Band 8c Locality Clinical Lead - Bristol

Clinical Lead for AWP’s Secure Service

We are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual who is passionate about forensic mental health. You will need to be an experienced clinical leader who can hold a credible, visible clinical lead role within the Secure services across the region. AWP’s Secure Services are part of the South West Provider Collaborative. We provide low and medium inpatient services based in Bristol, coupled with community forensic services across the area.

When you join AWP, you join an organisation that celebrates diversity, where your wellbeing is prioritised and where you will be supported on your career path to fulfil your potential.

If you are interested in applying or to find out more about the role please contact:

Head of Operations, Hannah Ray – hannah.ray@nhs.net

Divisional Director of Nursing, Kate Chisholm-Mitchell – kate.chisholm-mitchell@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

You will need to be approachable, empathetic, passionate about high quality care and able to lead with compassion.

You must uphold and role model high standards of care delivery and clinical practice along with maintaining high professional and clinical standards. You will be able to work with all disciplines in the locality as well as be confident working closely with our partners in forensic health, social care and other partners. This role is pivotal to delivering safe and effective services that make a real difference. You will work closely to ensure we always keep the voices of our patients and their families/carers at the heart of what we do.

You must be highly conversant and confident with patient safety, quality, governance and improvement processes and methodology, and how these are applied within health systems, whilst being skilled at leading others in embedding learning and improvements in care.

Working collaboratively and openly, this is a very exciting time to join AWP’s Secure Services during a large programme of transformation.