Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Chief Medical Officer.

This pivotal role requires a leader with the expertise to help us plan and prepare for what our organisation needs to look like over the coming years and which services and pathways need improving.

Strengthening and delivering our Clinical Services Strategy will be the vehicle used to deliver these improvements in conjunction with our ambitious 5-year Trust strategy 'Improving Lives' which sets out how we plan to do just that alongside our partners and support our people to bring that reality to life.The Chief Medical Officer will be an integral part of this exciting change.

This is a unique opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will have the support of a committed executive team, a culture that values inclusivity and progressiveness, and the opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare for our patients and communities.

Join us in making a difference--apply now and contribute to our mission of delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.

Main duties of the job

The overriding purpose of the role is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement. We want to make Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the best place in the NHS to work and receive care.

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is a full member of the Board of Directors and will provide advice to the Chief Executive and Board of Directors on all professional medical issues and lead clinical collaboration within the organisation and across Trust boundaries, in partnership with other clinicians.

The CMO is expected to contribute to the development and delivery of the wider organisational agenda, as well as taking a lead role in advising on and developing medical/clinical aspects of the Trust strategic plans, clinical service strategy, service reconfiguration, clinical performance and conduct, clinical governance, risk management, medical education, consultant appraisal, revalidation and job planning.

In conjunction with the Chief Nurse, the CMO will provide strategic leadership in shaping the clinical culture and implementing clinical governance and patient safety arrangements across the Trust.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 peopleacross Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for anywhere in the Midlands for six years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHSrun hospital in the East Midlands.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job pack and person specification document.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• In-depth understanding of the complexity in the provision of healthcare
• Knowledge of the UK healthcare sector including the implications of Foundation Trust status on governance and service provision
• Substantial experience at medical consultant level, with senior experience in a large DGH or Teaching Hospital environment
• Proven experience in a Medical Leadership role and a track record of managing people, services, change and improvement
• Outstanding reputation as a clinician and clinical leader with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of clinical services
• Experience in building organisational capabilities including establishing a clear strategic vision and direction and translation into successful outcomes
• Experience of managing governance agendas, including clinical governance and research governance
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal leadership development

Desirable

• Experience of managing postgraduate training
• Experience of leading a large complex organisation through significant change

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Graduate
• Full registration with GMC with specialist registration
• Postgraduate Medical Qualification ideally in Medical Leadership and Management
• Evidence of sustained personal professional development

Desirable

• Financial awareness and business acumen
• A proven ability to plan strategically

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience as a Deputy Medical Director in an acute NHS Trust
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to command credibility with colleagues.
• Success as a team player and the ability to work with staff at all levels.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Innovation and vision, including an ability to build organisational capabilities, establishing a clear strategic vision and direction and translating this into successful outcomes.
• Intellectual flexibility, including the ability to understand both operational detail and wider longer strategic visions, and to articulate these to others
• Political awareness, with the ability to understand the wider interest groups and stakeholders within the Trust, and to work sensitively to overcome their differing positions and interests.
• Ability to take on the responsibilities of the responsible officer as outlined by the GMC.
• Drive for improvement with the proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against
• Financial awareness and business acumen
• A proven ability to plan strategically

Desirable

• Exposure and experience at Trust Board level

Contractual requirements

Essential

• Able to travel between sites
• Member of gold on-call rota
• Must undertake the fit and proper person requirements of the role

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

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