At South London and Maudsley, we believe in providing excellent care which is delivered with pride and compassion. Everything we do is to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.

The Chief Medical Officer at South London and Maudsley is an Executive Director and a voting member of the Board. The purpose of the job is to provide strategic clinical leadership across the Trust and act as Responsible Officer for the organisation. The post holder will be required to work closely and collaboratively with other Executives

The CMO is a key contributor to overall strategy and decision-making within the Trust. Providing exceptional professional leadership for medical colleagues across the trust, the Chief Medical Officer will take the lead for education, training and development and revalidation of medical colleagues and provide effective advice on medical issues and quality and clinical governance matters. This role will also take lead responsibility for delivering the Trust's ambitions in addressing population health and working towards health equity through the tackling of health inequalities. The role will hold responsibility for research and development across the Trust.

All Directors are expected to work as part of a cohesive team, contributing to the Trust's Strategic Leadership and direction and, when necessary, take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility.

Main duties of the job

As the CMO, you will play a vital role in the Trust, working closely with our health and care partners in South London Integrated Care Systems and the South London Partnership (SLP).You can be sure that you will play a key role in helping to shape the future of our organisation. Together, we will develop world-class service solutions to ensure the delivery of outstanding care to our service users. Your leadership will be compassionate, inclusive, and focused on empowering our staff to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care.You will need to quickly grasp the responsibilities of the role and be highly motivated and action oriented. Your ability to inspire and motivate teams will be essential to deliver and improve our services for staff and service users in transforming our vision into action. You will have an exceptional track record of achieving results through partnerships with key stakeholders at local and regional levels. You will have extensive experience in leading delivery of services and driving strategy and change in complex environments, working with senior leadership teams and at the board level. You will have the ability to establish strong working relationships across varied network of stakeholders to tackle some of the most challenging pressures on mental health post-pandemic and to inspire teams to deliver and improve the services we provide.

About us

The role of CMO is a pivotal one for the Trust. This is a career defining opportunity working in one of the largest and best mental health organisations in the country.You will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership across the organisation, empowering staff to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality care, putting the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do.You will be driven, goal and action oriented, have a talent for inspiring and motivating teams, and a track-record of delivery achieved through partnership with key stakeholders.Bringing energy, insight and a passion for inclusion and reducing inequalities, you will be a positive catalyst for change and with the support of the board and executive colleagues to lead on delivering our ambition of outstanding mental health care as outlined within our five-year Trust strategy Aiming High Changing Lives.You will have had significant experience of driving strategy and change in a large scale, complex environment, working with senior leadership teams and at board level, with the ability to establish strong working relationships across systems. You will inspire your teams to deliver and improve the services we offer helping to transform our vison into action. You will work with our health and care partners across two South London Integrated Care Systems as well as within the South London Partnership (SLP), to develop innovative and world-class service solutions.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Contribute to the overall corporate management of the Trust with specific responsibility for medical advice in relation to operational issues.In consultation with the Chief Executive, the Board and other local partners contribute to the development and implementation of Trust Strategy.Lead on medical input in the development of strategies and provide input and advice on any relevant initiatives that require a medical perspective for example the clinical strategy, clinical effectiveness, clinical informatics, safety & learning systems, clinical sustainability.Participate in the Medical On-Call Rota.To act as an ambassador for the Trust and contribute to the wider health and organisational agenda across London and nationally as appropriate.Share corporate responsibility to promote the Trust within the wider community, so developing sustainable partnerships within the multi-agency health and social care community.Supervise the Trusts Caldicott Guardian.To carry out your duties in a way that supports the Trusts values this responsibility includes your actions in relation to service users, carers, work colleagues, people in other organisations and members of the public.To be responsible for ensuring the Trust develops a culture that promotes equality and values diversity this responsibility includes services and functions the Trust provides and commissions, service users, carers, the workforce, partners in other organisations and members of the public.Attend all mandatory training relevant for the post and Identify own training needs, in consultation with line manager and attend relevant courses/study days to enhance personal development.Attend and actively participate in an annual personal development review and undertake line management responsibilities for appropriate colleagues.Input into the strategic leadership for the Mental Health Law team in conjunction with the Director of Therapies, ensuring compliance with the Mental Health Code of Practice.Provide visible leadership for medical staff on both professional and managerial issues.Provide leadership on issues relating to the optimum management of clinical risk for the organisation.Lead on the development of implementation of medical workforce plans and attend the Joint Local Negotiating Committee as a senior leader within the psychiatric medical workforce.In line with national requirements ensure arrangements are in place for appraisal, job planning, continuing professional development, re-licensing and revalidation of doctors employed by the Trust.Appraise Consultants and Doctors personally as required.Ensure a robust and transparent approach to job planning which takes into consideration the needs of the services.Lead on resolving issues relating to poor performance of medical staff and the implementation of disciplinary procedures as necessary.Promote an organisational culture committed to learning from complaints, incidents, audit, research and development.Provide leadership for the Director of Pharmacy and ensure that this service and also the Pathology and Phlebotomy services deliver their operational and strategic objectives.Ensure a robust approach to the development and education and training programmes for students and doctors, linking closely with NHS England and NHS London.Ensure that medical colleagues undertake their duties in line with statutory and mandatory training requirements for doctors.Promote a culture of service user empowerment and valuing in design of services.Represent both medical opinion and the local service at external groups and events as appropriate.Support work to prepare for and respond to CQC inspection.Ensure medical colleagues participate in multi-professional clinical audit and the development of clinical effectiveness strategies.In partnership with executive colleagues, lead on relevant organisational transformation opportunities to achieve continued excellence, efficiency and improved patient and carer outcomes and experience, for exampleTo uphold all aspects of the Trust policies and procedures and legal requirements in relation to personal and professional conduct.Continue to lead and embed the development of Gender and Child & Adult Mental Health services across the South London Partnership.With Executive colleagues, lead the Trusts approach to understanding health and healthcare inequalities experienced by communities and to addressing population health through the tackling of health inequalities, working collectively and collaboratively towards health equity with demonstrable improvements in physical, mental health and wellbeing outcomes, across our local populations.With Executive colleagues, lead the Trusts strategic approach to reducing inequalities working alongside all partners within a place-based approach for tackling the broader determinants of health inequalities.Develop proactive approaches to engage with groups experiencing the most vulnerability/complex vulnerability and groups at higher risk of poor outcomes communities in partnership with other Executive Directors and broader partners.Provide strategic direction for the Trusts Research and Development ensuring that the strategy and operational management of the R & D department is led and deliveredEnhance and encourage research-based activity in the local services.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Qualified Medical professional.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Extensive experience gained as a consultant.
• Significant medical leadership experience at a strategic level in a mental health provider.
• Knowledge and experience of clinical governance.
• Experienced in supporting clinicians and teams to apply service improvement methods to enhance quality and productivity.
• Strong in building relationships at all levels with the ability to develop a collegiate approach across the organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Ability to think strategically, develop strategic plans and translate into objectives and action.

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Maudsley Hospital

London

SE5 8AZ

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