CDG4 Medical Director Sutton Coldfield

We are looking for new enthusiastic CDG Medical Director who has a passion to deliver excellent care with a focus on patient safety. To provide leadership and direction to the Hospital, and to assist the Hospital Medical Director in the management of all resources and staff within the Clinical Delivery Group (CDG) in order to meet Hospital and Corporate objectives. To be a member of the Hospital CDG senior leadership team, working in partnership with other CDG Medical Directors and Hospital Medical Director to deliver the safe and efficient functioning of the Hospital and its accompanying clinical strategy.

Main duties of the job:

• Outstanding leadership capability and commitment to translating strategy into action
• Ability to drive service innovation, improvement and productivity
• Ability to guide organisational change including difficult and complex change
• Ambassadorial skills with an ability to demonstrate flexibility
• Significant Medical Leadership experience

Job Plan to be confirmed on commencement, depending on specialty of successful candidate. Initial job plan is based on a 10PA contract with scope of further increase to be negotiated up to a maximum of 12PAs.

About us:

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities:

Corporate:

• To support the Clinical Delivery Group Leads, and wider Leadership, for translating University Hospitals Birmingham's vision into reality, particularly in relation to achieving significant and sustained improvements in the quality of clinical services provided by the Group and the way all staff groups are trained and developed.
• Contribute to the overall management of the CDG with specific responsibility for medical advice in relation to the CDG operational issues.
• To support Hospital relationships with external agencies including BSol, NHSE, professional bodies and regulators.

Leadership:

• To provide visible, effective medical leadership, including direct line management of Clinical Service Leads (CSLs) within the CDG.
• As a member of the CDG Leadership Team, to ensure effective clinical and operational performance - leading transformation and improvement across the CDG.
• Working alongside the ADNs, be responsible for providing senior leadership for clinical quality and patient safety and its governance and improvement within the CDG.
• Act as 'day to day' medical leader for the CDG.
• Oversee medical workforce development and professionalism as the basis of clinical quality and productivity and positive patient experience at specialty level.
• Support the clinical services in the CDG to deliver Hospital and Trust priorities and service level objectives.
• To deputise for the Hospital Medical Director when required.

Strategic Development:

• To contribute to the Hospital's strategic vision and develop relationships with key external partners and stakeholders as required.

Clinical:

• To ensure that CDG specialty teams maintain up-to-date team and individual job plans which reflect service commitments and hospital priorities.
• Promote and support service-led improvements in quality and productivity across the CDG, ensuring that agreed efficiency and productivity standards are achieved and that best practice pathways are adopted.

Governance:

• Lead Q&S governance, accountable for completion of reports to the Hospital Q&S meeting, completion of actions from all CDG4-related investigations and completion and durable implementation of learning responses.

Person Specification:

Qualifications Essential:

• Qualified Medical or Dental professional, GMC or GDC registered
• Unblemished registration with GMC.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.