).

• With the Divisional Director and site Medical Director to develop systems to enable services within the site to benchmark and audit their practice to improve the patient experience.

• To ensure clinical standards meet best practice standards and recommendations of national service frameworks are being met and implemented.

• Establish clear lines of responsibility and accountability for overall aspects of clinical care, utilising feedback loops to clinical colleagues and the outcomes of care-based audit.

• To ensure effective implementation of policies aimed at managing risk, overseeing arrangements for preventing, reporting, investigating and acting upon adverse incidents, and identification and management of poor performance that contributes to poor team working and / or clinical risk.

• To ensure that within each clinical area, effective systems and processes are established to enable the delivery of the clinical governance agenda.

• To ensure the dissemination of learning from good practice on serious incidents and complaints from the site and other Trust hospital sites.

• To develop robust risk and reporting systems to provide appropriate assurance to the site Board and its Committees.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To support the Divisional Director and site Medical Director to ensure that a robust and clearly understood approach is taken to patient and healthcare governance, including clinical risk.

• To provide assurance to the Divisional Director and site Medical Director of the outcome and implications of inspections conducted by external bodies (for example, CQC, NHSI and NHSE) and ensure that recommended actions are fully implemented and appropriately reviewed to ensure compliance within the relevant site/speciality.

• To support the Divisional Director and site Medical Director to discharge their responsibility to develop and communicate the site vision for clinical governance and galvanise and support staff in promoting commitment to governance and risk.

• To deliver high quality patient care, as measured through clinical and non-clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction metrics and other supporting data, within agreed budgets and associated resources

Person specification

Experience

• Works at a senior clinician level or Band 8c or above for non-medical staff
• Significant experience of leadership and management
• Experience of clinical governance and of the measures to ensure patient safety
• Track record of innovation
• Track record of managing and developing staff
• Track record of addressing poor performance
• Track record of achieving financial targets
• Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction
• A record of partnership working
• Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction

Skills

• Demonstrable leadership skills
• Able to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear vision and sense of direction
• Ability to define and implement policy development at directorate level
• Communication skills, verbal and written Interpersonal skills, able to influence and motivate
• Able to prioritise and manage competing demands
• Able to lead continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies with a multidisciplinary team.

Knowledge

• A good understanding of the current context of health and social care, and of clinical learning and research
• A good understanding of the specific issues in East London
• A broad understanding of the systems for primary care, social care and commissioning
• Knowledge of the Trust priorities

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development

Other – Attitudes and Values

• Understands and supports the vision and values of the Trust
• Acts as a role model for senior as well as more junior colleagues
• Team player, able to develop a culture that values colleagues and enables them to engage in problem solving and decision making
• Motivated for the role
• Provides a role model for clinical leaders