Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Clinical Director is responsible for:

• Developing positive working relationships with the Directorate Manager and Lead Clinicians for the Care Group 
•  The safe, effective and efficient development of delivery of high quality services which promote the Lifestyle Medicine principles with the goal of empowering patients to actively self-manage their health and well-being.   The services offer identification of risk factors through health check programs and also offer an opportunity to reduce symptoms and prevent deconditioning during wait times for specialist consultations. 
• Support the Directorate Manager for GMS and the Service Manager for Vaccination and Immunisation in the safe, effective development of the vaccination and immunisation programme which is directed by the National Immunisation Framework. 
•  Ensuring that the principles of prudent healthcare are at the forefront of service planning and delivery.
• Effective and visible clinical leadership, with day to day clinical support of the specialties within the portfolio, engaging with clinical leads and associate clinical service directors within and outside the care group, to include job planning (where appropriate).  
• Support the Directorate Managers for Community Services and the wider Primary Care Team to ensure the systems are in place to produce the necessary statistics for reporting purposes.
• Promoting and supporting the Quality Governance agenda including robust incident reporting, concerns management, identification of clinical risks and resource constraints that relate to this.
• Ensuring services developed and directed to provide care that is safe, compassionate, consistently of excellent quality and always improving; in line with our Values and Behaviour and Quality Strategy.  
• The professional leadership of all clinical staff within the clinical specialty within the Care Group, the creation of an excellent educational and research environment, the development of new service models to meet changes in demand, and to comply with best practice and national guidelines.
• Contributing to the delivery of required quality and performance standards by using information to support planning, performance and decision making.
• To ensure that satisfactory multi-disciplinary clinical audit takes place and that the outcomes are acted upon and reported into the required forums
• The development of effective working relationships with other relevant specialties in the Care Group and other sites in the interests of patient centred care.
• Providing advice and input to the development of strategic and operational plans for the Care Group including the Integrated Medium Term Plan.