Associate Director of Clinical Services - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Priory Healthcare

Priory Healthcare

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you have what it takes to become our Associate Director of Clinical Services. If successful you will be able to shape this new and exciting role at Woodbourne Priory Hospital.

You will report to the Director of Clinical Services and form part of the Hospital Senior Management Team and, as such, contribute to our quality agenda to ensure care standards and regulatory requirements are fully satisfied.

You will have overall responsibility for setting forward looking performance and quality standards, and reviewing existing processes through a suite of Indicators to track and monitor our progress.

As well as, proactively and continually leading and embedding quality throughout the service and service lines with the support of our Quality and Compliance lead.

You will play a key part in developing and delivering Woodbourne's Quality strategy, providing clinical leadership to the team.

Alongside the Hospital Director and Director of Clinical Services you will support the hospital to ensure we are always ready for regulatory and contractual visits and inspections, to ensure the delivery of the highest level of clinical and therapeutic care.

Set in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston, close to Birmingham City centre, Priory Hospital Woodbourne is conveniently located for access to the West Midlands motorway network and with very good local public transport links.

Woodbourne hospital provides a diverse range of inpatient services.

These include acute and psychiatric intensive care services for adults, Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, 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 Purpose

Reporting into the Director of Clinical Services, the Associate Director of Clinical Services forms part of the Hospital Senior Management Team and, as such, contributes to ensuring quality indicators, care standards and regulatory requirements are fully satisfied.

The role will have overall responsibility for setting forward looking performance and quality standards, and reviewing existing processes through a suite of Indicators to track and monitor site progress.

This as well as, proactively and continually leading and embedding quality throughout the service and service lines.

Responsibilities:

The Associate DoCS plays a key part in developing and delivering the Hospital Quality strategy, providing clinical leadership to the team.

- Alongside the HD & DoCs support site and in preparing for announced regulatory inspections, and Contractual requirements.

- 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.

- Leadership of the site Quality plans, - Provides leadership, organisation and co-ordination to ensure effective clinical governance. - Facilitating and supporting the implementation and maintenance of the overall site Governance.

Working with wards, departments to facilitate the delivery of the Governance agenda and embed learning, evidence based practice and improvement in patient care.

- Providing advice on quality governance issues to all staff at site, promoting high standards of care and development of clinical practice.

- Point of contact for the Divisional Nursing and Quality Team - Ensuring that all auditing and governance requirements are met at site including participation and compliance with the Priory Audit Calendar.

- Developing and contributing to the Governance Reports and relevant regular reports - Attending, contributing, sharing outcomes and learnings from a number of forums including Clinical Governance, Health and Safety, Risk and Reducing Restrictive Practice.

- Have oversight of Hospital restrictive practices and implementing, auditing and review of strategies to reduce them.

- Facilitating compliance with the company incident and serious incident policy and support staff in the investigation of serious incidents in line with company policy.

This includes support with 24/72hr notifications and TIRs.

- Leading investigations and reviews, including serious incidents, thematic reviews, safeguarding whistle blowing complaints, providing reports within the given timescales and in accordance with policies - Supporting patient and staff safety culture and promoting learning from incidents and complaints by promoting sharing of learnings across site and, where appropriate, across the division.

- Supports the DoCS to ensures effective management of the relationship with Higher Education Institutes to support placements for all learners.

- Works with the Site Safeguarding Lead to ensure Safeguarding log is updated, appropriate levels of Level 4 trained safeguarding leads, and updated O