Job title: Clinical Manager

Location: Ealing, W5

Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 depending on experience

Hours: 40 hours per week

Duties as a Clinical Manager:

You will provide direction and contemporary initiatives to drive and embed effective clinical practice and leadership for care delivery. The successful applicant would ensure delivery of an optimum level of clinical and therapeutic care together with ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, quality standards and delivering against key performance indicators. As a member of the Senior Management, the successful applicant will play a key part in ensuring departments operate within budget, delivering the hospital strategy, providing operational and clinical leadership to the wider staff group in support of the Hospital Manager

You will take overall responsibility for the management and functioning of HSE, infection control and Fire Regulation guidelines and according to set budgets.

Responsibilities as a Clinical Manager:

Clinical

• Ensure that a safe environment is maintained at all times in accordance with Health and Safety regulations
• Responsible for achieving and maintaining the highest standard of nursing care
• In conjunction with other Heads of Department, ensure that therapies provided are meaningful to the service user group, supports recovery and meet current NICE guidelines
• Benchmark services against national standards.
• Ensure corporate guidance, standards and policies are adhered to by all staff
• Take a lead on the management of SUI from ward to Board.
• Monitor Pharmacy, Pathology, Occupational Health and Advocacy services to ensure adequate standards are met in accordance with the Service Level Agreements, reporting compliance to the Hospital Manager
• Monitor patient notes and ensure that multi disciplinary records are maintained according to policy and procedure.
• Responsibility for informing Care Quality Commission, MHAC, Ministry of Justice, RIDDOR etc as appropriate in the event of an adverse event on one of the wards
• To ensure that NHSE targets are delivered on target and reported as required each quarter.
• To support with in the completion of Care Quality Commission self-assessment and statutory announced and unannounced visits
• To participate in the Corporate Groups ensuring best practice are shared, assist in practice and policy development across the company and participate in corporate developments in nursing practice

Administration

• Oversee the clinical budgets for all wards ensuring that they are adhered to.
• Oversee the administration of the Mental Health Act on all wards
• Attend and contribute to the monthly management meetings
• Attend and contribute to marketing meetings
• Involvement in handling service enquiries and active participation in assessment of patients as required
• Provide necessary data to the Group Financial Manager to ensure the accurate completion of pay roll on a monthly basis
• Ensure that all staff comply with the Working Time Directive
• Ensure all administrative paperwork generated by the clinical team is accurate and timely
• The post-holder will take overall responsibility for the management and functioning of housekeeping, hospitality, HSE, infection control and Fire Regulation guidelines and according to set budgets.
• To ensure that all training, supervision and appraisals are completed within appropriate timescales, for all departments of responsibility
• . Investigate performance, conduct and grievances as requested according to company policy and in conjunction with legal advice where necessary.
• Hear disciplinary or grievance hearings as requested and in accordance with company policy
• Manage annual leave and sick leave effectively within allocated departments.
• Ensure all the post-holder's department heads are up to date with developments within the company locally and nationally so that best practice relating to their department is established.
• To act-up for the Hospital Manager as requested.

Operational

• Together with the corporate Health and Safety Manager, ensure the hospital is
• compliant with H&S regulations and all risk assessments and safe systems of work
• are in place and adhered to across the hospital i.e. slips trips and falls.
• On behalf of the Hospital Manager, produce weekly summary reports and
• monthly KPI reports on the current performance of the hospital.
• Ensure that the hospital is kept in a good state of repair, conducting regular audits and inspections and a planned maintenance programme is in place.
• Ensure fire policy is up to date and adhered to by all staff and that regular tests and checks are carried out and documented in accordance to compliance regulations. Ensure fire risk assessments are carried out at least annually and action plans are in place including keeping fire marshals up to date with training and in regular practice.

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