Clinical Lead

Description:

Are you passionate about clinical leadership, improving services and reducing health inequalities for patients using the forensic services. Then the Forensic services is eager to hear from you. Our vision is to provide outstanding specialist forensic mental health services across Leeds (Newsam Centre) and in York(Clifton House), as an employer of choice.

We are looking for a talented individual to clinically lead our Forensic services and join our established Leadership Team. This role will be pivotal to leading, enhancing and developing high quality, safe, effective, reliable, person-centred care across our services through a psychologically safe, inclusive, co-produced and collective leadership culture.

We aspire to outstanding clinical services that afford the very best experience of compassionate care to service users and their carers. We understand that to achieve this our staff need clinical leadership that creates a supportive and professionally rewarding environment in which to learn, develop and provide this high standard of care. This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate clinical leader to lead the clinical service to the next level of high quality care provision.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the Head of Operations, Head of Clinical Governance and our Clinical Director, you will be key in leading, delivering and supporting a journey of improvement across the whole of our Forensic Service. You will be responsible for ensuring robust governance and assurance systems and processes are embedded throughout the service and for promoting the principle that good governance is everybody’s business and is essential for the delivery of high-quality care. You will strengthen and develop the evidence based, clinical pathways that the service provides, ensuring that there is a clear focus on co-production, service user and carer involvement and staff engagement and that this is at the heart of the service and its strategic development.