Clinical Director - Pathology | The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £99,532 - £131,964 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Telford/Shrewsbury, SY3 8XQ |
| Company: | Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6223091/223-MLC2134 |
Summary
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Pathology Centre is looking for a dynamic, caring, and enthusiastic Clinical Director to lead our Pathology team.
The successful applicant will be accountable to the Divisional Medical Director for Clinical Support Services and will be responsible for ensuring the clinical components of pathways are effectively designed, consistently delivered, and continuously improved. They will ensure best practice is applied, patient harm reduced, and service improvement and innovation are promoted in their area of responsibility.
Contribution to an out of hours on call rota is core to this role.
•To provide clinical leadership for Pathology and ensure effective management and support for senior and junior clinical staff.
•To provide clinical leadership representing SATH in Pathology Networking
•To represent this workforce’s needs to the Division through operational and governance systems in support of delivering the Division and Trust’s strategic priorities.
•To be responsible for ensuring that the medical components of the pathways for which they are responsible are effectively designed, consistently delivered, and continuously improved.
•To work with the Quality Improvement & Governance team, and the Patient Safety Team, the Clinical Director has responsibility for prompting effective clinical governance through medical engagement in the specialty.
•To provide strategic oversight of workforce, and work with the Speciality to maximise opportunities to recruit and retain staff through supporting service developments and redesign in clinically and financially sustainable means.
•To develop a workforce plan that supports the replacement of agency staff with substantive staff.
•To implement job planning processes consistent with the NHS England’s Consultant contract standards, overseen by the Division and Medical Director’s office.
•To manage the specialty junior and consultant workforce’s Annual & Study leave in ways that sustain service provision. Short notice sickness will be managed within specialty if cover outside the specialty cannot be secured.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust’s catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) – all beautiful and unique.
Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes’ drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.
We also provide services such as consultant-led outreach clinics at the Wrekin Community Clinic, Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen and the Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch Community Hospitals.
This job description is an outline of the principal areas of responsibility and may be subject to periodic change. The job title is not restrictive and the job holder may at any time be required to undertake other duties within their competence beyond the confines of this job description.
The post may change over time to reflect the developing needs of the Trust and its services, as well as the personal development of the job holder. All changes will be discussed with the post holder.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024