Job summary
- Main area
- NMC/HCPC
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-SEC025-0325
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackberry Hill Hospital
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8c Locality Clinical Lead - Bristol
Band 8c
Job overview
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 – [email protected]
Divisional Director of Nursing, Kate Chisholm-Mitchell – [email protected]
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 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.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsibility for Safe Services
In 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 Services
To 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.
Please see attached JD for full duties
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Qualified Clinician, maintain professional registration
- Educated to Masters degree or equivalent experience/competence
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Quality Improvement methodology
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Detailed working knowledge of the NHS and Local Government policies relating to Mental Health together with the good knowledge of principal policy and financial determinants
- Good working knowledge and understanding of Government policy and strategic direction in relation to healthcare, social care, criminal justice provision and wider national social policy
- Substantial experience of senior public sector management/leadership (NHS and/or Local Government) demonstrating effective track record of managing/leading across multiple and/or complex services
- Experience of delivering substantial service change and updating Trust Boards, Joint Commissioning Board and Scrutiny Committee on progress and delivering to agreed objectives
Desirable criteria
- Good working knowledge of other Healthcare and public service sectors, especially those relating to learning disability, criminal justice and children’s services including SEND
- Experience of using co-production in delivering service improvement and change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hannah Ray
- Job title
- Operations Manager - Secure Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Divisional Director of Nursing, Kate Chisholm-Mitchell – [email protected]
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