Stockton Hall Hospital is a 112 bedded Forensic medium secure psychiatric hospital, which cares for both mental illness and learning disability patients, which includes an Autistic Spectrum Disorder service and a female service.

The values of Stockton Hall Hospital are what we believe in and what you can count on:

• Highest level of Quality
• Caring Safely
• Integrity
• Working together
• Valuing people

Stockton Hall Hospital has a reputation for providing high standards of care and treatment to all patients.

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, experienced and skilled Associate Director of Clinical Services to work with the Director of Clinical Services to ensuring quality indicators, care standards and regulatory requirements are fully satisfied.

The role will have overall responsibility for setting forward looking performance and quality standards, and reviewing existing processes through a suite of Indicators to track and monitor site progress. This as well as, proactively and continually leading and embedding quality throughout the service and service lines.

If you join our team, we can offer you

• Competitive salary
• Many benefits in line with the NHS
• 25 days' annual leave plus 8 bank holidays increasing to 30 days plus bank holidays with length of service
• Extra Service Annual leave awards
• Career development - progress across the Staff Nurse grading is via a distinct career path
• An employee assistance programme
• Free meals/refreshments when on duty
• Free car parking
• Flexible Benefits Packages
• Relocation support (including payment for accommodation or moving costs), paid as a lump sum - Moving less than 100 miles up to £1,500 - If more than 100 miles up to £3,000 (To be repaid if individual does not complete probation & leaves)
• Payment into the pension scheme
• CPD top up
• Donation to a charity of their choice

The role includes

• developing and delivering the Hospital Quality strategy, providing clinical leadership to the team.
• Alongside the HD & DoCs support site and in preparing for announced regulatory inspections, and Contractual requirements.
• Ensures delivery of the highest level of clinical and therapeutic care together with ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and current legislation, meeting quality standards and delivering against quality performance indicators.
• Leadership of the site Quality plans.
• Provides leadership, organisation and co-ordination to ensure effective clinical governance.
• Facilitating and supporting the implementation and maintenance of the overall site Governance. Working with wards, departments to facilitate the delivery of the Governance agenda and embed learning, evidence based practice and improvement in patient care.
• Providing advice on quality governance issues to all staff at site, promoting high standards of care and development of clinical practice.
• Point of contact for the Divisional Nursing and Quality Team
• Ensuring that all auditing and governance requirements are met at site including participation and compliance with the Priory Audit Calendar.
• Developing and contributing to the Governance Reports and relevant regular reports
• Attending, contributing, sharing outcomes and learnings from a number of forums including Clinical Governance, Health and Safety, Risk and Reducing Restrictive Practice.
• Have oversight of Hospital restrictive practices and implementing, auditing and review of strategies to reduce them
• Facilitating compliance with the company incident and serious incident policy and support staff in the investigation of serious incidents in line with company policy. This includes support with 24/72hr notifications and TIRs.
• Leading investigations and reviews, including serious incidents, thematic reviews, safeguarding whistle blowing complaints, providing reports within the given timescales and in accordance with policies

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Or further information please contact our HR team at Priory Stockton hall on 01904400500.