Clinical Lead for Cardiac Services

at  Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

The purpose of this post is to provide advanced, specialist, clinical leadership to the countywide cardiac service, prioritising quality and safety of care provision, minimizing incidents and risk and ensuring a robust and resilient management structure is maintained.
To work alongside the operations Manager to ensure service spec, quality standards and KPI’s are achieved by the service.
Leading on transformation and projects to optimise service efficiencies and productivity, analysing data and working with the performance team and clinical effectiveness teams.
Lead on clinical governance for the service with better integration of cardiac rehabilitation and the heart failure service in alignment with the five-year plan.
Act as a resource for the professional and clinical development of CPFT staff within this specialist service and across other CPFT services.

To represent CPFT at the regional and local cardiac networks, advocating for patients managed in the community with complex cardiac conditions.

• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
• To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this.
• To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.
• To comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these.

To comply at all times with the Trust’s Information Governance related policies. Staffs are required to respect the confidentiality of information about staff, patients and Trust business and in particular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiable information in line with the Data Protection Act. All staff are responsible for ensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, and fit for the purposes for which it is intended.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
. To hold a clinical caseload, with approximately a 70:30 split of time clinical patient facing: management
Work collaboratively with the Cardiac Service Operational Manager to:
Ensure all staff appropriately manage and support individuals within our service, utilising knowledge, and advanced skills to assess, plan, implement and initiate changes where required.
Provide expert clinical advice to the team to support complex case management, clinical decisions, and staff reasoning.
. Work within the model of the Older Person’s and Adult Community Directorate, providing leadership and management on the matters relating to admission avoidance, early supported discharge, planned care and transfer of care in conjunction with other services.
. Ensure own leadership style facilitates effective communication, collaboration and motivation of staff and partners to achieve effective function of the Cardiac service model to respond to National Policies and Clinical Guidance.
Work collaboratively with neighbourhood teams, professional leads and GP practices to support professional and practice developments.
Work collaboratively with neighbourhood teams, professional leads and GP practices to support professional and practice developments.
Be proactive in developing own professional practice, demonstrating evidence of autonomy, judgement and decision-making skills.
Lead the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines
Work alongside the operational manager to represent the service in relevant forums

Ensure the provision of high quality, responsive services with the need of the patient at the centre of service delivery

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Please refer the Job description for details