Divisional Medical Director - Unplanned Care Division

Divisional Medical Director - Unplanned Care Division

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Corporate Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job ref 361-R2R-UPMD-2024-A

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £99,532 - £131,964 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/07/2024 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

Divisional Medical Director – Unplanned Care Division
An exciting senior medical leadership opportunity is available in our organisation to oversee and deliver high impact, patient centred, resilient and innovative medical specialty services. You will be working with motivated and committed multi-professional teams and shape and will be able to influence system wide strategy for care for patients with long term conditions.

As the Divisional Medical Director, you will be jointly responsible and accountable, with the Divisional Operations Director, Divisional Director of Nursing & Quality, and the Head of Therapies (the Divisional Leadership Team) for the delivery of high quality and high performing services, within budget for an agreed level of activity at an expected level of service, efficiency, and clinical quality.

The divisional leadership team are required to ensure all the activities undertaken within the Division are subject to best practice governance arrangements and meet national and local policies and guidance.

The divisional leadership team will provide leadership and direction for the division, ensuring the fulfilment of the Trust’s objectives, patient safety and the roll-out, adoption and use of the Trust’s improvement methodology, East and North Herts Production System (based on the Virginia Mason Production System).

Main duties of the job

As part of your role, you will directly manage the Care Group Heads of Clinical Service, who in turn, will manage the Clinical Directors in their Care Group, who manage consultants in their specialties.

The Lead Divisional Director role is an 18-month tenure, rotating between Divisional Leadership team members. The person holding the Lead Divisional Director role will have overall responsibility for the day to day line management of colleagues in the divisional leadership team and is line managed by the Chief Operating Officer.

The divisional leadership team remain jointly responsible for the effective implementation of both national and local strategies along with the achievement of national standards and targets.

The Unplanned Care Division includes 11 specialties with many organised as secondary and tertiary services. The budget is £155m (pay & non pay) and the number of consultants funded in establishment is 132 WTE.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care
• Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
• Active participation in continuing medical education

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
• Primary Medical Degree.
• Hold a substantive consultant contract
• Qualification in medical leadership, or to be in process of achieving this

Previous Experience

• Experience of leadership as a clinical director, assistant/deputy clinical director or directorate / care group clinical lead.
• Demonstrable experience of effective budgetary management and control
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [email protected]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

When you apply...

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Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Lucy Davies Job title Chief Operating Officer Email address [email protected] Additional information

Dr Justin Daniels, Medical Director
[email protected]
(01438) 288845