Executive Medical Director

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a Medical Director to join their Executive Team. This pivotal role involves providing strategic leadership and operational advice, ensuring the delivery of high-quality healthcare services. The Medical Director will work closely with the Chief Executive and Board of Directors, influencing key decisions that affect patient safety and clinical effectiveness. This is a unique opportunity to lead and innovate within a respected Trust, contributing to the development of future healthcare strategies while making a significant impact on community health outcomes. If you are a dynamic leader with a passion for healthcare excellence, this role is tailored for you.

Qualifications

• Medically qualified with NHS consultant status or equivalent.
• Significant experience in senior medical leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to deliver the strategic ambitions of the Trust.
• Advise the Board on professional matters relating to the medical workforce.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Clinical Governance

Change Management

Communication Skills

Education

Medical Qualification

NHS Consultant Status or Equivalent

Continuous Professional Development

Job description

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Main area: Executive Committee Grade Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM Contract Permanent: VSM Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Director on call rota) Job ref 435-MQ04-25

Site: Trust HQ, Royal Blackburn Hospital Town Blackburn Salary: £100,000 - £200,000 per annum Salary period: Yearly Closing: 14/02/2025 23:59

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

Job overview

The Medical Director will be a member of the Executive Director Team working directly with the Chief Executive, providing leadership to the organisation. Each member of the Executive Team holds a broad portfolio of responsibilities with the expectation that they will work together as a cohesive team on a range of initiatives in support of the corporate management of the Trust, in keeping with the Trust's Constitution.

Main duties of the job

1. The Medical Director will work with, and as part of, the Board of Directors to provide leadership to deliver the strategic ambitions of the Trust.
2. The Medical Director will provide strategic and operational advice and assurance to the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors.
3. The Medical Director will work with, and as part of the Executive of the Board of Directors to provide strategic leadership in delivering the strategic ambitions of the Trust as an anchor organisation in healthcare for communities within EL and BWD.
4. The Medical Director advises the Board of Directors on all professional matters relating to the medical and dental workforce. Specifically, they will inform, advise and support the Board of Directors to understand how strategic decisions might affect patient safety and the effectiveness of clinical care.
5. The Medical Director maintains strategic working relationships with system partners across LSC to facilitate delivery of the LSC Integrated Care Strategy.

Working for our organisation

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was established in 2003 and is a leading provider of integrated healthcare services across East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen, delivering a wide range of health services to a population of 566,000 people.

We employ over 10,000 people, some of whom are award-winning and internationally renowned for their work and achievements. We treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. Our high-quality healthcare services are offered across five hospital sites and various community sites.

As a teaching organisation, we work closely with our major academic partners, the University of Central Lancashire, Lancaster University and Blackburn College. Together we nurture a workforce of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.

The Trust is part of a Lancashire and South Cumbria system collaborative of five acute Trusts which, working collaboratively with the ICB, have developed an Acute services transformation Blueprint. That Blueprint will begin to be delivered from 2025 with the ICB and provider trusts working in partnership. This role will have a key role in facilitating delivery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Effective structures in place to deliver core functions within their individual executive portfolio.
2. The Medical Director is responsible for the continued design, implementation and maintenance of the clinical and quality strategy and Trust approach to improvement and work towards achieving our Organisational Strategy.
3. To support the Trust Programme of financial recovery, providing a comprehensive financial and performance management service across the Division and at Trust level.
4. To secure improvement in clinical services, affordability and effectiveness of our workforce resources and particularly to drive and support improvements in reducing vacancies, best value from rotas and reducing temporary/agency usage.
5. To collaborate with Trust colleagues to ensure the identification and development of further schemes to deliver improvements in financial sustainability and mitigation of risks in delivering existing schemes.
6. To contribute to the continued development and implementation of the internal clinical service redesign and improvement, ensuring the Trust remains at the forefront of service delivery and clinical service innovation in line with any potential changes to the external environment.
7. To provide professional advice to the Board of Directors on medical and dental workforce matters, patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
8. To work collaboratively with the Chief Nurse to ensure clinical quality and patient safety is maintained or improved by clinical service transformations and that strong systems of clinical governance are in place to assure patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
9. To provide professional leadership in the redesign of pathways of care integrated across the Trust ensuring clinical delivery of the Organizational Strategy, with appropriate recognition of clinical interdependencies.
10. To provide highly visible leadership to medical and dental staff across all Trust sites, engaging and empowering them to achieve excellence in the delivery of patient care.
11. To inform, engage and involve staff in the transformation activities necessary to secure improvement and change, and deliver the benefits of Electronic Patient Record.
12. Provide medical leadership which enables medical staff to actively contribute to the effective development and delivery of high-quality healthcare services within agreed resources.
13. Promote high standards of professional conduct and performance and ensure that there is a supportive environment to assist doctors to meet expected standards.
14. Work with Executive Lead for Health Inequalities, working with the Public Health Consultant team to help address health inequalities in the region.
15. Medical Executive input to the Trust Informatics Strategy, working closely with the Chief Digital and Information Officer, and leading on the clinical contribution to EPR deployment and stabilization.
16. Caldicott Guardian for the Trust: ensuring the confidentiality of patient and service-user information and enabling appropriate information-sharing.
17. Board of Director responsibility for the effective delivery of a strong Research and Innovation service, with appropriate clinical leadership and management infrastructure; integrated into the Trust's overall management structure.
18. Work closely with the Universities, NIHRI and other stakeholders to ensure that there is a robust and effective research governance system subject to regular audit; thus, providing assurance to the Board that all research is of high quality and conducted to the highest safety and ethical standards.

Person specification

Qualifications and Personal Development

• Medically qualified
• NHS consultant status or equivalent
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
• Full GMC registration without restrictions

Experience

• Significant and highly successful track record in a senior medical leadership role within a large, complex organisation
• Comprehensive understanding of clinical issues within the modern NHS
• Proven experience of supporting and delivering effective change in processes in relation to clinical services
• Able to identify, understand and articulate strategic medical issues
• Understanding of corporate and clinical governance responsibilities
• Track record of modernising medical practice and service change with clinical and management colleagues
• Understanding of the regional and local healthcare landscape
• Understanding of NHS drivers and implications of our services

Leadership and Management Style

• Dynamic, open, willingness to participate and supportive leadership and management style
• Ability to command respect and support of senior clinicians
• Ability to develop excellent relationships both internally and externally within the NHS and beyond
• Team builder committed to organisational aims and objectives
• Ability to influence and drive the decision-making process within a performance management framework
• Ability to lead and support the medical body

Special Aptitudes and Competences

• Outstanding personal impact, drive, enthusiasm, commitment and presence
• Innovator with strategic vision and planning abilities
• Initiator with excellent communication, analytical and presentation skills

Dear Potential Applicant,

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust:

• Please note that the salary advertised is for full-time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application will be short-listed.

Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)

If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.

The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.

The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.

This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post.

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The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.

We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.

We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible. By telephone [phone] or email [e-mail] or write to Employment Services, Parkview Offices, Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Liam Reeve Job title: Head of Medical Staffing Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07495702602 Additional information

For information for the Chief Executive, please contact Martin Hodgson on [e-mail].