Job summary
Our new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) will play a pivotal role in enabling the delivery of the highest standard of healthcare to patients. They will be working with firm foundations, embedded by our previous CMO, ensuring our staff are supported to deliver outstanding care for our communities.
As an Executive Director, the CMO has a critical role on the Board, providing expert advice and support, as well as contributing to the strategic direction of the Trust and for the quality of service and care provided to our patients. We're seeking someone who shares our passion to build and maintain the culture, capacity and capability required to meet the challenges we face in the years ahead and continue to deliver high-quality patient-centred care. The role offers the chance to not just shape this within the trust, but to work and engage across the wider local health and social care systems, and we are looking for someone who will want to be a role model for our values every single day.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Medical Officer is a full member of the Trust Board sharing corporate responsibility for the governance and performance of the Trust, its strategic direction and for meeting its objectives and targets. The post holder also has shared responsibility for developing an organisational climate which fosters genuine partnership with service users and carers, frontline staff and other statutory and non-statutory bodies in the development of socially inclusive, good quality mental health, social care and learning disabilities services.
The post holder will have specific responsibility for providing leadership to the medical staff, promoting excellent medical engagement, ensuring pharmaceutical advice and quality improvement to the Board; and the Caldicott Guardian.
The post holder will foster a culture of continuous improvement to improve the delivery of high quality care.
Additionally, the CMO will undertake 1-2PA a week clinical work in services.
About us
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Working in Sussex:
Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure
We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Other key staff survey results include:
70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
See the attached 'Partnership Perks' document for details about our benefits package.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached information pack, which includes the job description and person specification, outlining the responsibilities of the role.
This is a substantive position, with a full time 37.5 hour per week working pattern. There will be a requirement to be based on site (Portland House) for part of the working week.
Please see attached job description for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Key assessment dates:
- Stakeholder Groups (virtual) - 22nd August 2024
- Panel Interviews (Portland House, Worthing) - 27th August 2024
To arrange an informal discussion, please contact Georgia Biddlecombe (Business Manager) at georgia.biddlecombe1@spft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached information pack, which includes the job description and person specification, outlining the responsibilities of the role.
This is a substantive position, with a full time 37.5 hour per week working pattern. There will be a requirement to be based on site (Portland House) for part of the working week.
Please see attached job description for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Key assessment dates:
- Stakeholder Groups (virtual) - 22nd August 2024
- Panel Interviews (Portland House, Worthing) - 27th August 2024
To arrange an informal discussion, please contact Georgia Biddlecombe (Business Manager) at georgia.biddlecombe1@spft.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Consultant Psychiatrist status, certificate of specialist training and on the GMC specialist register for psychiatry
- Registered and licensed to practice medicine in the UK
- Approved responsible clinician and for section 12MHA
- Responsible officer trained
- Caldicott Guardian trained
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of Clinical Director roles in more than one Mental Health Provider Trust clinically leading operations and transformation
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a senior position within the public or private sector
- Working with NIHR or NICE in the creation of evidence for practice
- Track record of delivering large scale change and knowledge of quality improvement methodologies and evidence
- Extensive clinical experience as a consultant psychiatrist managing clinical complexity and co-morbidity
- Medical Appraiser
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Consultant Psychiatrist status, certificate of specialist training and on the GMC specialist register for psychiatry
- Registered and licensed to practice medicine in the UK
- Approved responsible clinician and for section 12MHA
- Responsible officer trained
- Caldicott Guardian trained
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of Clinical Director roles in more than one Mental Health Provider Trust clinically leading operations and transformation
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a senior position within the public or private sector
- Working with NIHR or NICE in the creation of evidence for practice
- Track record of delivering large scale change and knowledge of quality improvement methodologies and evidence
- Extensive clinical experience as a consultant psychiatrist managing clinical complexity and co-morbidity
- Medical Appraiser
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
