Group Chief Medical Officer
Closing date: 20 June 2026.
This is a significant Board-level opportunity to shape the future of clinical services across a developing NHS Group.
As Group Chief Medical Officer, you will be a voting Board Director across both organisations, providing professional leadership to the medical workforce and playing a central role in shaping the next stage of the Group's development. You will lead on clinical quality, patient safety and clinical governance, championing excellence in care while supporting innovation, research and new models of service delivery.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the Chief Executive, Chief Nursing Officer and executive colleagues, you will help design and deliver the transformation of clinical services across both Trusts. You will support the development of a consistent clinical model and workforce approach, strengthening collaboration within and between organisations and across system partners.
This is a role that requires visible, credible and compassionate leadership. You will engage and influence clinicians at every level, build strong partnerships internally and externally, and help create a culture in which multidisciplinary teams are empowered to lead improvement and deliver high standards of patient care.
About us
Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have been working in partnership since 2019, moving to a single Chief Executive and executive team in 2023 and establishing Boards and committees in common in 2024.
Together, we are building a Group model designed to deliver improved outcomes for patients, strengthen clinical sustainability and support collaborative working at scale across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Job responsibilities
We are seeking a senior medical leader with substantial experience at consultant level and a strong track record in clinical leadership and governance within a complex healthcare organisation. You will bring the ability to lead large‑scale change, shape strategic direction and build collaborative relationships across organisational and system boundaries.
This is an opportunity to join an ambitious and evolving Group, working across acute, community and ambulance services, with a shared vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for patients and communities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Qualifications
* Medical graduate
* Higher medical professional qualification
* Evidence of continued learning and professional development
* Unblemished registration with GMC
* Postgraduate qualifications in either medical education or clinical governance
Leadership Qualities
* Self-management
* Personal integrity
* Broad scanning
* Seizing the future
* Political astuteness
* Drive for results
* Collaborative working
* Effective and strategic influencing
* Holding to account
* Drive for improvement
Experience
* Substantial clinical experience at consultant level
* Significant experience in medical management in a relevant healthcare organisation
* Strong reputation as a clinician and clinical leader with a proven track record of producing high‑quality results in the management and leadership of clinical services
* Experience in building organisational capabilities, including establishing a clear strategic vision and directing it into successful outcomes
* Experience of managing clinical governance
* Proven record of establishing productive working relations and effective partnership across internal and external networks
* Previous Medical Director experience
* Experience of managing postgraduate training
* Experience of leading a large complex organisation through significant change
Skills & Knowledge
* Capable of developing strategic plans, generating commitment to these plans and delivering change
* Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions
* Able to win hearts and minds, lead and motivate clinicians, managers and staff and to harness and nurture talent
* High levels of tenacity, drive, enthusiasm and resilience, to achieve goals and to see things through
* Exceptional influencing and negotiating skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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