Chief Medical Officer | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

North East London NHS Foundation Trust; Ilford; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Chief Medical Officer to lead the medical profession's development and improve clinical governance. The ideal candidate will be a qualified medical practitioner with extensive senior experience. Responsibilities include shaping strategies and fostering a compassionate culture. This role offers an opportunity to work in an inclusive environment focused on staff wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Qualified medical practitioner with senior experience at or close to Board level.
• Experience leading multi-professional groups.
• Strong track record of developing new roles and ways of working in a complex organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead role in shaping strategies for professional practice.
• Provide strategic leadership in clinical governance and Quality Improvement.
• Develop and manage all elements of the medical profession within NELFT.

Job description

Chief Medical Officer

The Chief Medical Officer is a critical member of the Trust Board and Executive Team.

You will take the lead role in shaping progressive strategies for the development of professional practice and the voice of medics throughout the trust and, together with our Executive Director of Allied Health Professions, Psychological Professions & Social Work and Chief Nurse, provide strategic leadership in relation to clinical governance and Quality Improvement. You will also be responsible for the development and management of all elements of the medical profession within NELFT.

We deliver our services with pride in an area with significant social and economic deprivation, and we work hard to address those factors that have historically adversely impacted those we serve. To achieve this goal, our Chief Medical Officer will need to continuously strive to improve the wellbeing of our staff, and create an organisation where people want to work, feel valued, included and empowered.

We are seeking a qualified medical practitioner with senior experience at or close to Board level. You will have experience of leading multi-professional groups and realising the transformative potential of colleagues across professions. You will have a strong track record of developing new roles and new ways of working in a large, complex organisation. Importantly, too, you will live our values and be a champion for a compassionate, fair and just culture underpinned by diversity, equality, inclusion and human rights.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

Starting with Us

NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend several drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

For a confidential conversation, please contact Paul Calaminus, Chief Executive, via [e-mail]

This advert closes on Monday 17 Nov 2025