Overview
Are you an experienced clinical leader ready to shape the future of healthcare across Stockport and Tameside & Glossop? We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Site Medical Director to join our senior leadership team, working collaboratively across two forward-thinking NHS Foundation Trusts. This is a unique opportunity to drive clinical excellence, champion patient safety, and foster innovation in a newly strengthened partnership.
Responsibilities
* Provide strong, visible leadership to medical and dental staff, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care.
* Be accountable for delivering the Trusts' clinical and medical engagement strategies, supporting both local and national objectives.
* Deputise for the Chief Medical Officer, offering expert advice and operational support across a range of strategic activities.
* Lead on patient safety, quality improvement, and learning from incidents, embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
* Oversee medical appraisal, revalidation, and professional development, ensuring compliance with GMC requirements.
* Champion compassionate and inclusive leadership, promoting equality, diversity, and a culture of speaking up.
* Support financial management and efficiency programmes, working closely with divisional teams.
* Work closely with Executive Teams to embed a patient safety culture throughout the Trust's and associated sites.
* Disseminate best practice and promote governance including clinical audit, research, service improvement and learning from safety incidents.
* Engage in activity to develop and implement the quality improvement strategy to ensure consistent delivery of healthcare that is safe, effective, person-centred, timely, efficient and equitable.
* Put in place governance arrangements that enable delivery of patient services in the safest possible way.
* Promote a culture committed to learning from complaints, incidents, audits, research, and development.
* Regularly review quality and safety, governance and risk, operational performance, and other statutory and mandatory KPIs at site level, escalating risk through approved pathways to the Joint Executive team and Board.
* Contribute to the development of the Combined Quality Strategy.
* Hold delegated responsibility for ensuring doctors with a prescribed connection to the organisation undertake high-quality annual medical appraisal to support GMC revalidation requirements.
* Ensure appraisers have completed accredited training and receive updates as required.
* Lead on the Trust's delivery of the consultants' annual appraisal cycle, in line with the Trust medical appraisal policy and GMC revalidation requirements.
* Lead on resolving issues relating to performance and misconduct of medical staff for the site, including Maintaining High Professional Standards where necessary.
* Oversee infection prevention and control policies in collaboration with the Infection Prevention & Control teams.
* Challenge inappropriate clinical hygiene practices and antibiotic prescribing decisions with infection control teams.
* Assess the impact of policies on infection and recommend changes where needed.
* Oversee consistent application of job planning principles, working with the Chief Medical Officer, Divisional Directors, and Medical Staffing Teams.
* Support Divisional Medical Directors in the job planning process and escalate inconsistencies as required.
* Provide visible and effective leadership for all medical staff on site, promoting continuous professional development and appraisal, and monitoring performance.
* Use feedback from national surveys to improve and enhance the experience of medical staff at all levels, ensuring engagement and empowerment.
* Promote a culture of speaking up where concerns are addressed and staff voices are heard in decision making.
* Develop the medical staff cohort to reflect Trust values and promote equality of opportunity and good relations across staff groups.
* Act as the representative of the Chief Medical Officer on Trust Consultant appointments committees and be the Acting Chief Medical Officer when the Chief Medical Officer is on leave, attending Board-level committees if required.
* Deliver a balanced budget each year as part of the senior leadership team, including cost improvement plans and Trust-wide efficiency schemes.
* Participate in the Trust appraisal process and contribute to identified development needs.
About the Trust
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
* Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits
* Flexible working
* 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme
* Free eye tests and health checks
* Gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme
* Salary sacrifice car scheme
* Support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and more
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