Clinical Director Frailty Services

We expect everyone that works for the Health Board, regardless of their role, to share and uphold our values in all that they do:

• Caring for each other - in every human contact in all of our communities and each of our hospitals.
• Working together- as patients, families, carers, staff and communities so that we always put patients first
• Always improving - so that we are at our best for every patient and for each other.

Job overview

The Clinical Director for Frailty provides senior clinical leadership and strategic direction for frailty services across the organisation. Working closely with operational and multidisciplinary colleagues, the postholder will lead service development, quality improvement, and workforce planning to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care for older people living with frailty. The role has responsibility for clinical governance, pathway redesign, and supporting integration across acute, community and interface services. The postholder will contribute to education, innovation and transformation aligned to national and regional priorities.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of Frailty including implementation of best practice and guidance.

The post holder will ensure that the principles of prudent healthcare are at the forefront of service planning and delivery.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical leadership and management of the clinicians ensuring that the service remains resilient in terms of clinical cover.

The effective clinical leadership of workforce planning and recruitment, ensuring that annual appraisals are conducted as appropriate is the responsibility of the post holder.

Ensuring that the service is well managed, developed, and directed to provide care that is safe, compassionate, consistently of excellent quality and always improving.

Support the delivery of innovation, service redesign and improvement to support the vision and strategy of the 6 Goals Programme.

Working for our organisation

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached JD and PS for further information

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered with the GMC &Licensed to practice

Desirable criteria

• MRCGP or equivilant
• Formal Management Qualification
• Knowledge of Adastra

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable evidence of sound financial/staff management.
• Proven record of leading complex, multi-faceted change aimed at raising performance across healthcare systems.
• Experience of ensuring that systems for clinical governance are in place and evidence of monitoring their continued effectiveness.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrable experience in effective peer group leadership.

Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable