Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant anaesthetist
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 7 months (31 March 2025: Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Part time - 2 sessions per week (8 hours)
- Job ref
- 990-SW-I&T-6476023-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Flexible within South West geography
- Town
- Taunton
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Regional Clinical Lead System Improvement
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Regional Clinical Lead for System Improvement & Transformation will support the Medical Director (System Improvement) and is responsible for providing clinical support and leadership across designated ICSs to deliver region / system based healthcare transformation and working with system colleagues to improve quality of care, reduce unwarranted clinical variation, engage patients and staff and ensure the most effective and efficient use of resources.
The role will provide clinical leadership and strategic oversight across clinical pathways within the region, working with ICS and provider leadership teams. This role will be part of a wider clinical lead network, working alongside other Speciality Clinical Leads and improvement colleagues to support in the design and delivery of improvement activity.
We seek a consultant anaesthetist with a specific expertise in day surgery with current /recent clinical leadership in British Association of Day Surgery (BADS) to lead on our day surgery improvement programme
Main duties of the job
- Act as a conduit for dissemination of information to all colleagues as appropriate.
- Provide strong clinical leadership and support across systems.
- To put in place an agreed clinical work plan that meets the directorates or NHS objectives.
- Monitor clinical improvement performance against agreed national standards.
- To ensure links at strategic level to implement clinical change.
- Provide a healthy challenge across the Region with the common aim of improving patient care, experience and staff experience.
- Undertake clinical engagement with health professionals and relevant stakeholders to ensure wider clinical engagement.
- To support and provide leadership to STP/ICS clinical and operational leads across the region.
- Undertake where required, regular and appropriate mentoring and mentorship to ensure a strong individual performance and team relationship.
- To provide clinical leadership as part of any future re-procurement process.
- Chair meetings of clinical and operational leads as appropriate.
- Facilitate regional community of interest network.
- Work collaboratively with clinical Practitioner/s and operational managers as part of the end-to-end pathway redesign national programme.
- To share best practise and innovation, supporting in improved outcomes across the region.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will provide clinical leadership and strategic oversight across clinical pathways within the region, working with ICS and provider leadership teams.
· Engaging the clinical leadership and other stakeholders across the region.
· Providing hands on support to local health systems to harmonise practice in accordance with best practice and reduce unwarranted variation in clinical outcomes, access and productivity e.g. using experience to provide expert advice, holding workshops, and supporting and challenging colleagues.
· Supporting engagement of key stakeholders including Royal Colleges and specialist societies, BMA, and Local Medical Committees, the Southwest Clinical Senate, AHSNs.
· Lead clinical conversations on the development and implementation of new models of care to provide best practice outcomes to the region.
· Support the evaluation of the programme and assist in the formulation of a future plan
Support the National Clinical Leads if needed and Regional
· Improvement and Improvement Managers by providing clinical insight into regional and system data.
The post will have visibility within designated ICSs, highlighting best practice nationally and within the region, supporting the reduction of clinical variation across a wide variety of work streams (supported by the Regional System Improvement teams) and reporting progress against plans and outcomes to the Medical Directorate (System transformation) through the appropriate governance structures.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Education and qualification
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC and appropriate Specialist Register or NMC or HPC or other relevant professional body (without restrictions or warnings);
- Demonstrate the highest ethical and Professional standards;
- Demonstrate continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 10 years practicing as a fully qualified professional in the UK;
- Registered clinician who is currently practicing (or has practiced within the past 2 years) and who can maintain /revalidate their registration;
- Experience in senior leadership role within the NHS (preferably Medical Director/Director of Nursing or equivalent or Deputy or Clinical Director role within large organization)
- Proven experience of delivering service improvement and managing change with own or other organisation;
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Improvement methodology & Getting it Right First Time methodology;
- Methods of developing quality assurance, quality improvement and evidence based clinical and/or public health practice
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal communication skills;
- Highly developed analytical skills including the ability to analyse and evaluate
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Brown
- Job title
- Assistant Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702405504
- Additional information
Vinay Takwale, Medical Director
Mobile: 07799210448
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