Medical Director

Are you a skilled, practiced consultant with a relentless drive, eager to propel your career to new heights?, We are looking to appoint a Medical Director to provide highly visible and inspiring clinical leadership for clinical staff throughout our business. You will champion a professional, open culture that empowers your team to consistently deliver high quality care with compassion.

In this role, you will act as a role model for the behaviours and high professional standards expected with the outcome of delivering compassionate, safe, effective and individualised care to every service user.

You'll demonstrate notable leadership whilst working as part of a cohesive, multi-professional hospital management team, delivering exceptional quality care that meets regulatory and quality standards and contributing to the overall strategic direction, development and leadership of the business.
Key Duties and Responsbilities:
The post holder will:

• In collaboration with other clinical colleagues and managers, help to develop a comprehensive treatment service that seeks to deliver a high quality response to those suffering from a range of mental health problems based on quality assured evidence based practice.


• In collaboration with his/her Consultant colleagues, be responsible for providing advice with regard to the psychiatric care of clients within their respective service area. This will entail taking overall responsibility for a defined caseload of patients.


• Work in close collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and will foster positive working relationships with - Hospital Director and Clinical Services Manager; and external stakeholders.


• With the Clinical Director, Hospital Director and Head of Therapies take an active role in quality assurance including the development of systems and processes that support the maintenance of outstanding levels of clinical performance including patient safety, audit, professional practice and effective governance via the Clinical Governance and Clinical Improvements forums.


• In conjunction with Consultant colleagues provide professional supervision to the other medical staff where appropriate. They will ensure that junior medical staff time and duties are managed in a manner which best suits the needs of the service and their ongoing training.


• Participate in an out of hours rota with other Consultant psychiatric colleagues in Baldock Manor. At present this is on a 1:3 basis.



• Participate in quality enhancement and service evaluation projects and will be encouraged to undertake any research which may be relevant to either short or long-term service improvement.



• Participate in educational and health promotion activities within the Mental Health Service and to be pro-active in liaising on a regular basis with General Practitioners.



• Lead the CPD programme for the hospital and foster a culture of learning.


• Provide professional advice to the Senior Management team and Board on key service planning issues and psychiatric staffing issues, ensuring that the Senior Management Team and Board of Directors keep quality of care at the core of decision making.


• Be a role model for effective leadership in the business driving a positive, 'can-do' culture and actively promote collaboration, enablement, innovation and positive outcomes.


• Oversee the performance of the Consultant Psychiatrists ensuring that systems are in place to support appraisal and revalidation. Identify, investigate and escalate concerns about psychiatrists' conduct or performance.


• Maintain effective, professional leadership for all Consultant Psychiatrists providing clinical supervision and mentorship.
  
  Approved Clinician status


• CCT/CESR registrant


• A member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) and in good CPD standing with same


• Current registration with GMC


Experience Required:

• At least five years' experience in in-patient setting


• Ability to take independent Clinical decisions and demonstrate clinical leadership.


Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Knowledge of evidence based practice


• In depth knowledge of MHA and MCA


• Effective communication skills - verbal and written.


• Up to date with current practices in in-patient Psychiatry


• Able to organise oneself and prioritise clinical need


• Evidence of participation in audit
  
  BaldockManor is a 40-bed hospital in north Hertfordshire that provides specialistpsychiatric services for adults. The hospital has two female PICU (PsychiatricIntensive Care) wards and two acute wards.


Our PICUservices provide care and support for women at crisis level with a severemental disorder who require rapid assessment and stabilisation.

Our acutewards care for older adults, usually 55 years or older, who need a short-termhospital stay, where we can stabilise their mental health. The average stay inour acute wards is less than forty days.

Our service objectives:

To offer afirst-rate, safe and personalised service that promotes our patients' choice,dignity, and quality of life and delivers a cost-effective service for our NHSpartners.

Our model of care:

Our caremodel places our patients' needs and personal circumstances at the heart ofeverything we do. We are committed to providing quality, meaningful carefocused on recovery and aim to support each person admitted to our services ina personalised, collaborative way.