The Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Safety and Delivery is a senior medical leadership post at Devon Partnership NHS Trust, which runs mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services across the south west. The work centres on quality and patient safety, strengthening clinical governance and turning incident learning, mortality reviews and audit into service improvement. It is a substantive consultant appointment with the deputy responsibilities offered on a fixed two-year tenure, and the post includes an on-call clinical rota. Applicants need MRCPsych or equivalent, Section 12 approval or eligibility, and Approved Clinician status.
What the job involves
- Provide senior medical leadership across the quality and patient safety agenda
- Strengthen clinical governance across services
- Turn learning from incidents, mortality reviews and clinical audit into improvement
- Help ensure safe, effective care is delivered consistently across services
- Provide assurance on quality and safety
- Champion learning and continuous improvement
- Support services to turn evidence, insight and learning into practical changes
- Work with the Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Executive, clinical and operational leaders and partners
- Take the medical lead on change management and service reconfiguration
- Shape service development with key stakeholders, including clinical networks
- Take part in the on-call clinical rota
What’s required
Qualifications
- MRCPsych or FRPsych equivalent
- General management qualifications and/or evidence of management development activity
Registration & licences
- Current GMC registration with licence to practise
- GMC revalidation, in-date appraisal and evidence of continuing professional development
- Section 12 approval or eligibility for Section 12 approval
- Approved Clinician status
Experience
- Senior management experience in a complex organisation, with the ability to build relationships with peers and key players inside and outside the Trust
- Involvement in change management and taking the medical lead on service reconfiguration, including working with stakeholders and clinical networks
- Clinical experience across a range of services
Skills & knowledge
- Awareness of the primary interests and concerns of different health and social care professional groups in mental health and learning disability services
- Ability to link service cost, activity and quality information and report it at strategic level
- Ability to prioritise and deliver a diverse, changing work programme to deadline
- High calibre written and spoken communication and presentation, with effective verbal reasoning and lateral thinking
- Detailed knowledge of medical workforce, service, clinical and research governance in mental health and learning disabilities, plus CQC inspection processes, NHS policy and the government's modernisation agenda
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
Other
- Willingness to work flexibly across the region and be mobile across Trust areas and nationally
What’s offered
- Part-time and flexible working applications considered and supported where possible
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