Chief Medical Officer’s Fellow - August 2025

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is inviting applications for the Chief Medical Officer's Fellow position. This role involves ensuring clinical quality metrics and leading quality improvement initiatives within an NHS Trust. Suitable for those aiming to enhance their skills in clinical governance, it offers a chance to work on significant healthcare projects that contribute positively to patient safety.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years full time post graduate training or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working on a Clinical Governance or similar project.
• Basic clinical knowledge appropriate to level of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Develop clinical quality metrics for continuous quality improvement.
• Work with teams to promote patient safety and governance initiatives.
• Participate in clinical duties and quality assessment processes.

Skills

Clinical Governance

Quality Improvement

Team Working

Leadership

Education

Medical Degree from a recognised University

Full GMC

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Chief Medical Officer’s Fellow - August 2025

The closing date is 07 July 2025

Applications are invited for the posts of Chief Medical Officer's Fellow, under the Trust's Terms & Conditions of Service for Locally Employed Doctors. This is a fixed term 12 month post which will form part of the team delivering the Chief Medical Officer's work programmes across UHB Trust. This post will be responsible for giving the clinical steer required to ensure that clinical quality metrics are developed with the necessary clinical background and detail. It will suit an individual wishing to develop skills in quality improvement, management, team working and leadership to potentially pursue a career in hospital management.

This is a key medical role working both clinically and on clinical data developments as per the trust's commitment to improving real-time patient safety monitoring metrics as part of internal and external reporting (CQC and other regulators), plus continuous quality improvement, PSIRF patient safety priorities and the Health Observatory.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will need to work with a range of individuals from different professional backgrounds and different specialties, as well as other senior members of the project team, to further the Health Observatory and other governance work within the Trust.

To ensure the development of a range of clinically designed metrics that meet both the requirements of the Trust, national standards and operational and clinical requirements. This could be as part of a Patient Safety Priority, Health Inequalities Strategy, etc.

To support the development of audit and training processes around QI project standards as required.

To apply QI project standards to clinical guidelines and policies in collaboration with specialty teams and controlled documents

To support the broader quality and clinical governance agenda as directed by the CMO and a Deputy CMO.

The postholder will be given the opportunity to participate in clinical duties (including on-call) as appropriate for their background and potential career based specialties. This will be arranged on a case-by-case basis by the DCMO - Clinical Governance.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Based on themes from actions arising from patient safety learning responses, new groups have been established to ensure that the quality improvement work undertaken for patient safety is adequately standardised and prioritised. Key to this work is the development of clinical quality metrics as part of the trust's continuous quality improvement methodology.

This post represents an opportunity to gain further experience of quality improvement, clinical governance and healthcare management within a large and complex NHS Trust which would be well suited for a candidate with aspirations to develop a career in any of these areas.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC
• Medical Degree from a recognised University

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years full time post graduate training (its equivalent gained on a part time basis) or equivalent experience and competencies.
• Able to demonstrate basic clinical knowledge appropriate to level of responsibility.
• Experience of working on a Clinical Governance or similar project (D)

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

£49,909 to £61,825 a yearDependent on experience