Clinical Lead

The Clinical Lead role is a part-time position.

The purpose of the Clinical Lead role is to ensure that the LYPFT aspect of the Personality Disorder Network (PDN) services is led by a leadership pair consisting of the Head of Operations and the Clinical Lead (this post). They will be collectively responsible for ensuring the PDN services is providing the very highest standards of clinical care from within a robust and coherent clinical governance system that is fully integrated with the wider Trust clinical governance, continuous improvement and quality assurance systems.

This will require the development of excellent working relationships within the Head of Operations and beyond, and in particular:

A Leadership focus on quality improvement and close engagement with the Trust's approach to continuous improvement

Leadership of and contribution to robust clinical governance, quality assurance and quality planning

Contribution to visionary, ambitious service development in line with the Trust's ambition to provide outstanding clinical services and to move to purpose built modern facilities for inpatient care within the next 5-10 years

Adherence to all service and professional regulatory requirements including quality & equality impact assessment.

Close working across the PDN ensuring a high standard of governance.

Job description

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.net

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read theCandidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Appropriate postgraduate degree, such as a master's or doctorate, or equivalent.

Skills

Essential

• Please see job description

Knowledge

Essential

• Please see job description

Experience

Essential

• Please see job description

Values

Desirable

• Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.

Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.

Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.

About the employer

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.