NWL Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC) and CMH Medical Director

Job summary

North West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC) and Central Middlesex Hospital (CMH) Medical Director

To have clinical oversight of the NWL Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC) and the CMH Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) from an LNWH and site perspective.

As a member of the NWL EOC partnership board they will work in partnership with NWL clinical partners to deliver the safe and efficient functioning of the EOC service and its accompanying clinical strategy. As a member of the LNWH Trust Executive Group, the EOC and CMH Medical Director will play a leadership role, overviewing cross divisional site issues, aligning medical and other staff on all sites, influencing the management and development of the site and Trust

Candidates will be medically qualified, with a successful consultant career to date. Their experience should include a track record of leadership, at Clinical Director or equivalent level, involving substantial change programmes, organisational capability and setting strategic vision and direction. They will possess an understanding of the complexity of secondary and tertiary healthcare.

Candidates should recognise the two distinct, but co-located, aspects to this role (the NWL EOC partnership and the LNWH CMH site medical director). They should relish achallengeand demonstrate tenacity in the face of uncertainty. They should be determined to improve their personal skills and knowledge through on-going continuous professional development.

Main duties of the job

Corporate and Clinical Leadership (Quality of Care)

(Note: St.Mark's Hospital has its own distinct and separate governance arrangements which sit outwith this role)

To have oversight of the NWL EOC and the CMH UTC from an LNWH and site perspective.

To be a member of the NWL EOC partnership board and to work in partnership with NWL clinical partners to deliver the safe and efficient functioning of the EOC service and its accompanying clinical strategy.

To be accountable for the delivery of safe, high quality patient care as an overriding priority.

To represent medical leadership for the Office of MD at the hospital site in particular supporting cross divisional leadership issues.

To be the 'on site' and 'day to day' medical lead for the respective Hospital site

Use of Resources

To provide support to NWL EOC partners, and the LNWH divisions, in the delivery of the key quality and performance standards and where necessary, to identify and help develop EOC, or site specific, clinical outcome measures.

To be operationally accountable to the Chief Operating Officer and professionally accountable to the Chief Medical Officer in respect of delivery of all relevant site-specific activity and performance objectives from a medical perspective.

To delivery as part of the site triumvirate the quarterly site-specific reports to the Board and the sub-committees as required.

About us

Working for your organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond and runs major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
• St Mark's Hospital (based at CMH, Abbey Road, Park Royal) : an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.