DCMO / Director of Safety & Clinical Effectiveness

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Strategy / General

• Support the Chief Medical Officer in providing advice to the Trust on current medical views, new developments in clinical practice and related resource needs to ensure that decisions and service developments are appropriately informed by best practice.
• Establish systems and processes that support the maintenance of outstanding levels of clinical performance, including medical staff appraisal and job planning.
• Working with the Director of Medical Education and the Director of Medical Workforce, support the modernisation of medical careers to ensure the development of services and that clinical roles reflect evolving best practice, supports the provision of cost-effective (and regulatory compliant) services and supports staff recruitment and retention strategi
• Working with the Director of Medical Education and the Director of Medical Workforce on strategic planning for medical workforce to include recruitment, reduced reliance on temporary staff and planning for current and future needs to maintain safe staffing levels and comply with the national Workforce Safeguards requirements.
• Lead and motivate the senior medical staff to ensure that their professional attitudes and behaviours are in line with the strategic business direction and values of the Trust.
• Working with the Trust’s Director of Research and Development providing leadership of the Trust’s research and development strategy and with the Director of Medical Education providing leadership in medical education.
• Communicate with medical staff to encourage their engagement with initiatives and changes to patterns and costs of service delivery.
• Support the preparation of clinical service business plans, budgets and contract arrangements to ensure that each service has the medical staff and non-staffing resources to deliver the clinical services committed within business plan

Quality

• Promote a culture of high quality and facilitate the delivery of the Trust’s policies and procedures.
• Work with colleagues to deliver a Quality Improvement Strategy that:
• outlines the Trust’s national, regional, sector and local Quality Improvement priorities
• integrates with the Trust’s overall service improvement plans
• outlines the Trust’s commitment to enabling staff to take part in Quality Improvement projects by providing mentors, registration, training and other support.

Patient Safety and effectiveness

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) policy and practice.
• Promote a culture of patient safety and facilitate the delivery of agreed safety goals.
• Develop a patient safety programme that supports the commitments of our Quality Account priorities and supports the additional local Quality Standards.
• With colleagues, help to drive the culture of patient safety and ensure the visibility of the programme within the Trust.
• Help to develop a culture to enable staff members to openly share safety information and to ensure that this information is taken forward appropriately.
• Refer concerns to the Chief Medical Officer and, if required, involve the appropriate responsible officer (e.g. Chief Nursing Officer, Head of Integrated Risk Management).
• Oversee existing processes to ensure the Trust is compliant with external safety alerts.
• Continually seek to improve the safety, quality, effectiveness and efficiency of services to support the provision of excellent patient care.
• Actively apply the Trust's policy and national guidance on 'Learning from deaths in the NHS.
• Ensure that NICE guidance and NICE TA is embedded in the organisation
• Ensure that the development of electronic systems promotes patient safety and effectiveness.
• Engage with all relevant stakeholders for matters pertaining to safety and effectiveness

Leadership

• Provide senior leadership within the Trust
• Work with divisional team of Divisional medical directors, managers and nurses to optimise patient care and support Trust strategies
• Alongside the Chief Medical Officer, assist with the development of clinical leaders within the Trust.
• Deputise for the Chief Medical Officer as required.

Other duties

Refer concerns about quality of patient care to the Responsible Officer (Chief Medical Officer) for further investigation.

• Support the Responsible Officer in ensuring that appropriate timely action is taken, in accordance with Trust procedures, when a concern is raised about quality or patient care.
• Serious incident investigations as required
• Chair/attendance at local Medical Negotiating Committee as required
• Case investigation or case management for maintaining higher professional standards as required.
• Chair Mortality review Group
• Chair Safety Learning & Improvement Committee (SLIC)
• Chair the Patient Safety and Effectiveness Committee
• Attend and be an active member of the Clinical Governance Committee

Corporate

• Proactively support the Chief Medical Officer to develop strategy, deliver agreed initiatives and implement agreed plans.
• Attend Trust Board sub-committee meetings as required.
• Represent the Chief Officer at Trust Executive / Chief Officer meetings as appropriate.
• Provide clear leadership to Trust staff, ensuring that performance is appropriately managed, and that all staff have personal development plans, in order to ensure an efficient, effective and engaged workfo
• Represent, and act as an ambassador for the Trust at regional and national networking and other events as appropriate.
• Act as a role model at all times, demonstrating and promoting the Trust’s values and expected behaviours
• Ensure sound and prudent financial and resource management
• Undertake ad-hoc projects as required.