Overview
In this Medical Director role, you will provide strategic clinical leadership to ensure safe, high-quality services across Taurus Healthcare. You will advise the Board, shape strategy, and drive sustainable improvements in care models and governance. You’ll collaborate with practices, commissioners, and system partners to deliver patient-centered, accessible care across Herefordshire and promote workforce development. This is an executive, impact-focused opportunity to strengthen primary care and clinical governance while enabling innovation and learning within a supportive team.
Pay / Benefits
- Competitive salary
- NHS Pension - 23.78% employer contribution
- 33 to 38 days annual leave incl bank holidays
- Vivup benefits: counselling, salary sacrifice schemes, retail discounts
Responsibilities
- Provide executive leadership for clinical services, quality, patient safety and professional standards
- Act as senior clinical adviser to the Board, contributing to strategy, risk management and workforce planning
- Ensure safe, effective, high-quality delivery of clinical services
- Strengthen clinical governance, quality assurance, audit, risk management and organisational learning
- Drive input into service redesign, pathways, new models of care and digital transformation
- Lead professional development, appraisal, revalidation, succession planning for medical staff and advanced practitioners
- Build strong relationships with practices, commissioners and system partners to support integrated services across Herefordshire
- Foster a culture of learning, improvement, innovation and collaboration
Key requirements
- Medically qualified and GMC registered
- Substantial experience across primary care and community health services
- Proven experience leading diverse multidisciplinary teams
- Track record of delivering results through others
- Budget management and income optimisation experience
- Experience working across organisational boundaries within an integrated health and care system
- Experience building external partnerships to achieve strategic objectives
- Desirable: Experience as a GP
- Excellent communication
- Negotiation and stakeholder management
- Professionalism and ethical leadership
- Clinical governance and quality assurance
- Risk management and organisational learning
- Service redesign and pathway development
Medical Director in Hereford employer: National Health Service
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and collaborative work environment for healthcare professionals in North Wales. With a commitment to employee development and a focus on compassionate care, staff have access to continuous professional development opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact in both acute and community paediatrics. The Health Board's integrated approach ensures that employees are part of a dynamic team dedicated to improving health outcomes for the local population.
