Clinical Service Lead - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Service Lead.

The post-holder will provide will provide leadership to the Southwark acute inpatient wards and Health Based Place of Safety, ensuring that in conjunction with the Ward Managers and Responsible Clinicians they co-ordinate, develop and manage the service's strategic and operational plans.

The post holder will provide line management and clinical & operational leadership to the liaison services, working closely with the Consultant and Team Leaders to maximise effectiveness and efficiency of service provision.

The aim is to ensure integrated clinical, operational, quality and financial outcomes are achieved within the service line.

Duties include:

To performance manage the quality of the clinical services, including patient safety, patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes and compliance with the clinical pathways and associated protocols

To investigate and monitor SUIs, complaints, disciplinary issues, and ensure adverse outcomes are reported and action taken. Produce high quality, timely reports and action plans to ensure recommendations are implemented and lessons are learnt.

Responsible for ensuring high levels of operational effectiveness, including throughput, resource utilisation and the attainment of performance targets within service lines.

To ensure the delivery of service within the resources available whilst maintaining the quality of service provision.

To line manage and performance manage team leaders/managers in accordance with Trust standards and protocols

To assist in recruiting, motivating, training, developing and retaining appropriate staff enabling them to have the skills, expertise and discretion to function effectively in their roles.

To demonstrate clinical competence and role model effective clinical care delivery.

To recruit/develop team leaders/managers who meet the organisational standards and measure performance against leadership and management competencies adopted by the Trust.

To be a visible leader and be accessible to clinical staff, services users and carers.

For further details please refer to the attached JD.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you feel valued and appreciated.

Some of our amazing benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and annual leave.
Work life balance and supportive of a range of flexible working options
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Staff restaurants

Please see JD and Person Spec for full summary

Education/ Qualifications

Recognised Professional Qualification in Social Work (DipSW/CQSW), Mental Health Nursing (RMN), Psychology or any allied medical profession.

Evidence of continuing professional development.

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Experience

Senior Management Experience in running large multidisciplinary teams with significant clinical and business delivery targets.

Experience of managing budgets and resources effectively

Experience of leading and managing change to deliver organisational & Directorate goals

Experience of leading business planning processes and delivering targets within an agreed budget

Experience of working within the NHS or a related public sector organisation

Experience of individual and team Performance Management and Appraisals

Experience of involving service users and carers in the development of services

Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.

Experience of recruitment and selection of staff.

Leadership & Management of people

The clinical service lead is accountable for people management and development across their services. They will ensure people are focused and efficient in their roles and are achieving in individual and service KPIs.

Robust performance and attendance management will be fundamental to ensuring service objectives are achieved and problem areas identified at an early stage with solutions quickly implemented.

Management of resources / financial delivery and information resources

The clinical service lead will be key to operational delivery and manag