Clinical Director - Medicine and Community Services in Colchester

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust are currently looking to welcome two Clinical Directors to support Medicine and Community Services for our Colchester site. This position is offered on a fixed term contract for 2 years working 4 sessions per week, but we are open to a possible job share (50:50).

The ESNEFT Medicine and Community Services Clinical Director will provide clinical leadership and expertise in the service to support the delivery of an effective and high-quality service for ESNEFT. The Clinical Director in liaison with the Divisional Director will implement and lead the directorate’s quality agenda.

Duties will include:

• Provide exceptional leadership for the delivery and development of high-quality Medicine and Community services within the Trust, the locality and the ICB.
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust including promotion of vertical and horizontal integration of acute and community focused services.
• Shape and support the development of the Divisional, ESNEFT and ICB strategy including the delivery of divisional priorities and objectives.
• Work closely with both the Divisional Director and the Divisional Management Team to develop the division’s operational clinical services and develop a culture of continuous quality improvement.
• In collaboration with clinical colleagues and service leads in primary, community and acute care pathways, ensure the highest levels of quality care (patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness) across NEE and seek to continually learn and improve.
• Help create a patient safety culture, ensure that appropriate governance arrangements are in place enabling effective management of complaints, incidents and risk management, audits and learning to improve patient care.
• Review and help implement recommendations from external and statutory and professional inspections e.g. CQC, Royal Colleges, GMC, and Health and Safety Executive.
• Provide visible leadership to the clinical teams within the Division and wider NEE health service, promote continual improvement and transformation in quality, performance and delivery of integrated services.
• Create an environment where a wide range of specialist knowledge and expertise is drawn upon to develop the skills of all medical staff within the Division and wider NEE health service.

Applications are welcome from acute and community/primary care.

To be considered for this position, you will require the following:

Essential

• Clinical Qualification to a post-graduate level.
• Experience of leading clinical services.
• Understanding of the NHS regulatory environment and ICB working.
• Understanding of national strategy and principles of improving care and outcomes.

Desirable

• Relevant Postgraduate qualification.
• Leadership qualification.
• Demonstrable and credible experience in a significant leadership role.
• Evidence of extensive (and successful) quality, people and financial experience.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training. Improving quality and access to care by making the most of the scale of our services is an important strategic goal.

It is an exciting time to be working in the ESNEFT Medicine and Community Services as we strive to provide a modern and high-quality service for the population that we serve.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.