Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting time to join the Executive Team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as we continue our improvement journey. We are proud of our recent improvements; however, we recognise the opportunities and ongoing challenges facing our Trust and wider health and care partners. In taking on this important role, you will bring experience, energy and innovation to guide, develop, and shape our medical professionals while supporting the further development and implementation of the Trust's priorities including its financial sustainability plan.
We recognise that if our Chief Medical Officer is going to achieve genuine and lasting change, they will need outstanding communication, networking, and engagement skills, with a dynamic, patient-centric approach that promotes a culture placing safety, quality, and outcomes at the heart of everything we do.
An inclusive leader, you will also play a critical role in representing the Trust within the Lancashire and South Cumbria 'system', working collaboratively with other medical directors at a national and regional level. To take this critical executive portfolio forward, we require a talented leader with a track record of providing visible, credible, and effective leadership always focused on patient safety.
Main duties of the job
Working as a key member of the Trust's executive team, as Chief Medical Officer you will share collective responsibility with the Board for leading organisational and cultural change and guiding the Trust to become widely recognised as a great place to work.
Working closely with the executive team, clinicians, senior operational teams and staff networks alongside system partners, we are looking for someone whose own personal values align with ours of 'caring, safe, respectful'. You will have a vision for developing a culture that supports our colleagues to be the best they can be and to achieve better care together for the benefit of our population.
We are not underestimating the challenges facing today's health system but believe there are the foundations here in Blackpool to deliver truly excellent, integrated services that can make a major impact on the lives of people we serve. If you have the compassion, skills, and track record to succeed in this exciting and complex role and help us achieve this ambition, please get in touch.
About us
We are an organisation of scale and complexity with a workforce of c8,500. As a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000-strong population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool, your leadership as Chief Medical Officer will impact the health outcomes of a complex and diverse population.
With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our colleagues and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care and models of care that are sustainable.
We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today's health system.
Job responsibilities
1. Work with the Board of Directors, Governing Council, staff and associated external bodies to develop a shared understanding of the Trusts vision, values and strategic aims.
2. Work closely with the Chief Executive and senior colleagues to shape and manage our long-term strategic objectives.
3. Undertake an active role in shaping and delivering the hospital services strategy ensuring that services are in line with national guidance.
4. Work closely with primary, community and specialist colleagues, providing organisational and system leadership to improve clinical outcomes.
5. Develop and improve clinical pathways and deliver system-wide transformation projects.
6. Advise the Chief Executive and the Board of Directors on all aspects of medical, clinical governance and medicine management issues.
7. Develop effective working relationships with the Associate Medical Directors, Divisional Directors and Clinical Leads to ensure that the views of clinicians are available to the Board and implications of decisions are made explicit to the Board.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
* Medical Degree or equivalent
* NHS consultant status or equivalent
* Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
* Full GMC registration without restrictions
Experience
* Significant and highly successful track record in a senior medical leadership role within a large, complex organisation
* Comprehensive understanding of clinical issues within the modern NHS
* Proven experience of supporting and delivering effective change in processes in relation to clinical services
* Able to identify, understand and articulate strategic medical issues
* Understanding of corporate and clinical governance responsibilities
* Track record of modernising medical practice and service change with clinical and understanding of the regional and local healthcare landscape
* Understanding of NHS drivers and implications for our services
Leadership and Management Style
* Dynamic, open, willingness to participate and supportive leadership and management style
* Ability to command respect and support of senior clinicians
* Ability to develop excellent relationships both internally and externally within the NHS and beyond
* Team builder committed to organisational aims and objectives
* Ability to influence and drive the decision-making process within a performance management framework
* Ability to lead and support the medical body
Special Aptitudes and Competences
* Outstanding personal impact, drive, enthusiasm, commitment, and presence
* Innovator with strategic vision and planning abilities
* Initiator with excellent communication, analytical and presentation skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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