Medical Director - Physical Health and Neurodiversity

Job summary

The Medical Director post is a key member of the Senior Leadership Team of the Physical Health and Neurodiversity Care Group. They will lead the medical professions within the Care Group but also play an essential part of the transformation of patient care pathways across the three directorates of the Care Group. This will involve working with primary care and acute services across Doncaster, Rotherham and North Lincolnshire.

In conjunction with the Care Group Nurse Director, this post will contribute to creating a positive safety culture, where the environment is collaboratively crafted, created, and nurtured so that everybody (individual staff, teams, patients, service users, families, and carers) can flourish to ensure brilliant, safe care by:

1. Continuous learning and improvement of safety risks

2. Supportive, psychologically safe teamwork

3. Enabling and empowering speaking up by all

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be a collaborative, visible, inclusive and compassionate leader with values and behaviours that inspire understanding and trust, build inclusion and reduce inequalities.

The postholder will lead and manage the medical workforce within the care group.

It is expected that the successful candidate will become a medical appraiser within their first year in post if they are not already.

The post holder will work in collaboration with other clinical directors within the care group to support the delivery of a robust quality governance framework, as part of the collective leadership team supporting the delivery of effective, safe, and high-quality care delivery to patients, carers and their families.

The postholder will contribute to the strategic direction for safe and high-quality services; this will include the development and delivery of key actions within the Trust Strategy and other relevant clinical plans.

To postholder will be accountable to the Deputy Medical Directors in relation to the leadership and management of safe medical staffing and caseloads oversight across the services, escalating concerns and offering solutions where possible.

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook