This two-year Deputy Chief Medical Officer role at Devon Partnership NHS Trust, which runs mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, is attached to a substantive consultant post. The holder provides senior clinical leadership for effectiveness work, turning research, audit and NICE guidance into measurable gains in outcomes and quality. Deputy responsibilities sit on a fixed tenure, and external applicants are welcome. Fit depends on MRCPsych, Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status.
What the job involves
- Provide senior clinical leadership for the Trust's clinical effectiveness agenda
- Translate research, evidence, audit, NICE guidance and learning into measurable improvements in outcomes, quality and experience
- Work with the Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Executive, clinical leaders and partners to shape how innovative approaches are developed, evaluated and embedded
- Champion excellent clinical practice
- Strengthen the use of evidence and outcome data to drive improvement
- Support a culture in which innovation, learning and clinical leadership flourish
- Carry out Deputy CMO responsibilities on a fixed two-year tenure, alongside a substantive consultant post
Qualifications
- MRCPsych or FRPsych equivalent
- General management qualification and/or management development, plus evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Registration & licences
- Current GMC registration with licence to practise, with revalidation and in-date appraisal
- Section 12 approval (or eligibility) and Approved Clinician status
Experience
- Senior management in a complex organisation, building relationships with peers and key players inside and outside the Trust
- Change management, taking the medical lead, and service reconfiguration, shaping development with stakeholders including clinical networks
- Clinical experience across a range of services
Skills & knowledge
- High-calibre written and spoken communication and presentation, with effective verbal reasoning and lateral thinking
- Analysing service cost, activity and quality information and reporting at strategic level
- Prioritising a diverse, evolving workload and delivering complex objectives to deadline
- Awareness of the concerns of different health and social care professions in mental health and learning disability services
- Detailed understanding of medical workforce, service, clinical and research governance, and CQC inspection processes
- Knowledge of medical staffing and HR issues (EWTD, resident doctor hours, Consultant and SAS contracts, job planning, appraisal) and of NHS policy and the government modernisation agenda
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
Other
- Able to be mobile across the Trust's areas and nationally, and to work flexibly across the region
- Participation in the on-call clinical rota
What’s offered
- Part-time and flexible working applications considered and supported, where possible
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