Chief Medical Officer
The closing date is 26 April 2026
Job summary
Are you an inspiring clinical leader ready to shape the future of care for over 400,000 people? Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a visionary Chief Medical Officer to drive quality, safety and transformation across our organisation.
You'll provide strategic clinical leadership, champion innovation, and ensure exceptional standards of care across our hospital, community services and Royal Primary Care. You'll lead the development of our ambitious clinical strategy, strengthen partnerships across the system, and role model compassionate, inclusive leadership for our medical workforce.
You'll join a collaborative, supportive Executive Team committed to creating a workplace where colleagues thrive, innovation flourishes, and patient care continually improves.
With over 5,000 colleagues and our new Improving Care Together strategy launching this year, there has never been a more exciting time to join #TeamCRH.
If you're driven by purpose, collaboration and clinical excellence, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As Chief Medical Officer, you will provide strategic clinical leadership across the Trust--driving quality, safety and transformation. You'll develop our ambitious clinical strategy to deliver meaningful improvements in outcomes, experience and population health in line with the NHS 10 Year Plan.
Working closely with the Chief Nurse, Chief Operating Officer and wider Executive Team, you'll strengthen clinical performance, lead major transformation programmes, and champion clinically led service redesign that improves outcomes, experience and productivity.
As Responsible Officer and lead Caldicott Guardian, you'll ensure robust systems for quality, safety, revalidation and information governance.
You will provide visible, compassionate leadership to the medical workforce--supporting recruitment, development and culture--while building strong partnerships with system leaders, universities, local authorities, VCSE partners and primary care to drive integration and improvement.
About us
We employ more than 5,600 colleagues across Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Royal Primary Care and Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS) and we also have some fantastic volunteers supporting our services.
Here at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, we provide a full range of district general services, including 24-hour urgent and emergency care, specialist children's services, maternity and community midwifery to the population of north Derbyshire - around 400,000 local people.We also offer primary care services through nine GP surgeries in Chesterfield and Derbyshire.
This is an exciting year for our Trust, with our new 'Improving Care Together strategy' launching in April.
Shaped through meaningful conversations with patients, staff, volunteers and partners, this strategy captures our ambition to continually raise the quality of care we provide and to respond to the changing needs of our patients and communities.
A significant element of supporting our people includes compassionate and inclusive leadership. We know that people have a life outside of work, we offer a raft of support to care for your physical and mental wellbeing including a purpose-built Health Wellbeing Hub which includes access to a 24/7 gym.
Ours is a workplace in which you can proudly be yourself
Details
Date posted
02 April 2026
Pay scheme
Very senior manager (VSM)
Salary
Depending on experience VSM Salary Range
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
166-W&OD-7893902
Job locations
CRH
Calow
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
Employer details
Employer name
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
CRH
Calow
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
Employer's website
https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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