Job summary
We are seeking to appoint a Divisional Medical Director for Surgery, Anaesthetics and Cancer. The post holder will be operationally accountable to the Chief Operating Officer and professionally accountable to the Medical Director. The post holder will be a member of the Medical Leadership Team. The Surgical, Anaesthetics and Cancer Divisional Medical Director is responsible for the strategic clinical leadership of the Division, for driving continuous service improvement and ensuring the effective delivery and productivity of clinical services. The post holder will be professionally and managerially responsible for all other medical staff within the Division and overall lead for appraisal, job planning and professional development for the Division. The post holder will ensure that clinical regulatory targets and compliance for clinical quality, risk and governance standards are met.
Main duties of the job
Duties will include:
- Provide overall leadership and management to all of the Division's medical staff including doctors in training within the Division.
- Ensure that the Trust's strategic vision, objectives, policies, values and behaviours are embedded and upheld by all medical staff within the Division.
- Provide strategic advice and input to the Divisional Director and Divisional Board to support the development of robust Divisional Plans.
- Drive service and quality improvement & innovation, and the application of best practice pathways.
- Ensure effective medical input is designed into and consistently delivered to end-to-end pathways.
- To encourage and support innovative practice change in all aspects of the Trust's operations.
- To actively support the development of an empowered culture which supports operational implementation of the Trust's strategy and vision.
- Promote collaboration, openness, devolution and accountability, involvement and equality of opportunity at all levels.
- To promote, through personal conduct, the Trust's values and leadership behaviours, thereby helping to develop and enhance the necessary cultural change.
About us
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) - all beautiful and unique.
Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes' drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.
We also provide services such as consultant-led outreach clinics at the Wrekin Community Clinic, Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen and the Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch Community Hospitals.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Divisional Medical Director (Divisional MD) will work with the Divisional Director of Operations (DDO) and Divisional Director of Nursing/Midwifery, AHPs and Quality (DDNM) in a triumvirate management structure. The Divisional MD is expected to take accountability for the Division, working jointly with the triumvirate including the delivery of agreed local and national quality and performance standards within budgetary and resource availability. The successful candidates will also assist the Director Divisional Director of Operations in supporting the Trusts role as a key player in providing high quality health services in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid-Wales and to help guide the Trust in maximising its commercial opportunities and strengthening its collaborative partnership working.
The Divisional MD will also have responsibility for the strategic development of clinical services within the division and with colleagues, the delivery of that strategy. The Divisional MD will ensure that services adopt a continuous improvement approach. Together with the other members of the triumvirate, the Divisional MD will provide clinical leadership to the Division, ensuring that all clinical staff are aligned with the Division's and Trust's objectives and are working in effective multi-disciplinary/multi-professional teams.
The Divisional MD will work with the DDNM to ensure that robust systems for clinical governance are implemented and maintained for all services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Consultant with current licence to practice in good standing with the GMC or Senior Clinical Professional in good standing with their Professional Body
- Management qualification or equivalent postgraduate experience or development
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS, preferably in an acute Trust
- Experience of managing clinical services
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and risk
- Experience of developing and implementing strategies
- Financial and budgetary management
- Have a good knowledge of quality assurance
- Sound understanding of current NHS strategy and policy
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent leadership skills
- Patient focussed at all times
- Be articulate and skilled in communicating ideas to others
- Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to manage conflict and make difficult objective decisions
- Problem solving skills: ability to analyse problems in a logical and structured way, developing innovative solutions to achieve sustainable outcomes
- Be open, tactful, diplomatic and at ease with all kinds of people
- Demonstrate an ability to hold others to account, including clinical colleagues
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
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
Mytton Oak Road
Shrewsbury
SY3 8XQ