Clinical Director of Transformation

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our ambitious and improvement orientated organisation as the Clinical Director of Transformation. You will be working as part of a cohesive medical leadership team which covers a diverse portfolio of specialist mental health services. As a key member of the SLT, you will also have shared responsibility for performance, quality, workforce, finance and implementation of regional and national priorities. Reporting into the Chief Transformation Officer, and the Deputy Chief Executive and CMO, you will work closely, in particular, with the Deputy CNO, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Locality Directors, taking a joint lead role for clinical workforce, governance and improvement.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced medical leader and psychiatrist, you will have a passion for our work and a track record of achievement in influencing colleagues and partners to deliver high quality care. An inspirational and compassionate leader you will promote and deliver clinical workforce modernisation and improvement encouraging innovation in clinical practice as well as ensuring effective systems are in place to allow optimum use of resources through effective and flexible job planning and deployment of the medical workforce. With a strong focus on population health, you will share our values and be an ambassador for our patients, service users and their families and carers.

About us

Improving Together for Mental Health. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) provides mental health and learning disability care for people across Norfolk and Suffolk. We are committed to providing high quality care with compassion, delivering many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community. We have clinical teams providing services in inpatient, community and primary care settings. Our teams currently work in geographic care groups with dedicated local clinical leadership teams. We support a population of just over 1.6 million people and have a dedicated workforce of over 5,000 staff. Our biggest bases are at Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich, Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds and Woodlands Unit in Ipswich but our staff are based in more than 50 locations. Since 2023, our Trust has made and sustained a number of improvements and we are working to deliver across four priorities - improving health, improving care, improving culture and improving value. Our new Trust strategy sets out our commitment for continuous improvement to create a safer, kinder and better organisation. Together, with our service users, families, carers and our partner organisations, we are striving to make real improvements to the mental health and wellbeing of our local communities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all.

Job responsibilities

For more information and a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Clinician
• Educated to at least Masters degree level. Holds a post-graduate qualification or has equivalent relevant work experience.
• Licence to Practise/relevant professional registration

Skills

Essential

• An appreciation of different management approaches with the ability to support and lead stakeholders to develop and deliver the Trust's strategy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address

County Hall

Martineau Lane

NORWICH

NR1 2DL

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