Band 8c Clinical Lead - Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust's primary purpose is to provide the highest quality mental healthcare that promotes recovery and hope.

Reporting to the Operational Manager, the Clinical Lead is responsible for all aspects of clinical delivery, quality, standards, regulation and compliance within their delivery unit.

The Clinical Lead is responsible for the delivery of the Trust's governance requirements within the service; establishing clear and effective mechanisms to ensure ownership of governance in all areas and at all levels.

The Clinical Lead will ensure that there are comprehensive and robust systems in place for gathering, monitoring, interpreting and disseminating information related to quality, ensuring that any subsequent learning is shared with relevant staff and embedded in practice.

Working as part of the management team, the Clinical Lead will ensure that:

• Practice is in line with professional and Trust standards and national guidance for best practice in treatment and care.
• A culture and ethos of quality is embedded in all aspects of service design, implementation, delivery and review.
• Clinical staff within the Delivery unit participate in planned and appropriate supervision, appraisal, training and professional development activities.
• Workforce plans ensure that practitioners are equipped with the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes.

The post holder will be responsible for assuring that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcome areas have been met in all registered activities in all sites for which the post holder is responsible for assuring that all CAMHS services provide high quality and safe care to service users and families.

This involves implementing systems and processes which investigate each registered activity in each site against each outcome area and compile evidence to prove to the Board of Directors that the outcome has been achieved.

Where outcomes are not met the post holder is expected to put in place action to improve. The post holder will proactively seek and engage the support of the governance team in the Clinical Executive to gather information as required.

The post holder will build an understanding of and adhere to the CQC guidelines as well as the Trust's guidelines on the approach to maintaining CQC registration.

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.

At AWP we are embarking on a clinical leadership review and therefore the reporting arrangements for this post may be subject to future change.

The post holder will be responsible for assuring that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcome areas have been met in all registered activities in all sites for which the post holder is responsible. This involves implementing systems and processes which investigate each registered activity in each site against each outcome area and compile evidence to prove to the Board of Directors that the outcome has been achieved.

Where outcomes are not met the post holder is expected to put in place action to improve. The post holder will proactively seek and engage the support of the governance team in the Clinical Executive to gather information as required. The post holder will build an understanding of and adhere to the CQC guidelines as well as the Trusts guidelines on the approach to maintaining CQC registration.

Key Result Areas:

Responsibility for Safe Services

In conjunction with the Operational Lead, the Clinical Lead is responsible for ensuring that there are…