Site Medical Director

Job responsibilities

Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and learning from incidents

Work closely with the Executive Teams to embed a patient safety culture throughout the Trusts and associated sites.

Disseminate best practice and promote governance including clinical audit, research, service improvement and learning from safety incidents.

Engage in activity to develop and implement the quality improvement strategy to ensure consistent delivery of healthcare that is safe, effective, person-centred, timely, efficient and equitable.

Put in place the governance arrangements that will enable us to deliver our patient services in the safest possible way.

Promote a culture committed to learning from complaints, incidents, audit, research, and development.

Regularly review quality and safety, governance and risk, operational performance, and other statutory and mandatory key performance indicators at site level to ensure all areas are performing and that risk is escalated through approved pathways to the Joint Executive team and Board.

Contribute to the development of the Combined Quality Strategy.

Appraisal and Revalidation

Hold delegated responsibility from the Chief Medical Officer for ensuring that all doctors with a prescribed connection to the organisation undertake a high quality and consistent form of annual medical appraisal to support the process of medical revalidation.

Responsible for ensuring that all appraisers have completed accredited training and receive updates as required.

Lead on the Trusts delivery of the consultants annual appraisal cycle, in line with the Trust medical appraisal policy and GMC revalidation requirements.

With the support of the Responsible Officer and the Workforce team, lead on resolving issues relating to the performance and misconduct of medical staff for the site and, when necessary, the implementation of Maintaining High Professional Standards.

Infection Control

Work with the Chief Nurse (DiPC), to oversee the control of infection prevention and control policies and their implementation together with the Infection Prevention & Control teams.

Challenge inappropriate clinical hygiene practice as well as antibiotic prescribing decisions working with the infection control teams.

Assess the impact of all existing and new policies and plans on infection and make recommendations for change.

Trust-wide Job Planning

Oversee the consistent application of job planning principles working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, Divisional Directors and Divisional Medical Directors and Medical Staffing Teams.

Support Divisional Medical Directors in the job planning process and escalate inconsistencies to the Chief Medical Officer as required.

Leadership and People Management

Support and act on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer in handling concerns about the performance or behaviour of doctors and dentists.

Actively promote compassionate, inclusive leadership together with the Trusts values, and culture of the organisation, through appropriate personal behaviour and development. Implement relevant policies.

Take such action as may be necessary in disciplinary matters in accordance with procedures laid down by the Trust.

Participate where necessary in the handling of performance management processes.

Take responsibility for your own performance and take action to address identified personal development areas

Provide visible and effective leadership for all medical staff on site, promoting continuous professional development, medical education and appraisal and monitoring individual performance.

Use feedback, (e.g. from the national staff survey, GMC survey, etc), to improve and enhance the experience of medical staff at all grades across the organisation, ensuring they are engaged and empowered.

Promote a culture of speaking up where concerns are addressed, action is taken to manage concerns, poor behaviour in any form is challenged and doctors believe their voices are heard in decision making

Develop the medical staff cohort to consistently demonstrate the Trust values

Promote the Trusts policies on equality of opportunity, and the promotion of good relations through his/her own actions, and ensure that these policies are adhered to by staff for whom he/she has responsibility.

Act as the representative of the Chief Medical Officer on Trust Consultant appointments committees.

Be the named Acting Chief Medical Officer when the Chief Medical Officer is on leave, undertaking all essential internal and external activity including attendance at Board level committees, if required.

Financial Management

As part of the senior leadership Team deliver a balanced budget each year, including agreed cost improvement plans for the budget(s) managed and supporting those within the service areas.

Actively work with Divisional Medical Directors to develop Trust Efficiency schemes, encouraging them to work with Divisional Management teams to lead and take forward transformation/efficiency schemes

General

Participate in the Trust appraisal process and work towards meeting identified development needs.

Qualifications

Essential

• Full Registration (GP/Specialist registration) with the GMC.
• Hold current Licence to Practice.
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development, including accredited leadership development.
• Unblemished professional conduct record

Desirable

• Member/ Fellow of appropriate Medical Royal College
• Educated to Masters level or equivalent specialist medical qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of practice as a consultant in chosen specialty at a high level to allow high level of credibility to include demonstrable understanding of all aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate education, and delivery of research.
• Highly effective leadership skills gained through experience in a Clinical Director/Clinical Lead role.
• Dynamic personality with the ability to build extensive and trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks.
• Exceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness, with excellent written, verbal and presentational communication skills.
• The ability to build organisation capabilities, to articulate and gain commitment to a clear strategic vision, giving focus, clarity and direction to translate into successful outcomes.
• The capacity to think and influence strategically and have the ability to analyse and solve highly complex problems, finding new solutions and breaking new ground where required
• The ability to encourage creativity in others and be open to innovative thinking.
• A proven ability to set ambitious targets and monitor against targets to secure organisational success.
• Possess the insight to be able to anticipate problems, to understand the driving forces behind problems, or potential problems and being able to identify and use the levers to achieve change.
• Have the political acumen and an ability to understand the culture, climate, and politics within the Trust; be attuned to the sensitivities of different stakeholder interests within the Trust, and work sensitively to overcome the differing positions and interests of these.

Desirable

• High quality business and service planning skills

Knowledge

Essential

• Financial Management: including budget management, profitability analysis and forecasting. People Management: including staff management, staff development and team building.
• Understanding of the provision and delivery of health care services and of Government's strategy and plans for modernising health care.
• Thorough knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the National Health Service and its inter-relationship with other agencies.
• Understanding of the implications for medical staff of the modernisation agenda.
• Extensive knowledge of clinical audit, Research and Development.
• Thorough understanding of the economic, financial and organisational complexities of the NHS including current national policies and change programmes

Skills

Essential

• Commitment to principles and practices of compassionate leadership.
• Commitment to self-development with ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of key policies and themes in the healthcare provision in the UK.
• An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance.
• Commitment to promote equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development.

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).