Senior Clinical Lead GP - Newhaven

Within these overall goals, the role of the Senior Lead GP is as follows: a) Clinical Leadership Provide visible clinical leadership Be a point of contact for practice staff who need support and guidance over quality and safety concerns. This may include a formal role in some staff members appraisals in some instances. Develop clinical governance strategies, systems and processes and ensure the active participation by all medical staff. Works with practice management to lead the wider practice team including regular attendance at practice meetings Support career development of clinical staff Build relationships with SPC Education Lead, Senior GP leads and ACP clinical leads from other SPC Practices and share learning and good practice Play a key role in service improvement planning for the future, bringing the quality and safety concerns to the fore and ensuring these are balanced with organisational and financial concerns. Develop and maintain active working relationships with PCNs Sign off and implement any additional policies/procedures as required Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of QOF/LCS and IIF Attend quality assurance meetings and education meetings with other senior clinical lead GPs and with Medical Director for quality assurance purposes and agree to work in line with SPC Clinical Governance structure To work collaboratively with practice management operational team and ACP clinical lead as practice executive team b) Clinical Quality/Safety Be responsible for taking an overview of the clinical functions in your SPC GP practice in terms of service quality and safety. Ensure that the systems exist to embed best clinical practice into the service (e.g. implementation of NICE guidance, record keeping etc.) Take the overall lead for review of clinical aspects of Significant Event reviews and complaints, ensuring that learning points are captured, documented, actioned and embedded into practice Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of CQC readiness Ensure that the systems exist to embed patient safety across the service (e.g., record keeping, national and local safety alerts) Take the overall lead for arranging practice education meetings and ensuring that clinical staff are made aware of changes to clinical guidelines and policy Be the Caldicott Guardian for your SPC Practice Be the lead clinician for ensuring that all areas of clinical leadership (see SPC Clinical Leadership Model) are covered within the practice c) Supervision You will be responsible for delivering peer-based support across the practice team and be responsible for arranging the group supervision of practice based non-medical prescribers alongside the ACP Clinical Lead Provide supervision in line with SPC Clinical Leadership model Job description Job responsibilities Within these overall goals, the role of the Senior Lead GP is as follows: a) Clinical Leadership Provide visible clinical leadership Be a point of contact for practice staff who need support and guidance over quality and safety concerns. This may include a formal role in some staff members appraisals in some instances. Develop clinical governance strategies, systems and processes and ensure the active participation by all medical staff. Works with practice management to lead the wider practice team including regular attendance at practice meetings Support career development of clinical staff Build relationships with SPC Education Lead, Senior GP leads and ACP clinical leads from other SPC Practices and share learning and good practice Play a key role in service improvement planning for the future, bringing the quality and safety concerns to the fore and ensuring these are balanced with organisational and financial concerns. Develop and maintain active working relationships with PCNs Sign off and implement any additional policies/procedures as required Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of QOF/LCS and IIF Attend quality assurance meetings and education meetings with other senior clinical lead GPs and with Medical Director for quality assurance purposes and agree to work in line with SPC Clinical Governance structure To work collaboratively with practice management operational team and ACP clinical lead as practice executive team b) Clinical Quality/Safety Be responsible for taking an overview of the clinical functions in your SPC GP practice in terms of service quality and safety. Ensure that the systems exist to embed best clinical practice into the service (e.g. implementation of NICE guidance, record keeping etc.) Take the overall lead for review of clinical aspects of Significant Event reviews and complaints, ensuring that learning points are captured, documented, actioned and embedded into practice Be responsible for leading on the clinical components of CQC readiness Ensure that the systems exist to embed patient safety across the service (e.g., record keeping, national and local safety alerts) Take the overall lead for arranging practice education meetings and ensuring that clinical staff are made aware of changes to clinical guidelines and policy Be the Caldicott Guardian for your SPC Practice Be the lead clinician for ensuring that all areas of clinical leadership (see SPC Clinical Leadership Model) are covered within the practice c) Supervision You will be responsible for delivering peer-based support across the practice team and be responsible for arranging the group supervision of practice based non-medical prescribers alongside the ACP Clinical Lead Provide supervision in line with SPC Clinical Leadership model