Job summary
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is looking for a strategic and compassionate leader to join our Board as Medical Director. Candidates will already be a senior NHS leader with an excellent track record of delivering improved quality of care to patients and will also be a champion of the workforce delivering that care.
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining an ambitious Board and successful Executive team. As Medical Director you will play a significant role in the reconfiguration of our services designed to enhance patient experience, as well as provide a positive environment for colleagues. In addition to our brand new, purpose-built Emergency Department on our Huddersfield hospital site with the very latest digital and clinical technology, we are planning to expand our services at our Halifax site to further improve the services we offer to the communities we serve, including our community based services in Calderdale.
Our Medical Director will work nationally, regionally and locally to further advance our work on Health Inequalities and will be a determined and focused champion for the quality of care we provide across all our services. You will join a Board that is fully committed to improving health outcomes in our communities and who sees the health and wellbeing of its workforce as vital to the delivery of compassionate care to our patients.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Executive member of the Board, the Medical Director has collective responsibility with other Executive Directors in leading the Trust collaboratively, compassionately, creatively and innovatively in line with One Culture of Care.
Inclusion is at the core of our values and behaviours, and the Medical Director will play a key role in further improving our workforce diversity and leadership as well as providing a positive approach that includes colleagues in the decisions that impact them.
Championing the quality of care to our patients and the wellbeing of colleagues, the Medical Director is responsible for advising and guiding the Board on clinical issues whilst also being the Board lead for professional matters relating to the medical and dental workforce.
In conjunction with the Chief Nurse the Medical Director will ensure the provision of safe, compassionate care to patients, embedding the quality of care and patient safety at the core of Trust services.
As the senior medical professional in the Trust, the Medical Director leads with other Board colleagues the development of the clinical strategy and its underpinning medical workforce strategy. The Medical Director is the guardian of medical performance and professional standards with Board responsibility for the revalidation of doctors and Medical Education and is the Trusts Responsible Officer.
The Medical Director will contribute proactively, in partnership with Director colleagues, in the Trusts hospital/services reconfiguration programme.
The Medical Director is a key player in the improvement of public health education and health inequalities at a national, system and place level ensuring the Trust is a centre of excellence for all issues related to patient care and the medical and dental workforce.
The Medical Director has joint responsibility with the Chief Nurse and Director of Corporate Affairs for Quality and Safety.
The Medical Director is the Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC) for the Trust.
Divisional Directors, who are medically qualified/registered, will report to the Medical Director with a dotted line to the Chief Operating Officer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Executive member of the Board, the Medical Director has collective responsibility with other Executive Directors in leading the Trust collaboratively, compassionately, creatively and innovatively in line with One Culture of Care.
Inclusion is at the core of our values and behaviours, and the Medical Director will play a key role in further improving our workforce diversity and leadership as well as providing a positive approach that includes colleagues in the decisions that impact them.
Championing the quality of care to our patients and the wellbeing of colleagues, the Medical Director is responsible for advising and guiding the Board on clinical issues whilst also being the Board lead for professional matters relating to the medical and dental workforce.
In conjunction with the Chief Nurse the Medical Director will ensure the provision of safe, compassionate care to patients, embedding the quality of care and patient safety at the core of Trust services.
As the senior medical professional in the Trust, the Medical Director leads with other Board colleagues the development of the clinical strategy and its underpinning medical workforce strategy. The Medical Director is the guardian of medical performance and professional standards with Board responsibility for the revalidation of doctors and Medical Education and is the Trusts Responsible Officer.
The Medical Director will contribute proactively, in partnership with Director colleagues, in the Trusts hospital/services reconfiguration programme.
The Medical Director is a key player in the improvement of public health education and health inequalities at a national, system and place level ensuring the Trust is a centre of excellence for all issues related to patient care and the medical and dental workforce.
The Medical Director has joint responsibility with the Chief Nurse and Director of Corporate Affairs for Quality and Safety.
The Medical Director is the Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC) for the Trust.
Divisional Directors, who are medically qualified/registered, will report to the Medical Director with a dotted line to the Chief Operating Officer.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Applicants must be Registered with the General Medical Council on the Specialist Register and hold a current Licence to Practise
Desirable
- Management qualification, MBA or equivalent
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Applicants must be Registered with the General Medical Council on the Specialist Register and hold a current Licence to Practise
Desirable
- Management qualification, MBA or equivalent
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).
