Clinical Vision of Flow - Clinical Lead Emergency Care
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you keen to support and drive change; do you have a Vision of flow and can motivate and inspire colleagues? If so, we are seeking a Clinical Lead to support the Clinical Vision of Flow programme.
The programme focuses on the four Pillars of Emergency Care: Assessment and Acute Care, Specialty-based Care, and Frailty. We can offer 1 PA per week for 12 months to help lead, shape, and drive our work in the Emergency Care team. This is a key strategic and clinical position within the Trust, supporting the safe and effective operation of the hospital sites, ensuring patient safety is paramount.
You will have the ability to work across traditional clinical and organisational boundaries and inspire and encourage colleagues in all parts of our complex health system.
Working across organisational and professional boundaries, you will lead to identify and quantify opportunities to support the delivery of the CVOF aims, improving access, accelerating flow, and reducing delay and wastage in processes by engendering an ethos of clinically led service improvement, local responsibility for capacity creation, and transparency and visibility of capacity and demand in real-time.
These roles will be accountable to the Clinical Vision of Flow steering group, which comprises the Deputy Medical Director (Clinical Lead for the Programme), Deputy Nurse Director, and Deputy Chief Operating Officer.
Main duties of the job
Main Responsibilities and Duties:
- Provide medical clinical leadership for the ED Workstream, working alongside colleagues.
- Inspire colleagues and work collaboratively with nursing & therapies staff, site team, operational, and other colleagues.
- Support the testing and implementation of initiatives, using Quality Improvement (Rapid Cycle Testing) methodologies.
- Help develop strategic and operational systems, processes, and policies to standardise patient flow management.
- Work alongside colleagues to support the development of processes to prioritise safe discharge while aligning the concept of flow to high-quality care delivery with better outcomes for patients.
- Work with system partners across organisational boundaries to improve knowledge and understanding of discharge pathways and improve system-wide clinical relationships to support flow.
- Provide and present monthly progress reports to the UEC and Flow Improvement Board.
- Support the Chief Operating Officer, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Deputy Chief Nurse, Deputy Medical Director, and Divisional Teams to deliver our renewed Clinical Vision of Flow.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience in Emergency Care.
- Significant experience at Consultant or SAS level.
- Proven experience of team working with the ability to unite and support teams and promote collaborative working.
- Approachable and an excellent communicator with the ability to analyse qualitative feedback and generate solutions.
- Proven ability to motivate others to support the successful delivery of the programme outcomes.
- The ability to connect with the Trust's strategic objectives, with experience of developing pragmatic and innovative solutions.
Personal Skills/Qualities
- Visibility and accessibility.
- Trustworthiness & honesty.
- Intellectual agility & flexibility.
- Resilience.
- Openness to innovation.
Values and Behaviours
- Patient Focused: Understands how their role impacts the patient journey, and a willingness to place the patient at the centre of what they do.
- Achieving Results: Experience of successfully working to deadlines and completing tasks.
- Inspirational Leadership: Keen to develop themselves and others, open to new ideas and willing to share their experience with others.
- Maximising Value: Takes ownership of problems and does not overly complicate matters or involve colleagues unnecessarily.
- Working Together: Approachable and able to build relationships with a wide variety of colleagues.
- Equality and Diversity: Can demonstrate a positive and non-judgmental attitude towards difference in terms of service delivery and working practice.
- Caring: Is able to show knowledge and understanding of promoting care, compassion, and empathy.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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