Divisional Medical Director - Medicine

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Derby; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a motivated senior clinician to join the Medicine Divisional Management Team. This role involves strategic leadership and clinical responsibilities aimed at enhancing service delivery across Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The ideal candidate will focus on patient safety, medical leadership, and transformational change within the Trust. This position includes opportunities for professional development and collaboration within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Employee assistance

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Strong passion for medical leadership and service improvement.
• Collaborative mindset to work with DMT and Executive Board.
• Commitment to achieving high standards in clinical service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensure patient safety and professional medical leadership.
• Drive medical training and education initiatives.
• Lead transformational change programmes.
• Implement NICE guidelines and meet CQC standards.

Job description

UHDB is seeking a dynamic, influential, motivated, and improvement-minded senior clinician to join the Medicine Divisional Management Team (DMT) to develop and deliver managerial and strategic support to the Division and the wider Trust.

While the DMD leadership role is a 3-year fixed-term appointment with a renewable process, the Trust offers a substantive full-time position. The role includes up to 4 Direct Clinical Care/Supporting Professional Activities in the selected specialty.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for medical leadership and a drive to continually improve clinical services. You will collaborate with the DMT and Executive Board to develop a strategy for the Division to become an outstanding service provider across Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Key Responsibilities

• Patient safety
• Professional medical leadership and development
• Medical training and education
• Transformational change programmes
• Implementation of NICE guidelines
• Meeting CQC standards
• Medical appraisal and revalidation
• Clinical audit and effectiveness
• Clinical knowledge management
• Medical devices
• Clinical coding
• Liaison with R&D lead

As a trusted organization committed to supporting the public, patients, staff, and partners, we aim to achieve the best health outcomes through Exceptional Care Together. Our core values of Compassion, Openness, and Excellence guide our work and behaviors.

What We Offer

• Development opportunities, including professional and leadership growth
• Ongoing support from recruitment through to integration and beyond
• Staff benefits such as employee assistance, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, and car schemes

About Our Trust

• Average of 4,810 outpatient appointments daily
• Fourth busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatient department in England
• Approximately 1,115 patients seen in A&E daily across our network
• Average of 195 emergency admissions daily
• Nearly 33,700 planned surgical operations last year across 57 theatres
• One of only 7 trusts nationally with more than 50 theatres
• Over 140 elective procedures performed daily

For further details or informal visits, contact:

Name: Deb Price
Job Title: Associate Director
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]

Divisional Director for Medicine: Helen Jenkinson
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]