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 an applying or to find out more about the role please contact:
Head of Operations, Hannah Ray -
Divisional Director of Nursing, Kate Chisholm-Mitchell -
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 be 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.
About us
Responsibility for Safe ServicesIn conjunction with the Operational Lead, the Clinical Lead is responsible for ensuring that there are effective governance and assurance mechanisms for identifying and appropriately managing clinical and other risks.The Clinical Lead will promote a culture of incident reporting and ensure that there are robust systems in place for reporting, recording and learning from incidents.The Clinical Lead will ensure that there are robust local systems in place for overseeing and managing patient safety incident response framework within the Locality.The Clinical Lead will ensure jointly with the Trust Head of Health and Safety that there are robust health and safety and infection control processes in place in the service.To ensure that safeguarding processes are in place to protect service users, children and the wider public.To ensure that there are robust processes in place locally to ensure the management of medicines.To ensure practice is compliant with the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act legislation.To ensure that any governance risks are identified and escalated to the appropriate risk registers.Responsibility for Effective ServicesTo resolve clinical issues which require expert clinical decision making such as working with multi-disciplinary teams to support care of service users with complex presentations.Ensure that services deliver against best practice, national, Trust and local guidelines, including NICE guidance, technical assessments etc., to ensure clinical excellence.Ensure that services deliver against national, Trust and locally determined quality benchmarks, in the context of an extremely competitive tendering environment.To strategically lead on the Trust IQ (information for quality) system and to ensure that the Locality inputs and exports data that informs the locality, the Trust Board and external commissioners.The Clinical Lead will be responsible for the local delivery of all actions arising from regulatory inspections such as CQC. The Clinical Lead will exercise effective and clear leadership, inspiring and supporting others to deliver quality services across the locality.
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