Clinical Team Lead

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Job OverviewAn exciting clinical leadership post has become available within Digital Services at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, providing the opportunity for an individual to help shape the future of digitally enabled care in Somerset. Digital Services are looking for an experienced, innovative, and enthusiastic clinical leader to support the delivery of digitally enabled clinical transformation across the organisation.The Clinical Team Lead will work directly with clinical teams across the Trust, providing a key link between frontline clinical care and digital services teams, including the established digital clinical team, technical teams, suppliers and external NHS bodies. The successful candidate will be expected to lead clinical engagement across the Trust for a wide range of clinically focused projects, utilising their clinical knowledge and leadership skills to support and guide effective clinical transformation enabled by digital solutions and engaged, empowered frontline teams.This opportunity to help shape and lead our nationally recognised digital programme is open to any individual that feels they have the knowledge and ambition to redefine care processes with digital technology.Main duties of the jobThe post holder will be the Clinical Lead for Digital Services, utilising their clinical leadership skills and experience to support and lead digital transformation in clinical areas across the organisation.The post holder will oversee the delivery of key digital transformation objectives within the Trust and will act as a role model and expert practitioner for clinical staff.The post holder will line manage the Digital Clinical Team, providing proactive leadership support, enabling colleagues to build knowledge and skills within digital transformation.The post holder’s role will drive forward complex clinical and service change within the organisation by engaging and supporting the delivery of IT and clinical transformation as part of the Digital Programme.The core function of this role will be to enable the delivery of Digital functionality within the scope of the Programme and to lead change as a result.The post holder will ensure communication is maintained between key clinical and non-clinical stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation and will ensure that organisational procedures are adhered to and that objectives are identified and met, as well as facilitating the identification and realisation of benefits.Working for our organisationWhy Somerset?Somerset is a beautifully diverse place to live with so much to do! Whether you enjoy countryside walks or coastal visits, shopping, festivals, dining out in lovely restaurants or visiting beautiful woodlands and lakes, there’s something for everyone.Taunton is an attractive market town within easy reach of Bristol and Exeter. It is also close to Exmoor and Dartmoor, the Quantock Hills and two coast lines, including North Devon’s beaches.About The TrustSomerset NHS Foundation Trust is the first NHS trust on the English mainland to provide community, mental health and acute hospital services. We work with health and social care partners in Somerset to ensure that we deliver outstanding services that meet the needs of our population.Our trust was formed on 1 April 2020 when Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust merged. We provide community and mental health services across the whole of Somerset and acute hospital services in the north, west and centre of the county and beyond.If you are successful for interview, you will be required to bring the following with you: Proof of any essential qualifications stated on the Job Description, proof of NHS payslip if coming from another NHS Organisation and Photo ID to prove your identity and Right to Work (More details will follow for successful applicants invited to interview)Our values are simple: Outstanding Care, Working Together, Listening and Leading.BenefitsWith this in mind, we offer a range of colleague benefits includingWe recognise that our colleagues are our most valuable resource, we are proud of the excellent levels of service our Trust provides to our service users and the dedication and conscientious of our colleagues.Excellent annual leave entitlementEnhanced rates of payNHS Pension SchemeFree parking on most of our sitesNHS discountsTraining and developmentFlexible workingPaid registration fees for the 1st year for newly qualified colleaguesFor more information please contact the recruitment team via email: SomersetNHSJobs@SomersetFT.nhs.ukBy submitting your application to NHS Jobs/Trac, you are giving your consent for elements of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation; to be used by Recruitment for purposes of checking your Professional Registration online (where applicable), any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national Electronic Staff Record (ESR).These processes are in line with Fair and Lawful processing and with the Data Protection Act (2018) standards especially those in relation to your personal or sensitive personal data ( sensitive personal data is defined as any declared physical or mental health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, trade union membership, political opinion, religious beliefs). Other principles under Data Protection will be observed such as use of data for specific, defined purposes, and use of data that is relevant and not excessive whilst practicing data accuracy and security of all held personal identifiable information (PII).Our trust has been awarded HSJ Mental Health Trust of the Year for 2021, This award follows a busy time for Somerset FT, now in its second year as a trust providing mental health and learning disability services, community and acute hospital services following a merger in April 2020. For more information on this fantastic award, please click herePlease Note: Our Trust is undergoing a merger to enable Yeovil Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to become one combined organisation in April 2023. If you are successful in securing employment with the Trust we wanted to make you aware of this proposed merger. If this merger is confirmed, your employment will continue as part of the newly formed Trust.