Clinical Director of Transformation
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together?If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our ambitious and improvement orientated organisation as the Clinical Director of Transformation. You will be working as part of a cohesive medical leadership team which covers a diverse portfolio of specialist mental health services.
As a key member of the SLT, you will also have shared responsibility for performance, quality, workforce, finance and implementation of regional and national priorities. Reporting into the Chief Transformation Officer, and the Deputy Chief Executive and CMO, you will work closely, in particular, with the Deputy CNO, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Locality Directors, taking a joint lead role for clinical workforce, governance and improvement.
Main duties of the job
As an experienced medical leader and psychiatrist, you will have a passion for our work and a track record of achievement in influencing colleagues and partners to deliver high quality care. An inspirational and compassionate leader you will promote and deliver clinical workforce modernisation and improvement encouraging innovation in clinical practice as well as ensuring effective systems are in place to allow optimum use of resources through effective and flexible job planning and deployment of the medical workforce.
With a strong focus on population health, you will share our values and be an ambassador for our patients, service users and their families and carers.
For more information and a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
Working for our organisation
Improving Together for Mental Health
About us
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) provides mental health and learning disability care for people across Norfolk and Suffolk. We are committed to providing high quality care with compassion, delivering many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community.We have clinical teams providing services in inpatient, community and primary care settings. Our teams currently work in geographic care groups with dedicated local clinical leadership teams. We support a population of just over 1.6 million people and have a dedicated workforce of over 5,000 staff.
Our biggest bases are at Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich, Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds and Woodlands Unit in Ipswich but our staff are based in more than 50 locations.
Since 2023, our Trust has made and sustained a number of improvements and we are working to deliver across four priorities – improving health, improving care, improving culture and improving value. Our new Trust strategy sets out our commitment for continuous improvement to create a safer, kinder and better organisation.Together, with our service users, families, carers and our partner organisations, we are striving to make real improvements to the mental health and wellbeing of our local communities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information and a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
For a confidential discussion please contact: Dr Faisil Sethi, Chief Medical Officer ([email protected])
Interviews for this role will take place between 12th and 19th May 2025.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Clinician
- Educated to at least Masters degree level. Holds a post-graduate qualification or has equivalent relevant work experience.
- Licence to Practise/relevant professional registration
Skills
Essential criteria- An appreciation of different management approaches with the ability to support and lead stakeholders to develop and deliver the Trust’s strategy
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.