Job summary
Divisional Medical Director - Unplanned Care DivisionAn exciting senior medical leadership opportunity is available in our organisation to oversee and deliver high impact, patient centred, resilient and innovative medical specialty services. You will be working with motivated and committed multi-professional teams and shape and will be able to influence system wide strategy for care for patients with long term conditions.As the Divisional Medical Director, you will be jointly responsible and accountable, with the Divisional Operations Director, Divisional Director of Nursing & Quality, and the Head of Therapies (the Divisional Leadership Team) for the delivery of high quality and high performing services, within budget for an agreed level of activity at an expected level of service, efficiency, and clinical quality.
The divisional leadership team are required to ensure all the activities undertaken within the Division are subject to best practice governance arrangements and meet national and local policies and guidance.
The divisional leadership team will provide leadership and direction for the division, ensuring the fulfilment of the Trust's objectives, patient safety and the roll-out, adoption and use of the Trust's improvement methodology, East and North Herts Production System (based on the Virginia Mason Production System).
Main duties of the job
As part of your role, you will directly manage the Care Group Heads of Clinical Service, who in turn, will manage the Clinical Directors in their Care Group, who manage consultants in their specialties.
The Lead Divisional Director role is an 18-month tenure, rotating between Divisional Leadership team members. The person holding the Lead Divisional Director role will have overall responsibility for the day to day line management of colleagues in the divisional leadership team and is line managed by the Chief Operating Officer.
The divisional leadership team remain jointly responsible for the effective implementation of both national and local strategies along with the achievement of national standards and targets.
The Unplanned Care Division includes 11 specialties with many organised as secondary and tertiary services. The budget is £155m (pay & non pay) and the number of consultants funded in establishment is 132 WTE.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care
- Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
- Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
- Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
- Active participation in continuing medical education
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
- Primary Medical Degree.
- Hold a substantive consultant contract
- Qualification in medical leadership, or to be in process of achieving this
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of leadership as a clinical director, assistant/deputy clinical director or directorate / care group clinical lead.
- Demonstrable experience of effective budgetary management and control
- Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
- Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
- Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
Skills
Essential
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
- Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
East and North Herts NHS Trust
Address
Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
SG1 4AB