Medical Director

2 weeks ago


Derby Derbyshire, United Kingdom University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Full time
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
  • Is responsible to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and the Chief Executive of the Trust and, contributes to the statutory and mandatory duties of the Trust, helping to set and implement the strategic direction and contributing to improving the quality of service provided and the financial wellbeing of the Trust.
  • Will be responsible to the CMO for delivering high quality care within the resources available, working with divisional and corporate leads.
  • Will support the CMO in the development of a framework to ensure a strong infrastructure of medical leadership within the Trust, including the development of a competency framework to drive succession planning.
  • Is responsible for continuous improvement and innovation. This will involve actively assessing national and regional initiatives, new technological developments, and research to ensure safe, modern and effective care is delivered.
  • Will provide clinical leadership to Trust and wider health community for quality improvement projects.
  • Will co-ordinate the implementation of agreed patient safety priority projects and monitoring systems, as endorsed by the Executive Directors, within the wider clinical and social care governance arrangements of the Trust.
Main duties of the job
  • Will review and monitor the impact of patient safety initiatives.
  • Will be assigned to leadership and development to either the Derbyshire and Staffordshire ICS, to support the Chief Medical Officer. The Deputy MD will represent UHDB at system meetings and work with Executive and Deputy colleagues accordingly.
  • Will manage several strategic and cross-divisional workstreams on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer. Each Deputy Medical Director will be aligned to the site deputy triumvirate at RDH and QHB and work closely with Deputy Chief Nursing and Deputy Chief Operating Officer colleagues regarding site-specific issues.
  • Will assume the role of the Deputy Responsible Officer for Medical and Dental employees at UHDB following a period of induction and education and be part of the team for managing professional conduct of Medical and dental employees in line with national and local guidance.
  • Will provide medical advice on governance issues, ensuring effective local systems and policies and procedures are in place for governance in relation to:
    • Clinical risk management
    • Critical incident reporting, investigations, and monitoring
    • Professional performance
    • Research and development

Leadership and management development are core to the role and will be supported by the Chief Medical Officer to apply for external courses.

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

  • Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
  • On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
  • Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

  • We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
  • We are the 4 th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
  • An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
  • Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
  • Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
  • We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
  • We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
  • UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Job responsibilities
  • Will review and monitor the impact of patient safety initiatives.
  • Will be assigned to leadership and development to either the Derbyshire and Staffordshire ICS, to support the Chief Medical Officer. The Deputy MD will represent UHDB at system meetings and work with Executive and Deputy colleagues accordingly.
  • Will manage several strategic and cross-divisional workstreams on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer. Each Deputy Medical Director will be aligned to the site deputy triumvirate at RDH and QHB and work closely with Deputy Chief Nursing and Deputy Chief Operating Officer colleagues regarding site-specific issues.
  • Will assume the role of the Deputy Responsible Officer for Medical and Dental employees at UHDB following a period of induction and education and be part of the team for managing professional conduct of Medical and dental employees in line with national and local guidance.
  • Will provide medical advice on governance issues, ensuring effective local systems and policies and procedures are in place for governance in relation to:
    • Clinical risk management
    • Critical incident reporting, investigations, and monitoring
    • Professional performance
    • Research and development

Leadership and management development are core to the role and will be supported by the Chief Medical Officer to apply for external courses.

Person Specification Qualifications
  • Registration within the GMC Specialist Register
Experience and Knowledge
  • Significant experience at a very senior level.
  • Understanding and appreciation of diversity.
  • Key issues and complexity and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally
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.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

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