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HCA UK at the Harborne Hospital – Birmingham, West Midlands
Clinical
Full time
Job Reference: 0044115
Head of Resident Doctors
At HCA UK, we have an exciting opportunity suitable for Senior SPR level Doctors or Junior Consultants to be a Head of Resident Doctors.
* Full Time: 40 Hours Per Week, Monday - Friday, 80% managerial time, 20% Clinical Time.
* Private medical healthcare insurance, contributory private pension, 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and 5 days paid study leave per annum.
* Plus; Fully Funded Masters Degree in Medical Leadership at City University in association with Bayes Business School.
* Location: HCA Healthcare UK Corporate Head office and The Harborne Hospital, Birmingham. There is also some opportunity to work from home remotely.
Summary of the Head of Resident Doctor position:
It is increasingly the consensus amongst the medical community that clinicians lead the best healthcare organisations. Their combination of clinical leadership and management skills are critical in providing safe, effective and high-quality care to patients.
HCA Healthcare, founded by Doctors in 1968, continues to believe in this ethos and has developed a career platform for SPR doctors or Consultants seeking an alternative career opportunity for those expressing a career in people management and service provisions.
As a trained doctor, you will be responsible for the direct line management of Resident Doctors and accountable for the services they provide at the Harborne Hospital.
This position is part of an established team of 5 other Heads of Resident Doctors responsible for different HCA sites, reporting centrally into the Corporate Head office, and working in partnership with onsite Senior Management Teams.
Responsibility/Accountability:
* This is a role aligned to the Harborne Hospital, their go-to Resident Doctor site lead, to ensure consistent, high-quality care is delivered, attending to business needs, in line with Consultant led private patient activity levels.
* You will work in partnership with our hospital's leadership teams, Chief Medical Officer, Lead Consultants, Chief Nursing Officer, and CEO, and those who work closely with Resident Doctors onsite.
* The role is to be accountable for people managing Resident Doctors, operationally and commercially responsible for a range of different service provisions, including General Surgery and Acute Medicine, and you will also have oversight of Critical Care.
* As a people manager, you will provide direct line management to circa 20-25 Resident Doctors from a range of diverse backgrounds and specialist areas of training, responsible for managing performance, attendance, conduct, training, cost, wellbeing, and their development, to ensure continuous, safe, and effective service, supporting each department.
* You will lead on recruiting new Resident Doctors for permanent and temporary vacancies, providing your new employees with a robust orientation and supervision programme. Utilising your Clinical and leadership skills to provide mentorship, support, and development, and HCA ways of working training.
* Working in partnership with our sites HR and Finance departments, you will oversee employment contract agreements, study agreements, and manage budgets resourcefully, including any workforce-related costs; salaries, education, or temporary workforce usage and spend.
* You will oversee rota management, ensuring staffing levels are responsive to changes in patient census and patient needs, flexing bank and agency use as necessary to maximise cost management.
* You will consistently strive for excellence, providing guidance and support on potential new ways of working, improving efficiencies, Quality Improvement Projects, or Increasing Patient Satisfaction opportunities, including leading audits, projects, or research.
* You will also be encouraged to work part clinical too, among your colleagues on ad-hoc shifts to maintain your clinical skills, and this will be to the level of a Resident Doctor (SPR).
Personal Specification:
* MBBS medical qualification. Fully registered with the GMC and current licence to practice in the UK.
* Doctors must be trained to a minimum of ST5 or equivalent.
* Essential requirement is experience directly line managing or supervising junior doctors, and being fully conversant with people management practices and policies, training, and compliance requirements.
* Experience of budget management, roster management, and making commercial decisions on workforce management.
* Good interpersonal skills with an ability to work cooperatively in a multidisciplinary setting, able to present to board level and integrate with senior management teams.
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