Site Medical Director

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Foundation Trust in the UK is seeking a Site Medical Director to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient safety and governance. The role involves overseeing medical appraisals, working with infection control teams, and providing leadership to medical staff. A full GMC registration and leadership experience are essential. This role includes a competitive benefits package and significant opportunity for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Regular pay awards

27 days annual leave increasing to 33 days

Access to a Pension Scheme

Extensive training development opportunities

Occupational Health Service support

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in a clinical director or clinical lead role.
• Dynamic personality with the ability to build extensive stakeholder relationships.
• Exceptional communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Embed a patient safety culture throughout the Trust.
• Oversee the implementation of governance arrangements for patient safety.
• Lead on the delivery of consultants' annual appraisal cycle.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Financial Management

Negotiation

Education

Full Registration with the GMC

Master's level qualification or equivalent

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and learning from incidents

• Work closely with the Executive Teams to embed a patient safety culture throughout the Trust's and associated sites.
• Disseminate best practice and promote governance including clinical audit, research, service improvement and learning from safety incidents.
• Engage in activity to develop and implement the quality improvement strategy to ensure consistent delivery of healthcare that is safe, effective, person‑centred, timely, efficient and equitable.
• Put in place the governance arrangements that will enable us to deliver our patient services in the safest possible way.
• Promote a culture committed to learning from complaints, incidents, audit, research, and development.
• Regularly review quality and safety, governance and risk, operational performance, and other statutory and mandatory key performance indicators at site level to ensure all areas are performing and that risk is escalated through approved pathways to the Joint Executive team and Board.
• Contribute to the development of the Combined Quality Strategy.

Appraisal and Revalidation

• Hold delegated responsibility from the Chief Medical Officer for ensuring that all doctors with a prescribed connection to the organisation undertake a high quality and consistent form of annual medical appraisal to support the process of medical revalidation.
• Responsible for ensuring that all appraisers have completed accredited training and receive updates as required.
• Lead on the Trust's delivery of the consultants' annual appraisal cycle, in line with the Trust medical appraisal policy and GMC revalidation requirements.
• With the support of the Responsible Officer and the Workforce team, lead on resolving issues relating to the performance and misconduct of medical staff for the site and, when necessary, the implementation of Maintaining High Professional Standards.

Infection Control

• Work with the Chief Nurse (DiPC), to oversee the control of infection prevention and control policies and their implementation together with the Infection Prevention & Control teams.
• Challenge inappropriate clinical hygiene practice as well as antibiotic prescribing decisions working with the infection control teams.
• Assess the impact of all existing and new policies and plans on infection and make recommendations for change.

Trust-wide Job Planning

• Oversee the consistent application of job planning principles working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, Divisional Directors and Divisional Medical Directors and Medical Staffing Teams.
• Support Divisional Medical Directors in the job planning process and escalate inconsistencies to the Chief Medical Officer as required.

Leadership and People Management

• Support and act on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer in handling concerns about the performance or behaviour of doctors and dentists.
• Actively promote compassionate, inclusive leadership together with the Trust's values, and culture of the organisation, through appropriate personal behaviour and development. Implement relevant policies.
• Take such action as may be necessary in disciplinary matters in accordance with procedures laid down by the Trust.
• Participate where necessary in the handling of performance management processes.
• Take responsibility for your own performance and take action to address identified personal development areas
• Provide visible and effective leadership for all medical staff on site, promoting continuous professional development, medical education and appraisal and monitoring individual performance.
• Use feedback, (e.g. from the national staff survey, GMC survey, etc), to improve and enhance the experience of medical staff at all grades across the organisation, ensuring they are engaged and empowered.
• Promote a culture of speaking up where concerns are addressed, action is taken to manage concerns, poor behaviour in any form is challenged and doctors believe their voices are heard in decision making
• Develop the medical staff cohort to consistently demonstrate the Trust values
• Promote the Trust's policies on 'equality of opportunity', and the promotion of 'good relations' through his/her own actions, and ensure that these policies are adhered to by staff for whom he/she has responsibility.
• Act as the representative of the Chief Medical Officer on Trust Consultant appointments committees.
• Be the named Acting Chief Medical Officer when the Chief Medical Officer is on leave, undertaking all essential internal and external activity including attendance at Board level committees, if required.

Financial Management

• As part of the senior leadership Team deliver a balanced budget each year, including agreed cost improvement plans for the budget(s) managed and supporting those within the service areas.
• Actively work with Divisional Medical Directors to develop Trust Efficiency schemes, encouraging them to work with Divisional Management teams to lead and take forward transformation/efficiency schemes

General

• Participate in the Trust appraisal process and work towards meeting identified development needs.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Full Registration (GP/Specialist registration) with the GMC.
• Hold current Licence to Practice.
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development, including accredited leadership development.
• Unblemished professional conduct record

Desirable criteria

• Member/ Fellow of appropriate Medical Royal College
• Educated to Masters level or equivalent specialist medical qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of practice as a consultant in chosen specialty at a high level to allow high level of credibility to include demonstrable understanding of all aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate education, and delivery of research.
• Highly effective leadership skills gained through experience in a Clinical Director/Clinical Lead role.
• Dynamic personality with the ability to build extensive and trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks.
• Exceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness, with excellent written, verbal and presentational communication skills.
• The ability to build organisation capabilities, to articulate and gain commitment to a clear strategic vision, giving focus, clarity and direction to translate into successful outcomes.
• The capacity to think and influence strategically and have the ability to analyse and solve highly complex problems, finding new solutions and breaking new ground where required
• The ability to encourage creativity in others and be open to innovative thinking.
• A proven ability to set ambitious targets and monitor against targets to secure organisational success.
• Possess the insight to be able to anticipate problems, to understand the driving forces behind problems, or potential problems and being able to identify and use the levers to achieve change.
• Have the political acumen and an ability to understand the culture, climate, and politics within the Trust; be attuned to the sensitivities of different stakeholder interests within the Trust, and work sensitively to overcome the differing positions and interests of these.

Desirable criteria

• High quality business and service planning skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Financial Management: including budget management, profitability analysis and forecasting. People Management: including staff management, staff development and team building.
• Understanding of the provision and delivery of health care services and of Government's strategy and plans for modernising health care.
• Thorough knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the National Health Service and its inter-relationship with other agencies.
• Understanding of the implications for medical staff of the modernisation agenda.
• Extensive knowledge of clinical audit, Research and Development.
• Thorough understanding of the economic, financial and organisational complexities of the NHS including current national policies and change programmes

Skills

Essential criteria

• Commitment to principles and practices of compassionate leadership.
• Commitment to self-development with ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of key policies and themes in the healthcare provision in the UK.
• An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance.
• Commitment to promote equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development.

New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute. These terms and conditions are not applicable for Non-Executive positions.

Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on‑site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.

At Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we welcome applications from all candidates.

At the Trust we always adhere to the UK Visas and Immigration rules pertaining to right to work; candidates who do not hold UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) citizenship are required to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to be eligible to apply for either a Health and Care visa or a Skilled Worker visa which allows them to work in the UK, unless they have eligibility to work in the UK via another route.

To avoid disappointment, candidates wishing to apply for a role at the Trust who do not hold UK or Republic of Ireland citizenship and who would require a CoS from an employer, should carry out a self‑assessment process to identify the likelihood of obtaining CoS by visiting Work in the UK.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications:

When one has decided to use the help of AI in writing job application, please note that it is essential to personalise the information, especially in the supporting statement segment of application. AI-generated content does not fully grasp the context and requirements of the job one applies to thus producing inaccurate and misleading statements. Full reliance on AI to write application can hinder chances of success at early stage of selection process as it cannot solely showcase how one's knowledge, experience and skills meet job requirements. It is important that to give personal touch to supporting statement and strike the balance to avoid it sounding robotic.

We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored and if applicants have used it then they are required to declare this.

Ordinarily, we accept online job applications only, however, as a part of reasonable adjustments, to meet different needs and requirements and ensure that applicants are able to give their best throughout the recruitment process, consideration will be given to a paper-based application, if requested. Please enquire with [e-mail] or pick up an application template in person from our office.

Further details regarding the post can be obtained by contacting a Recruiting Manager as per contact details below.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Site Medical Director JD & PS (PDF, 296.6KB)