Director of Clinical Services- 12 months fixed term
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Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health illness to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
Set in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston, close to Birmingham City centre, Priory Hospital Woodbourne is set in beautiful grounds, conveniently located for access to the West Midlands motorway network and with good local public transport links.
Our unique range of services gives our colleagues the opportunity to develop skills and experience of working with a broad range of mental health conditions across four mental health service lines, across the hospital's seven wards.
Woodbourne hospital provides a diverse range of inpatient services. These include acute and psychiatric intensive care services for adults. A specialist adult Eating Disorder service and a private addictions service. Across seven wards, our multi-disciplinary teams deliver personalised treatment programmes to our patients and have established an excellent reputation for providing the highest standards of care.
Job Advert Role Description
The DOCs plays a key part on developing the hospital and providing both operational and clinical leadership. The post holder must be able to demonstrate an ability to lead, manage multiple issues simultaneously, whilst acting with integrity and showing passion for change.
The Docs reports to the hospital Director, and alongside the associate director of clinical services, is responsible for the clinical service operation. The Doc forms part of the senior management team structure within the hospital.
Job responsibilities
• Deputises for Hospital Director in their absence.
• Overall responsibility for all clinical departments performance and governance.
• Oversight of site clinical staffing, and ownership of clinical department budgets.
• Ensures delivery of the highest level of clinical and therapeutic care together with ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and current legislation, meeting quality standards and delivering against quality performance indicators.
• Provides leadership, organisation and co-ordination to ensure effective clinical governance
• Manages the delivery of the clinical services business plan ensuring the effective and efficient management and control of staffing, budgets, materials and equipment.
• Promotes an effective working relationship across the multidisciplinary teams.
• Responsible for ensuring that Ward Managers are using the e-Rostering system effectively and are rostering at least 12 weeks in advance.
• Accountable for ensuring timely completion and implementation of action plans in respect of regulatory and corporate requirements.
• To ensure relevant staff work within the standards and frameworks of professional codes of conduct and to take remedial action as appropriate.
• Reviews staffing on a daily basis, ensuring compliance against the staffing ladders and reviews trends, under or over staffing and puts in place actions to remedy.
• Responsible for ensuring the staffing models are adhered to in the clinical services team, maintaining safe staffing levels.
• Manages and develops a highly skilled and motivated workforce.
• Responsible for ensuring that sound recruitment processes and retention plans are in place to drive down turnover and raise engagement.
• Ensures that all employees have the opportunities to further develop their careers and encourages and supports CPD applications.
• Ensures effective management of the relationship with Higher Education Institutes to support placements for all learners.
• Responsible for delivering site career pathways for clinical staff, including talent mapping and succession planning.
• Responsible for ensuring that all colleagues receive clinical supervision in accordance with professional guidelines and carries out management supervision as appropriate.
• Deliver coaching and training as necessary in relation to developing and improving quality and practice.
• Ensure site objectives are being met and encouraging a high quality of service.
• As part of the Senior Management team will carry out on-call duties as directed by the Hospital Director.
• Contributes to the development of Priory policies, procedures, processes and initiatives.
• Provide line management for the Associate Director of Clinical Services (if within site establishment) and Ward Managers.
• You will be expected to provide cover and support to the wider team and site as and when needed
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About us
As one of the UK's leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services, Priory promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development. Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.
As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your Pre-Employment checks. Your vaccination status will not affect any offer of employment and will be held in line with GDPR requirements. We thank you for your understanding.
Disclosure
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.
Closing Date
30/11/2024