Clinical Director - General Medical Services, Service Improvement

at  Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

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 delivery of high quality clinical services in the Care Group, including implementation of best practice and guidance. 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 Group Medical Directors, to include job planning, workforce planning and recruitment, ensuring that annual appraisal is conducted, assessing requests for study and professional leave, administration of grievance and dignity at work policies. Support the Service manager 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 are 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 align 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

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