Divisional Cinical Director

at  Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

JOB OVERVIEW

The Division of Integrated Care includes UTC, SDEC, general and acute medical wards, intermediate tier services including intermediate care units, home support services, urgent community response, virtual ward and a wide range of adult and children’s community services including Community Paediatricians. The Division employs approximately 1000 colleagues and has an annual budget of approximately £40million.
The Divisional Clinical Director is a key part of the Divisional Triumvirate Management Team alongside Divisional Director of Nursing and Divisional Managing Director.

WORKING FOR OUR ORGANISATION

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The Divisional Clinical Director is responsible for delivering high quality, safe, reliable, and sustainable services, the Clinical Director is also professionally and managerially responsible for medical staff across the Division, including; urgent & emergency care, acute medicine, intermediate care and adult and children’s community services. The Clinical Director, in conjunction with the Divisional Director of Nursing and Divisional Managing Director, are responsible for;

• Assuring effective and reliable care through high standards of clinical practice and governance.
• Delivering quality and service improvement and eliminate avoidable harm.
• Delivering high operational performance.
• Ensuring effective financial management practice through improved efficiency and profitability and contribute to the Productivity and Value-based Efficiency (PAVE) programme.
• In collaboration with the Directorate and Divisional Management Team, lead on the strategic development of the service.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/