Summary: The Clinical Lead role at Bryn Beryl Community Hospital is a two-year fixed-term position focused on delivering high-quality patient-centered care. The position involves collaboration with the hospital management team and multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure clinical governance and service improvement. The role also emphasizes mentoring staff and contributing to strategic decisions for the hospital's future. A proactive leader is sought to balance strategic priorities with hands-on clinical support to enhance patient outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide Clinical Leadership: Act as the senior clinical point of reference for the hospital, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care.
- Drive Service Development: Work with the management team to enhance services in line with the Integrated Health Community (IHC) strategy.
- Ensure Clinical Governance: Oversee compliance with Health Board policies, audit processes, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Mentor and Support Staff: Promote a culture of learning and professional development across the hospital team.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with the GP practice delivering inpatient services and other stakeholders to ensure seamless care.
- Maintain High Clinical Standards: Keep up to date with best practice and support colleagues in applying national and local guidance.
- Operational Oversight: Ensure medical cover arrangements, participate in mortality reviews, and support safe patient admissions and discharges.
- Budget Awareness: Work with the responsible budget holder to ensure effective resource management.
- Communication and Representation: Actively represent the hospital at IHC and other relevant meetings, and support responses to patient feedback.
Key Skills:
- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise and entry on the GP Register.
- Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice / Certificate Confirming Eligibility for General Practice Registration (CEGPR), or equivalent.
- Included on a Medical Performers List or eligible.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Proven ability to handle a busy and varied primary care caseload and respond flexibly to workload fluctuations.
- Ability to take independent clinical decisions when necessary and to seek advice from senior doctors as appropriate.
- Commitment to team approach and multi-disciplinary working.
- Effective counselling and communication skills.
- Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
- Good IT proficiency.
- Ability to work across organisations to deliver a common objective.
- Ability to draft letters, reports and protocols in a timely manner.
- Ability to develop and sustain relationships with a wide range of individuals and within groups.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Pwllheli
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Lead role in Bryn Beryl Community Hospital on a two-year fixed-term contract. This role is pivotal in delivering high-quality patient centred care within the Community Hospital Setting. The Clinical Lead will work closely with the hospital management team, Medical Director, and multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure the highest standards of care, robust clinical governance, and continuous service improvement. The role also involves mentoring and supporting staff, fostering a culture of learning, and contributing to strategic decisions that influence the hospital’s future direction. This role requires a proactive leader who can balance strategic priorities with hands-on clinical support, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes. Medical oversight for inpatient services at Bryn Beryl Community Hospital is currently provided through a contract with a local GP Surgery. We particularly welcome applications from individuals who are currently employed by the current contract provider and have experience delivering services in this setting, as this will help maintain continuity and support collaborative, cohesive service delivery aligned with the current service model across other Community Hospital settings within the West Integrated Health Community.
Main duties of the job
- Provide Clinical Leadership: Act as the senior clinical point of reference for the hospital, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care.
- Drive Service Development: Work with the management team to enhance services in line with the Integrated Health Community (IHC) strategy.
- Ensure Clinical Governance: Oversee compliance with Health Board policies, audit processes, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Mentor and Support Staff: Promote a culture of learning and professional development across the hospital team.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with the GP practice delivering inpatient services and other stakeholders to ensure seamless care.
- Maintain High Clinical Standards: Keep up to date with best practice and support colleagues in applying national and local guidance.
- Operational Oversight: Ensure medical cover arrangements, participate in mortality reviews, and support safe patient admissions and discharges.
- Budget Awareness: Work with the responsible budget holder to ensure effective resource management.
- Communication and Representation: Actively represent the hospital at IHC and other relevant meetings, and support responses to patient feedback.
Working for our organisation If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework. Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form. Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise and entry on the GP Register
- Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice / Certificate Confirming Eligibility for General Practice Registration (CEGPR), or equivalent
- Included on a Medical Performers List or eligible
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Academic excellence (prizes, merits, distinctions etc.)
- MRCGP
Experience
Essential criteria
- Vocational GP Training
Skills, Knowledge and Ability
- Proven ability to handle a busy and varied primary care caseload and respond flexibly to workload fluctuations
- Ability to take independent clinical decisions when necessary and to seek advice from senior doctors as appropriate
- Commitment to team approach and multi-disciplinary working
- Effective counselling and communication skills
- Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
- Commitment to participating in and understanding of the management process
- Good IT proficiency
- Ability to work across organisations to deliver a common objective
- Ability to draft letters, reports and protocols in a timely manner
- Ability to develop and sustain relationships with a wide range of individuals and within groups
Desirable criteria
- Audit
- Research interests relevant to specialty
- Teaching / Training experience
- Managing & Supporting Staff
Personal Qualities
Essential Criteria
- Motivated and efficient
- Commitment to learn and best practice
