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About
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
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Regional Medical Director
Accepting applications until: 16-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 16-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- South West House / South West Region
- Address
- Taunton
- Town
- Taunton
- Postcode
- TA1 2PX
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £100,000 - £200,000 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical and Dental)
Specialty
- Main area
- Regional Medical Director
- Interview date
- 16/08/2024
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
As Regional Medical Director & Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO)for the South West, the post holder will provide strategic clinical leadership to regional and local networks of clinicians, driving clinical effectiveness, clinical improvement and patient safety throughout the South West region and lead the Digital Transformation Team.
The candidate will provide collaborative leadership, hold strong values as detailed in the South West Way and act as a role model for patient safety, clinical engagement & clinical improvement, ensuring that clinical input is integral to our improvement programmes.
You will have a track record of leading service improvement in a complex environment, working collaboratively across organisations and systems to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality care and you will bring significant experience as an executive medical leader in the NHS.
The post holder will be a key contributor to overall strategy and decision-making within the Region and will work closely and collaboratively with other Executives in NHS England South West and throughout the Region. This includes discharging NHS England’s Regulatory and Commissioning duties.
As (HLRO) you will lead on Professional Standards, act as HLRO for all of the Designated Bodies Responsible Officers in the Region and reporting to the National Medical Director.
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Key responsibilities include:
· providing system leadership and clinical advice and ensuring system resilience with a focus on positive outcomes and overall quality and safety of patient care.
· overseeing clinical commissioning of specialist services, health and justice services and leading strategic medical input to public health service commissioning.
· regional surveillance and quality assurance of NHS healthcare providers.
· determining clinical support for trusts in National Oversight Framework (NOF) 4 for reasons of quality and or performance (and NOF 3 trusts that are at risk of moving to NOF 4) to ensure that trusts receive the necessary support to improve. This may include working with the National Medical Director to coordinate a network of Medical Directors to support Trusts in difficulty.
· oversight of professional standards systems and processes to ensure doctors are supported, fit to practice and are delivering high quality of care for patients.
· leading Clinical Senates, with responsibility for developing and overseeing implementation of senate work plans.
· providing clinical leadership to digital transformation to enhance patient care and to support self-directed care by patients.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Promoting improvement in the quality of care within the regional health system through clinical leadership and engagement.
· Exhibit clinical leadership and strategic influence across the whole system of care spanning primary, community, secondary, and specialised tertiary services such that the quality, safety, and experience of care is enhanced in all spheres, engaging clinicians at all levels in provision of best value care.
· In collaboration with the Regional Chief Nurse to enact and oversee systems which enable early notification of significant variations in clinical practice and the quality of patient care and to take timely remedial action. The Regional Medical Director will identify and mitigate clinical risks, acting as necessary to bring about improvements that will maintain and enhance clinical quality and safety.
· In collaboration with the Regional Chief Nurse he/she will lead on work promoting improvements in quality of care. The RMD will act as the patient’s champion, being independent and fair, promoting equality and diversity, reducing inequalities, ensuring value for money, securing good governance of NHS providers and challenging poor delivery of services.
· In collaboration with the Regional Chief Nurse, motivate, empower and support the regional quality team to ensure that appropriate assurance is received on clinical quality and governance. They will support the organisation to deliver its statutory duties, particularly in relation to the duty of quality, the promotion of innovation, patient experience and choice, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and equality and diversity.
· To contribute to and support national strategy for quality improvement. To be professionally accountable to the National Medical Director and, at times, to act or be a delegate for the National Medical Director.
· To communicate and lead the NHS message on quality improvement from a clinical perspective. The Regional Medical Director will promote quality, innovation and productivity. He/she will promote and facilitate transformational change. He/she will act as a role model for medical leaders.
· Promote a culture of safety & quality, using a learning culture and improvement methodology.
· Provide professional leadership, advice and support to Medical Directors/CMO of provider trusts, systems and other medical leaders and to oversee recruitment to Executive Medical Director posts within the region.
· Provide leadership and support to systems and providers with performance issues, where necessary, and to collaborate with and support the central team in managing trusts and systems within the oversight framework .
· Work with the Director of Workforce, Training and Education to ensure there is a robust pipeline for medical leadership roles within the region, by supporting national initiatives such as the aspiring medical directors programme.
- Ensure there are support systems for newly appointed medical leaders within the region; Engage with the clinical leadership and engagement infrastructure, namely the Clinical Senates Council & Forum, the established Clinical Networks, Operational Delivery Networks, Health Innovation Networks (HINs) and ICBs, to drive transformation of the system in the interests of quality and value;
· Specifically, regarding Clinical Networks and HINs the post holder will be expected to agree business plans, ensure appropriate synergy and alignment with regional and national objectives, and undertake quarterly assurance meetings.
· Strategic change across the region will be delivered through support of ICSs, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and their leadership. The post holder will be expected to act as a source of advice and support for ICSs through the convening of ad hoc advisory groups where necessary and affording access to the formal advisory architecture.
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Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK under the Skilled Worker route are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.
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NHS England
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Medically qualified with current licence to practice
- Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with the requirements of an appropriate recognised professional body.
Exeperiance and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience at senior level working as a Board Director within an NHS organisation.
- In depth knowledge of medical revalidation processes and policy
- Expert knowledge of the commissioning and provision of healthcare.
- Significant experience of setting strategic direction that will have major and significant impact across a large-scale function.
- Evidence of widely acknowledged expertise in the specialist domain relevant to this role including papers published, national/international conference presentations, invited lectures, additional specialist qualifications, leadership of National committees/working parties.
- Good understanding of health system dynamics and policy.
- Knowledge of best practice on quality in healthcare.
- Evidence of practical application of the professional regulatory framework and associated policies across a variety of complex situations
- Evidence of development of a strategy/strategies drawing on expert and contemporary knowledge of the Health and Care system, regulatory frameworks, sensitivity to the political and cultural environment, evidenced through recognised best-practice and successfully implemented at Regional/National level.
Skills. Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- High degree of emotional intelligence, self-awareness and resilience
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities as required.
- The ability to motivate and lead multi-disciplinary, multi-site teams in achieving ambitious and challenging targets.
- The ability to lead a diverse group of people in a large complex organisation through significant change.
- The capacity to think strategically and have the ability to analyse and solve highly complex problems, finding new solutions and breaking new ground where required.
- Political acumen, with an ability to understand the culture, climate and politics within the NHS; be attuned to the sensitivities of different stakeholder interests within the region, and work sensitively to overcome the differing positions and interests of these.
- Ability to prepare written reports on complex issues, including the preparation of board report.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elizabeth O'Mahony
- Job title
- Regional Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07783822951
- Additional information
Please contact Elizabeth O'Mahony via her Business Manager, Hermione Roberts. See contact number above.
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