Job overview
We are offering a challenging and exciting opportunity for a medical leader for the Specialist Medicine 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 roles as the Divisional Associate Medical Director, the Divisional Associate Director of Nursing and the Divisional Director of Operations. We will then manage a process where the Divisional Director, a Hospital Executive Board role, is selected from these three roles to be ‘first amongst equals’.
These roles, as the Medical Divisional lead, 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 our tertiary medical services for North-East London, including Renal & Transplantation, our planned Inflammatory Medicine Centre of Excellence, our Regional Pathology service and the Metabolic, Cardiac, Respiratory in-patient wards
Main duties of the job
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. Will 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
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Working at a Consultant level for a significant number of years.
2. Experience of leadership and management
3. Experience of clinical governance and of the measures to ensure patient safety
4. A record of partnership working
5. Track record of innovation
6. Track record of managing and developing staff
7. Track record of addressing poor performance
8. Track record of achieving financial targets
Desirable criteria
9. Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction
10. Whilst experience of Hospital management is desirable, this role offers an opportunity to build on and develop this skill if required
Skills
Essential criteria
11. Demonstrable leadership skills
12. Able to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear vision and sense of direction
13. Ability to define and implement policy development at directorate level
14. Communication skills, verbal and written Interpersonal skills, able to influence and motivate
15. Able to prioritise and manage competing demands
16. Able to lead continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies with a multidisciplinary team.
Knowledge/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
17. Medical graduate.
18. Higher medical professional qualification.
19. Post graduate medical qualifications.
20. Unblemished registration with GMC. Postgraduate qualifications in either medical education or clinical governance
21. Employed substantively in clinical practice within Barts Health NHS Trust
22. Evidence of continuing professional development
23. A good understanding of the current context of health and social care, and of clinical learning and research
24. An understanding of the healthcare issues in East London
25. A broad understanding of the systems for primary care, social care and commissioning
26. Knowledge of the Trust priorities
Attitudes and Values
Essential criteria
27. Understands and supports the vision and values of the Trust
28. Acts as a role model for senior as well as more junior colleagues
29. Team player, able to develop a culture that values colleagues and enables them to engage in problem solving and decision making
30. Motived for the role
31. Provide a role model for clinical leaders