Divisional Associate Medical Director in Women’s & Children’s Division | Barts Health NHS Trust

We are offering a challenging and exciting opportunity for a medical leader for the Women’s & Children’s Division in the role of Divisional Associate Medical Director. We have now moved to a new model of Divisional leadership across the 4 Divisions that make up the Royal London & Mile End Hospitals, where we appoint equivalent triumvirate/quad roles as the Divisional Associate Medical Director, the Divisional Associate Director of Nursing and the Divisional Director of Operations and the Associate Director of Midwifery (W&C only).

These roles, as the Medical Divisional lead, are accountable for professional issues, safety, standards and benchmarking, offering advice & guidance to the Divisional triumvirate, and the Divisional Director (if not selected as the eventual DD) will be respectively responsible for the clinical services, safety and medical workforce across the Children’s Hospital & Children’s specialised services, our improving and complex Maternity & Gynaecology services.

The post holder will:

• Provide professional support and leadership to the Divisional Director.
• Act for all medical professionals, accountable for matters including Divisional support for revalidation, continuous professional development, team & individual job planning, on-call rotas and shift patterns, rota design & rostering and other aspects of medical productivity.
• Be responsible for recruitment, resident doctor rostering, rota design and professional wellbeing.
• Support and assist teaching & training, trainees in difficulty, GMC and NHSE surveys and feedback and act to improve the working conditions of resident doctors within the Division.
• Lead on clinical audit, GIRFT reports, productivity and outpatients, and the implementation of national audit recommendations.
• Lead on patient safety and support Divisional governance and risk.
• Carry responsibility for in-patient flow, rounding, diagnostics, admission and discharge; be responsible for theatre efficiency & productivity, deteriorating patients, duty of candour and complaints; undertake to transform outpatients and drive forwards the digital agenda across the hospitals.
• Act for SDEC, virtual wards and as a connector to our Place obligation with Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and our increasing out-of-hospital offer to Tower Hamlets.
• Be the key contact on matters relating to the professional medical agenda and issues, nationally and locally working with the hospital MD and aligned to the CMO.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together. We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description and the person specification provide an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, outlining the qualification, skills, experience, and knowledge required.