Chief Medical Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

Operational Responsibilities

Take the lead medical role in developing and implementing the clinical strategy ensuring the provision of an appropriate and effective range of services and that planned changes or developments are clinically sound.

As the lead doctor on site, provide appropriate professional and clinical leadership in the delivery of healthcare services and act as the Responsible Officer in the supervision of the conduct and performance of all doctors and dentists working in the Trust.

Develop clinical leadership and high levels of engagement in delivering high quality outcomes, high levels of patient and staff satisfaction and clinical productivity.

Corporate responsibility for medicine management including pharmacy services.

Encourage the achievement of continuous improvement and excellence in the provision of clinical services throughout the Trust.

Advise the Trust on the impact of professional issues, statutory requirements, changes in clinical practice and the provision of clinical services.

Ensure that the medical and dental workforce is compliant with statutory regulations and professional recommendations.

Clinical Governance and Quality

Promote continuous improvement and excellence in the provision of clinical services throughout the Trust.

Lead in the areas of clinical effectiveness, audit, mortality, antimicrobial stewardship, medicines management, and the development of the academic programme.

Establish systems to provide high standards of care, based on good practice, clinical effectiveness, research evidence, national standards and guidelines and to audit compliance with those standards.

Act as the Caldicott Guardian for the Trust, ensuring that it complies with the requirements for information governance

Lead on clinical governance matters involving doctors and dentists.

Work with the Chief Nursing Officer to demonstrate compliance with CQC standards, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to deliver and demonstrate improving clinical quality and meet national and Trust standards.

Work with the Chief Nursing Officer and other senior clinical leads to ensure that the Board is appraised of the views of clinicians from the ward to the Board.

Service Planning and Development

In conjunction with the Chief Nursing Officer support clinical involvement in the formulation and implementation of clinical strategy, ensuring that the range of services provided is sustainable and appropriate and that proposed service developments are clinically sound.

Work with the Education Providers, and other senior clinicians, to develop the overarching academic programme encompassing research and development and further enhances the Trusts reputation as an employer of choice.

Work with the Chief Nursing Officer to continuously develop a clinical workforce model that makes the most of all is sustainable, exploring alternative roles and new ways of working

Work with Health Education England to oversee training opportunities and programmes offered to trainees within the Trust, to ensure they are effective.

Develop service innovation ideas and feed into business development;

Provide clinical input and leadership into business development;

Work with doctors across the Trust to improve productivity using relevant benchmarking tools and information e.g. Model Hospital and Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT).

Organisational Development

Promote the development of an organisational culture within clinical operational services that is respectful to patients and staff and innovation and productivity focussed.

Develop a wide range of clinical networks to drive forward the development of high quality, local acute and community services that support delivery of the Trusts vision and purpose.

Work closely with the Chief People Officer in the delivery of the medical and dental workforce agenda and the formulation of a workforce plan which underpins the Trusts clinical service strategy and achieves compliance with regulations and professional guidance.

Ensure an effective relationship exists with the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network and the Trust.

Leadership and People Management

Set and ensure the maintenance of high professional standards for the Trusts medical and dental workforce.

Build a high performing team to deliver results against a background of significant change and financial challenge.

Create a culture of personal accountability through the implementation of a clear system of appraisal, supervision and support and ensure that key success factors are understood and delivered.

Oversee all recruitment, training, development and issues concerning the medical and dental workforce.

Ensure on-going improvement in the medical workforce engagement and national staff survey recommendation of the trust as both a place to work and receive care.

Empower the medical workforce to develop knowledge, skills and competencies relevant to their roles and strengthen capabilities of leadership, management and staff ensuring effective succession planning is in place.

Ensure the Trust meets its obligations to HEE at regional and national level (and its replacement function in NHSE), the west midland deanery,the Royal Colleges and NHS guidance, regulations and recommendations, for the training of its junior and undergraduate doctors; ensure the Trust has an excellent reputation for high quality junior doctor and undergraduate training.

Ensure recommended action is taken following junior doctor surveys.

Ensure that procedures are in place, and made known to all doctors and dentists, for reporting a colleague when they have concerns that their conduct, performance or health might be a threat to patients/service users.

External Relations

Establish and develop good working relationships with local stakeholders, especially GPs in Warwickshire, Warwickshire County Council, ICB, Group colleagues and neighbouring NHS Trusts, to assure and improve patient care for the population of Warwickshire. Take the lead on liaising with other providers on clinical practice matters.

On Call

To participate in the Trust Executive on call rota and provide leadership, advice and guidance.

Communications and Working Relationships

Board of Directors

Group Strategy Committee

Trust Chief Officer Team, and Senior Managers

ICS, NHS Improvement and NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Health and Wellbeing Board, Overview and Scrutiny Committee, Health and Care Partnership

Local Authority and other local providers including Primary Care, Mental Health and Social Services

Local Voluntary and Representative Groups

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

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Desirable

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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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Directors C26054

Warwick Hospital

Warwick

CV34 5BW

Employer's website

https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)