Site Medical Director

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Site Medical Director to oversee clinical operations and drive excellence in patient care. This role involves leadership within the NHS, focusing on patient safety and innovation. Ideal candidates will have proven consultant experience and leadership capabilities. Located in Stockport, this position offers a competitive salary between £109,725 and £145,478, dependent on experience.

Benefits

27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Salary sacrifice schemes

Cycle to work scheme

Salary finance options

Qualifications

• Full registration with the GMC and current Licence to Practice required.
• Proven track record at consultant level in chosen specialty.
• Experience in a Clinical Director/Clinical Lead role.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership to medical staff and ensure clinical care standards.
• Oversee appraisal and revalidation processes for medical staff.
• Lead on patient safety initiatives and governance frameworks.

Skills

Exceptional communicator

High quality business and service planning

Leadership skills

Political acumen

Education

Full Registration with the GMC

Educated to Masters level or equivalent

Job description

Location: Either Stockport NHS Foundation Trust or Tameside & Glossop IC FT (travel between sites required)Grade: Consultant (Full time, 10 PAs plus additional clinical work)

Are you an experienced clinical leader ready to shape the future of healthcare across Stockport and Tameside & Glossop?

We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Site Medical Director to join our senior leadership team, working collaboratively across two forward-thinking NHS Foundation Trusts. This is a unique opportunity to drive clinical excellence, champion patient safety, and foster innovation in a newly strengthened partnership.

Main duties of the job

As Site Medical Director, you will:

• Provide strong, visible leadership to medical and dental staff, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care.
• Be accountable for delivering the Trusts' clinical and medical engagement strategies, supporting both local and national objectives.
• Deputise for the Chief Medical Officer, offering expert advice and operational support across a range of strategic activities.
• Lead on patient safety, quality improvement, and learning from incidents, embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
• Oversee medical appraisal, revalidation, and professional development, ensuring compliance with GMC requirements.
• Champion compassionate and inclusive leadership, promoting equality, diversity, and a culture of speaking up.
• Support financial management and efficiency programmes, working closely with divisional teams.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

Job responsibilities

Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and learning from incidents

Work closely with the Executive Teams to embed a patient safety culture throughout the Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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.

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.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salaryIn addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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

Experience

• 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.
• High quality business and service planning skills

Knowledge

• 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

• 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.

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.

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearDependant on experience