Deputy Medical Director - Organ and Tissue
Collaboration and Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, and we seek a Deputy Medical Director that shares this commitment. As OTDT Deputy Medical Director, you will play a key role in supporting the current OTDT Medical Director by helping to provide leadership and professional input for the Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation directorate and the wider Donation and Transplantation community.
In addition to supporting the OTDT Medical Director, the deputy will have a key role in the OTDT Clinical Team and will be expected to support in the delivery of our strategy Organ Donation and Transplantation 2030: Meeting the Need & Tissue and Eye Services Strategy 2023-2026.
Main Duties of the Job
The role requires a proven track record of delivering sustained change within and beyond your specialism, as well as good communication skills and innovative leadership, in order to contribute to our key projects and programmes.
About Us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives, and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary—donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.
Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Job Responsibilities
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 7th May 2025.
Interviews are anticipated to be held either 19th or 20th May subject to confirmation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Full and Specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the GMC (or be eligible for registration within 6 months of interview).
* On specialist register for a relevant speciality e.g. surgery, medicine.
Experience
* Experience of clinical medicine/research within the field of transplantation or organ donation to a demonstrable level of excellence.
* Practical experience of clinical governance and clinical quality measures.
* Understanding of Healthcare Commissioning.
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.
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