Band 8a Swindon Clinical Lead - Sandalwood Court, Swindon

at  Avon Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Responsibility for Safe Services In conjunction with the Operational Lead, the Clinical Lead is responsible for ensuring that there are effective governance and assurance mechanisms for identifying and appropriately managing clinical and other risks. The Clinical Lead will promote a culture of incident reporting and ensure that there are robust systems in place for reporting, recording and learning from incidents. The Clinical Lead will ensure that there are robust local systems in place for meeting the Trust requirements for patient safety and overseeing and managing the Patient safety incident response framework within the Locality. The Clinical Lead will ensure jointly with the Trust Head of Health and Safety that there are robust health and safety and infection control processes in place in the service.
To ensure that safeguarding processes in place to protect service users, children and the wider public. To ensure that there are robust processes in place locally to ensure the management of medicines. To ensure practice is compliant with the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act legislation. To ensure practice is compliant with policy to ensure quality and safe services.
To ensure that any governance risks are identified and escalated to the appropriate risk registers

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