Job summary
- Main area
- Head of Clinical Practice
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-CFYPS6223209
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Adult Eating Disorders
- Town
- Suffolk
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 gross per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/07/2024
Employer heading
Head of Clinical Practice/Clinical Psychologist
Band 8b
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
The post holder will be required to work as part of the Adult Eating Disorders Team within the Suffolk Care Group. This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care provision and outcomes.
The post holder is responsible for the oversight of the care provided by the Adult Eating Disorders Team.
The post holder will demonstrate excellent clinical skills and will be expected to have experience and advanced/ specialist knowledge in Eating Disorders. They will be expected to act as a source of advice on their area of specialism across the Care Group and may be required to support developments in their given area of specialism across the Care Group and the integrated system as part of the overall development of the service.
You will provide specialist advice and knowledge to staff and be able to support practitioners with clinical matters and decision making.
You will be actively involved in facilitating and resolution of complex or challenging clinical situations and it is expected that the postholder will co-work on a limited basis with care coordinators where role modelling/ peer intervention may be of benefit to clinical outcomes in complex cases
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to:
Provide clinical leadership within the Adult Eating Disorders Team teams, maintaining the integrity of these teams in line with the Trust’s organisational structure.
Work in partnership with clinicians, People Participation Leads and other stakeholders to support clinical engagement and leadership of quality, safety, performance and service development.
Lead and present complex, sensitive and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, carers, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.
Professional networking locally and nationally and disseminate/share information with other colleagues.
Chair / facilitate complex case reviews/ meetings which may involve other agencies.
Take the management/clinical lead role in partnership with the clinical/ multi-disciplinary team in managing complex cases.
Maintain advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical/practice area.
Contribute to identifying/reviewing/re-designing services in response to user need, ensuring a safe, high-quality level of service is maintained
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As an individual you should be clinically credible with good evidence of leadership and possession of these qualities. You will need the ability to represent your profession, care group and specific service provision at various forums, meetings and committees.
You will be subject to timescales and deadlines so will need to work efficiently and under pressure with the self-awareness, autonomy and skill to delegate as and when necessary. You will need to have the confidence to hold others to account and the professionalism to be held to account.
To develop and maintain evidence based, strategic plans for Adult Eating Disorders services according to NICE guidelines, to deliver the vision and strategy in alignment with the Trust’s business plan, local commissioning intentions, local healthcare alliances and national policy drivers.
To develop annual objectives for Adult Eating Disorders services, with a clear action plan, milestones and monitoring process; and aligned to the Trust’s annual objectives; CQC standards and QED accreditation.
To use investment monies, in line with Trust processes, to progress the strategic plans for services.
To develop services and lead change within Adult Eating Disorders services, implementing and evaluating the agreed strategic plans.
If you have any questions or are just curious to know more about the opportunity, please contact Colette Turner. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level qualification in a: clinical, management or leadership field or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Professional registration for nursing or other relevant clinical field.
Desirable criteria
- Management diploma / degree in management / leadership or equivalent vocational training or willingness to undertake training from first year of holding this pos
Experience
Essential criteria
- Leading health or social care services
- Leading service improvement
- Leading service improvement
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing health and social care integrated services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to help develop a culture that improves quality and safety in service areas
- Ability to communicate with people about difficult matters / in difficult situations across a diverse range of scenarios / situations.
- Ability to develop oneself and others in the area of leadership and service management.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent working knowledge of wider health and social care system and structures, policies, procedures and legislation relevant to Adult Eating Disorders services.
- Knowledge of management tools, organisational systems and processes relevant to managing in an NHS organisation
- Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and national drivers (10 year forward plan) underpinning services for people with mental health problems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Colette Turner
- Job title
- Transformation Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Toni Scales, Service Manager
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