NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

The post holder will provide leadership to facilitate the smooth operation, delivery and high quality of all medical services within their designated area of responsibility. The post holder will take line management responsibility for operational and professional issues for doctors within the service area. The post holder will work collaboratively with Clinical Directors and the Service Managers to ensure service delivery is in line with Trust Strategy and performance objectives. The post holder will be a key member of the Service Stream Management Group and will contribute towards business planning, strategy attainment, service redesign and performance achievement.Main duties of the job To provide strong medical leadership - this complements and supports the work of Service Manager, · Managing Director and the Clinical Director. · To strive to achieve the delivery of targets to improve performance with the service area. · To support the Clinical Director in the strategic work of the service area. To support the Clinical Director, Managing Director and Service Line Leaders, ensuring that proper procedures are in place for assessment, care and treatment of patients. · To support Clinical Director, Managing Director and Service Line Leaders in ensuring the achievement of all quality standards and protocols and monitoring their application. Such protocols include referral pathways, confidentiality, safeguarding, maintenance of supervision and dealing with complaints etc., · To support the Managing Director and the Clinical Director on the development of service redesign as required · To ensure that medical budgets are appropriately managed. · To work with Acute, Specialist, Forensic and Rehab, Social Care and Academic partners to ensure delivery plans support the wider health and social care agenda, including improvements into equality and access · To challenge existing practices and support the Managing Director, the Clinical Director and Service Manager in providing progressive solutions which take into account evidence-based practice and incorporate it into service delivery and service redesign plans. · To support services to deliver service redesign projects which will deliver improved outcomes for service users and most efficient use of resources.

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full registration with the GMC and license to practice
Desirable criteria
• Project Management experience
• Training as an investigator, Sufficient experience as a consultant psychiatrist.
• Managing time and ensuring deadlines are met.
Desirable criteria
• Experience of budgetary control/management
• Proven track level of achieving healthcare targets
• Experience of participating in or leading programmes of change within the public sector, Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
• Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets.
• Negotiating skills and ability to manage conflict.
Desirable criteria
• Ability to build successful teams.
• Ability to present complex data.
• Ability to promote and market services.
• Proven negotiating skills., Ability to see strategic picture and understand the importance of service alignment to Trust vision and values.
• Problem solving skills Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations
• Business focused
• Sensitive to clinical and political demands
Desirable criteria
• Critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets.
• Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change.
Planning and Organisational SkillsEssential criteria
• Good organisational skill
Desirable criteria
• Record of pro-active performance management., IT skills to manage and report on complex performance information systems., Excellent personal integrity, personal effectiveness and self-awareness
• Maintains personal training and development, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  HPFT supports people with mental ill health, learning disabilities and autism across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and Essex. We employ around 4,500 people who deliver these services within the community and in inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services. We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007.