SLP Clinical Director – Adult Eating Disorders

• Leading the development of an integrated AED pathway across community, day services, and inpatient care.
• Addressing health inequalities and enhancing clinical delivery.
• Ensuring service user and carer involvement in programme development.

• A strong background in clinical leadership and service transformation.
• Experience working collaboratively across organisations.
• A passion for improving patient care and reducing health inequalities
• The ability to establish new projects and initiatives effectively.

Essential

• Holds a senior clinical role within one of the partner organisations in an adult eating disorder clinical service, with a track record of leading these services and embedding change
• Experience of policy, guideline setting, strategy and clinical pathway development
• Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting
• Active experience leading and delivering quality improvement in a clinical setting
• Experience of collaborative working as part of a senior management team and working across complex health, social and criminal justice systems (where relevant)
• Experience of holding and handling communications with a wide range of stakeholders, including media
• Experience in a senior management role
• Track record in leading clinical staff through complex health transformation projects
• Experience in engaging a wide range of stakeholders including a variety of provider organisations and commissioners, local authorities and private sector groups
• Experience of working in an adult eating disorders clinical service

Essential

• Understanding of the evidence base and NICE guidance relevant to the SLP Clinical Programme
• Information skill: able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes and analytical skills
• High level influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing
• High level presentation skills
• Experienced in managing change across teams and in a multi-professional environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with clinicians, carers and service users to improve outcomes for the patients
• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
• Passionate about patient safety
• Credible in multi- professional environment
• Approachable
• Ability to work and liaise with individuals and groups at a wide variety of levels and profession

Desirable

• Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners
• Attained national Clinical Safety training for clinicians