Our clinical leadership and plans for the future
First blog from our Medical Director Dr Chris Hosker including some exciting new appointments
Hi, I’m Chris and I am the Trust’s Medical Director.
Since I came into post in the summer of 2020, I’ve been working with colleagues in my directorate to set out a plan to take us through the next few months and into the next few years, as we respond to the pandemic, reset our services, and work towards a consistent provision of high quality services.
I’m writing this, my first official blog, to update you on our progress.
The table below sets out our overarching vision and the key priorities beneath that I believe will help us to achieve it.
We will provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that:
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| World class clinical leadership and teams who deliver outstanding high quality services | “Best in show”
Be a beacon for other NHS trusts. |
Excellent, joined up research and development | Encourage and harness collaborative clinical working and solutions at integrated care system level. | Lead our Trust through Covid related challenges. |
Beyond the immediate challenges of the Covid crisis, my number one priority is centred on clinical leadership. It is:
“To deliver world class clinical leadership through revised clinical leadership roles and structures that ensure individual services are led and owned by clinical leads and heads of operations working in dyads (or teams of two).
“They will be supported by experts in clinical governance and professional leadership, working together effectively within equitable arrangements and as close to the front line as possible.”
With this in mind, I’d like to share some news that I know will help us to delivery this priority.
We are introducing two new Clinical Director posts to the Trust, and I’m delighted to announce that Lyndsey Charles and Dr H Eli Joubert will be taking up these roles, joining our current Clinical Directors, Tom Mullen and Dr Sophie Roberts, to create a team of four.
These new roles are also an outcome of the longstanding project that we’ve been undertaking to strengthen our clinical and professional leadership and clinical governance structures, and I’d like to thank everyone who has been involved in the engagement within this project.
So, we have a vision, a set of priorities, and the leadership within the medical directorate in place to really start working towards it. There’s plenty to get on with and I’m very much looking forward to working with this team to deliver our priorities.
One of the first things that I’ve asked the Clinical Directors to do is to work with others on the next stage of the Clinical Leadership review and to ultimately get us to the point where those that use our services will feel the benefits that having a properly resourced compassionate and inclusive clinical leadership model can deliver.
Working as a team of four will allow each of our Clinical Directors to remain clinically active and oversee service lines, whilst also providing focused leadership in specific priority areas such as medical management, measuring outcomes, patient safety, suicide prevention and more.
Tom Mullen will continue his work with the Woking Age Acute and Community and Wellbeing service lines.
Sophie Roberts will be focusing upon the CAMHS, Eating Disorder, Rehabilitation and Forensic service lines.
Eli Joubert will be working with the Regional Specialist, Liaison and Perinatal service lines.
Lyndsey Charles will be working with the Learning Disability and Older Peoples service lines.
Right now, we’re continuing to respond to the pandemic and the challenges related to this. It’s important that I work with all of you to look forwards, beyond our current situation, and set a direction for the future.
I’m really excited about what we will achieve, and I’m committed to our vision to provide outstanding care to the communities we serve. I look forward to working with you to achieve this.