Job summary
Are you passionate about urgent and emergency care provision in the community?
If so, we are seeking a medical Divisional Director to shape and develop our community out of hospital offer to the 1.3 million people that we serve in Sussex.
This is an exciting opportunity to further transform integrated pathways of care for patients, particularly those living with frailty, working closely with both Primary Care and Acute clinicians to improve admission avoidance and early supported discharge.
You will provide strategic direction and medical leadership within our new unplanned care triumvirate to our virtual wards, urgent community response services, urgent treatment centres, minor injury units, intermediate care bedded units, One Call, palliative care single point of access ECHO and overnight services across Sussex.
Main duties of the job
The Divisional Medical Director aspect of the role (6 sessions) assumes responsibility for:
Leading, co-ordinating and ensuring excellent clinical standards and a patient-centred approach is delivered equitably for all service users, families and carers.
Ensuring the voice of the patient is heard and this can be demonstrated in improvement.
Ensuring patient outcomes and productivity are maximised through the development and implementation of evidence-based care pathways and the reduction in unwarranted clinical variation.
Ensure safe medical staffing is delivered and lead the recruitment and retention within clinical services within portfolio.
Create with the Divisional Nursing Director, a strong, open, learning safety culture within the services.
Ensure continuous improvement, professional and leadership development and research are a core component to the clinical services within remit.
The direct clinical care aspect of the role (2-3 sessions) will deliver clinical care in our intermediate care bedded units in the east of the Trust's footprint.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staffo Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential
- MBBS/MRCGP
- Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice
- Certificate of Completion of Training in General Practice or equivalent and Inclusion on the GMC GP Register (or within 6 months at time of interview)
- Entry on the NHS England GP Performers List
Desirable
- Qualification in Business/Medical Management
Experience
Essential
- Proven record in Medical Management and /or leadership
- Clear understanding of the NHS systems and agenda and strategic issues in health care and ability to interpret these in a given setting
- Understanding of current clinical and other issues relating to community healthcare
- Understanding of the corporate agenda including risk management, patient safety, budgets and governance issues
- Knowledge and practical experience of clinical governance
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Effective clinical skills
- Evidence of caring attitude towards patients and carers
- Knowledge of regulations and the law as it relates to medical professional performance and revalidation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Decision maker with demonstrable strategic vision
- Ability to work under extreme pressure to tight deadlines
- Ability to work with long term planning time frames whilst dealing with the immediacy of acute operational issues
- Proven ability to build strong and effective working relationships and networks that interface with GPs and wider clinical leadership across the health community
- Able to work with complexity and translate this into simple strategies for staff
- Demonstrate understanding of the unique qualities and needs of a team and ability to provide a caring, safe environment to enable everyone to do their jobs effectively
- Use and interpret varied information and data to generate new ideas and make effective plans for improvement or change
- Demonstrate understanding of how health and social care services fit together and how different people, teams or organisations interconnect and interact
- Able to communicate a compelling and credible vision of the future in a way that makes it feel achievable and exciting
- Ability to involve individuals and demonstrate that their contributions and ideas are valued and important for delivering outcomes and improvements
- Able to agree clear performance/productivity goals and quality/outcome indicators for services, supporting individuals and teams to take responsibility for results and providing balanced feedback
- Able to build capability within the workforce to enable people to meet future challenges
- Demonstrate an understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion within the workforce and health care delivery
- Able to use interpersonal and organisational understanding to persuade and build collaboration
Desirable
- Able to work as part of a team, using own and others skills and adopting a coaching style to drive individual and organisational performance
- HR management ability
- An understanding of a business centred approach to health care provision
- Project Planning
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the job
Person Specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential
- MBBS/MRCGP
- Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice
- Certificate of Completion of Training in General Practice or equivalent and Inclusion on the GMC GP Register (or within 6 months at time of interview)
- Entry on the NHS England GP Performers List
Desirable
- Qualification in Business/Medical Management
Experience
Essential
- Proven record in Medical Management and /or leadership
- Clear understanding of the NHS systems and agenda and strategic issues in health care and ability to interpret these in a given setting
- Understanding of current clinical and other issues relating to community healthcare
- Understanding of the corporate agenda including risk management, patient safety, budgets and governance issues
- Knowledge and practical experience of clinical governance
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Effective clinical skills
- Evidence of caring attitude towards patients and carers
- Knowledge of regulations and the law as it relates to medical professional performance and revalidation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Decision maker with demonstrable strategic vision
- Ability to work under extreme pressure to tight deadlines
- Ability to work with long term planning time frames whilst dealing with the immediacy of acute operational issues
- Proven ability to build strong and effective working relationships and networks that interface with GPs and wider clinical leadership across the health community
- Able to work with complexity and translate this into simple strategies for staff
- Demonstrate understanding of the unique qualities and needs of a team and ability to provide a caring, safe environment to enable everyone to do their jobs effectively
- Use and interpret varied information and data to generate new ideas and make effective plans for improvement or change
- Demonstrate understanding of how health and social care services fit together and how different people, teams or organisations interconnect and interact
- Able to communicate a compelling and credible vision of the future in a way that makes it feel achievable and exciting
- Ability to involve individuals and demonstrate that their contributions and ideas are valued and important for delivering outcomes and improvements
- Able to agree clear performance/productivity goals and quality/outcome indicators for services, supporting individuals and teams to take responsibility for results and providing balanced feedback
- Able to build capability within the workforce to enable people to meet future challenges
- Demonstrate an understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion within the workforce and health care delivery
- Able to use interpersonal and organisational understanding to persuade and build collaboration
Desirable
- Able to work as part of a team, using own and others skills and adopting a coaching style to drive individual and organisational performance
- HR management ability
- An understanding of a business centred approach to health care provision
- Project Planning
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the job
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
