Clinical Director for Gynaecology

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Performance Management
The Clinical Director is responsible and accountable to the Divisional Director for managing the clinical, operational and financial performance of the Clinical Directorate. The Clinical Director will be responsible for delivering excellent performance against key quality standards
and targets and for taking corrective action when required. The key performance areas include:

• Managing the workforce within the Clinical Directorate, including responsibility for all senior and junior doctors to ensure the operational effectiveness of clinical services.
• Service delivery and quality standards set out in National Guidance and local contracts.
• Capacity management, including delivery against target length of stay and patient throughput and effective utilisation of facilities.
• Delivery of contract activities and patient access standards; including waiting times, 4 hour Emergency Department wait and Cancer standards.
• Financial performance targets delivering the required income and expenditure plan, identifying and delivering the Directorate's cost improvement plan and deliver the EBITDA target.
• Ensuring governance is embedded within the Directorate and all staff understand their responsibility for service quality and patient safety and that mechanisms are in place to monitor patient safety and measure clinical outcomes.
• Ensuring the facilities (beds, theatres, outpatients and diagnostic assets) are used flexibly to enable contract activity to be delivered within the resource plan.
• Manage the Directorate to meet the CQC domains of Safety, Caring, Responsiveness, Effectiveness and Well Led.
  
  Workforce
  - Efficiently deploy staff to ensure legal, cost-effective use of resources to deliver high quality services.
  - Play a leading role in the integration of NHS, academic and research activities and support the Trust and other partners in their mission to operate under the principles of an Academic Health Science Centre.
  - Ensure appropriate high-quality training for all staff and safeguard the working environment of staff in training.
  - Ensure that the skills and talents of staff are utilised within the Clinical Directorate towards the delivery of the best possible clinical service.
  - Operate robust systems for annual appraisals for all staff within the Clinical Directorate and ensure individual appraisals and objectives align to the clinical, performance and business requirements of the Directorate.
  - Encourage team working, including action to deal with colleagues in difficulty and trouble.
  - Manage the job planning process and ensure all job plans are reviewed annually and reflect the needs of the service.
  - Promote and embed the Trust values and ensure all staff within the Directorate act in accordance with the values.
  - Communicate and align the Trust vision and strategic objectives to all staff within the Directorate and ensure that team and individual objectives are aligned to the broader Division and Trust wide objectives.
  - Create opportunities to enhance staff engagement and empowerment in the operational running of the Directorate and their full involvement in determining the annual and strategic plans for the Directorate.
  -Ensure appropriate ‘induction programmes’ and exit interview processes are established and utilised.
  - Ensure that effective communication processes are in place, so all staff are fully aware and engaged in the main issues facing the Clinical Directorate.
  - Manage the performance, competence and conduct of staff within the Clinical Directorate.
  

Clinical Governance
The Clinical Director will be responsible for managing Clinical Governance within the Clinical Directorate in conjunction with the Matron, medical governance leads and will in particular:
• Co-ordinate audit within the Clinical Directorate, in conjunction with the designated audit lead and audit department and review an annual audit report for the Clinical Directorate
• Implement clinical effectiveness programmes throughout the Clinical Directorate and in collaboration with colleagues outside of the directorate to ensure effective clinical services.
• Implement effective risk management processes within the Clinical Directorate.
• Promote a learning culture within the Clinical Directorate, in particular ensuring that all staff are adequately developed and trained. To make sure all Consultant staff have the relevant CPD and CME requirements.
• Ensure services are provided in line with Improving Outcomes Guidance.

In delivering these responsibilities the Clinical Director will be supported by the Divisional Clinical Governance team, Directorate Medical Governance Lead and Clinical Leads.

Business Planning and Service Development
The Clinical Director will:
• Work with the OSM and Matron to prepare the annual business plan for the Clinical Directorate, in conjunction with the Divisional Director and Divisional Director of Operations.
• Ensure an inclusive, patient-focused approach to service development.
• Identify opportunities for service improvement and optimisation of the utilisation of facilities within the Directorate.
• Work collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical colleagues across the Trust to ensure effective and efficient delivery of services.
• Develop proposals for working collaboratively with General Practitioners and service users to facilitate service improvement and flexibility.
• Ensure any proposed developments and/or service changes are considered in the context of the NHS Operating Framework and are discussed and agreed with the Divisional Director and Divisional Director of Operations and Divisional Director of Nursing to ensure the proposal does not have a negative clinical , operational or financial impact on the Clinical Directorate, the Division, other Clinical Directorates or the Trust.
• Encourage cross speciality working to achieve the most effective and inclusive approach to the achievement of the Trust’s aims and objectives.
• Ensure the Clinical Directorate complies with the Trust’s Governance standards, and legal and statutory requirements, including Working Time regulations, Health & Safety, Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions.
• Promote a positive profile of the Trust’s services both internally and externally.
• Contribute towards the development of the Divisional Clinical Strategy.
• Actively lead service improvement programmes within the Clinical Directorate.