Chief Registrar

Chief Registrar ST4+level

Medway NHS Trust

The closing date is 07 April 2023

Interview 14 April 2023

We are recruiting for aChief Registrarwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

The chief registrar role is a leadership role for senior specialty trainees. The role provides 50% protected time to develop and implement local initiatives focusing on, for example, clinical engagement, improving culture, education and training, workforce, and sustainability

Chief registrars benefit from access to a bespoke development programme provided by the RCP, which runs from September 2023 to June 2024 and comprises five 2-day modules that chief registrars are expected to attend.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job responsibilities

The chief registrar job description is broad in scope in order to allow chief registrars and recruiting organisations to have autonomy and flexibility over the work the chief registrar undertakes. Chief registrars should focus on addressing key local challenges and priorities, which may include some or all of the following:

- Providing a bridge between senior clinical leaders, managers and thewider trainee workforce to improve communication, engagement and morale.
- Service improvement, for example redesigning pathways, implementing new technology and establishing new servicesto improve flow and outcomes for patients.
- Improving thequality of clinical and non-clinical education and training activities,and supporting/mentoring other trainees to engage in quality improvement.
- Involvement in workforce planning andimproving the deployment of trainees to meet service needsand improve morale.
- Improvingefficiency and reducing waste.
- Working across teams and boundaries toengage stakeholders in quality improvementand influence change.

Involvement in and exposure to senior management and organisational decision-making.

The chief registrar should attend departmental and divisional management meetings to gain an understanding of management and the wider social, political and economic influences on healthcare delivery.

Where possible and appropriate, they should attend Board meetings. They should lead any sessions on service development, improvement and transformation for which they have direct responsibility.