Associate Clinical Director Crisis and Specialist Teams City & Hackney in London

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Directorate Management Team and provide senior clinical and strategic leadership to our crisis and specialist teams in City & Hackney. You will have a range of managerial responsibilities within the service, from line management of consultant psychiatrists and doctors in the teams, to strategic leadership, clinical governance, and involvement in financial oversight. The Directorate Management Team is based at Brooksby House, Homerton Hospital.

Main duties of the job:

• There is 1 Associate Clinical Director post (0.2FTE) available which has been vacant for several years - it is a fixed-term 3 years appointment.
• This is a key post within the directorate. The delivery of safe, high quality, value-led and sustainable crisis and specialist mental health services are a key element of the mental health services provision in City & Hackney.
• The Crisis and Specialist teams include, but may not be limited to, Mental Health Liaison and the Crisis Pathway (HTT, CAT, Crisis Café, HBPoS), Perinatal Services, neurodevelopmental teams, and Psychological Services including SPS.
• This role requires particular liaison skills to develop good working relationships with bodies outside of ELFT which also have responsibility for the people of City and Hackney.

Qualifications:

• Essential criteria: Senior Clinician, Consultant or equivalent non-medical staff.

Personal Skills:

• Essential criteria: Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex work dynamics in, and between teams.
• Commitment to working with service users in ongoing services development.
• Cultural sensitivity, ability to work with a diverse population.
• Ability to develop and sustain relationships with external stakeholders.

Experience:

• Essential criteria: Experience of senior clinical leadership.
• Desirable criteria: Training in Leadership and Management.

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

ELFT is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!

If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews.