Employer: Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Tickhill Road site
Town: Doncaster
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/11/2024 23:59
Care Group Medical Director
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
In Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH), we are a little bit different and working hard to change to be a community powered NHS organisation. Over the next five years, we will use that difference to significantly transform outcomes and tackle health inequalities. This is why your skills could be just what we need, and why this might be the moment for you to join us; it's exciting work. There is a real chance for you to help shape what we do and for you to achieve this with us.
We are keen to recruit an inclusive, compassionate, and collaborative Medical Director. You will join a committed and motivated senior leadership team led by the Care Group Director. Joined by your clinical colleagues (Director of Psychological Professions and Nurse Director), you will create a positive safety culture along with a robust quality governance framework and actively lead and manage our medical workforce across the care group. We have a strong research culture which we would want senior colleagues to continue to foster.
Main duties of the job
1. Leadership & Management - Establish yourself as a supportive and responsive managerial leader for the medical staff in the Care Group, to maintain high quality medical standards.
2. Building pathways and place relationships – within and across Care Groups; with partners such as the local authority and Primary Care and within your Place Communities.
3. Delivering Safe and Therapeutic Care – Ensure clinical standards are maintained; support the clinical governance within the Care group and it remains effective; conduct complex investigations and policy development.
4. Recruitment and Retention – to lead on recruitment and retention in relation to medical colleagues within the Care Group.
5. Education and Research - Work with The Director of Medical Education and The Director of Undergraduate Medical Education to ensure that all trainees and medical students placed with the trust have a positive and rewarding experience during their time in the Care Group.
6. Clinical Effectiveness & Service improvement – foster and enhance culture of learning across the care group and support delivery in relation to clinical effectiveness process and service improvement.
7. Patient Safety and Patient Experience – work with the SLT Clinical Directors to actively promote and role model a healthy patient safety culture.
Working for our organisation
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employs around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description/person specification for all details of this role including main duties.
This role does not require you to have a specific clinical background, as a leadership and management post it allows those skills to be transferable regardless of your clinical experience. The Medical Director has 4 PAs with it; but within the Care Group and wider organisation, we have a range of clinical opportunities for the clinical PA’s.
Minimum Requirements
* Current GMC Registration with a license to practise
* Postgraduate qualification in leadership and management
* GMC registration without any restrictions
* s12 approval and Approved Clinician status WRT the Mental Health Act (1983)
Experience
* Suitably qualified medical practitioner
* Experience of developing and delivering presentations and/or training to large groups
* Broad and positive clinical experience
* Management/leadership experience in the NHS
* Experience of people management including doctors
* Detailed knowledge of the current issues within the NHS
* Experience of leading on research projects and audit
* Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
Knowledge
* Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983) and the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
* Understanding of clinical risk management and the ability to put this into practice as an expert advisor within risk management
* An understanding of the regulatory framework of the GMC
* Working knowledge and experience in the use of the quality improvement tool in practice
* An understanding of medical revalidation and appraisal processes
* An understanding of financial management systems and budgets within the NHS
* An understanding of regional and national structures and regulators (ICBs, CQC, NHS England, NHS Providers)
Skills and Abilities
* Demonstrates an ability to manage complex situations
* Demonstrable ability to lead people in difficult situations and manage disagreement
* Ability to translate policy into practice
* Ability to work within clear performance targets and indicators
* Ability to negotiate, shape and influence local service development involving partner agencies and key stakeholders
* Ability to work with minimal supervision
* Ability to lead, motivate and empower others to achieve objectives and aspirations
* Ability to assimilate information, analyse data, triangulate themes, and present to others
* Experience of service redesign
* Financial and budgetary management experience
* Expertise in undertaking investigations with the ability to determine outcomes and produce recommendations
Other
* Will be required to travel on a regular basis across the trust-wide footprint and to organisations external to the trust
* Access to transport and the ability to travel within the required geographical area
We welcome applications from individuals who may require sponsorship [if eligible] under the skilled worker or health & care visa route.
You can make a self-assessment of potential eligibility for sponsorship using the criteria for the skilled worker visa under the UK’s points-based immigration system here: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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