Job summary
Shropshire Community Health Trust (ShropCom) is on an exciting trajectory of development and are looking for a dynamic Medical Director or an aspiring medical director to play a key and rewarding role.
Our aim is to provide high quality, innovative health services close to people's homes. As a community Trust that values collaborative working, we work closely with partners across all health and social care settings and our new Medical Director will work alongside the Board to develop and be at the forefront of these important partnerships.
We are looking for a dedicated individual who is passionate when it comes to delivering and developing high quality community services for our patients. The ideal candidate will have an abundance of people skills and a real drive to help lead staff and the Trust in meeting the Trusts vision, values, and goals.
With significant experience in a leadership role within a clinical setting you will be a leader in your field ready to take on the challenges and fast paced nature of the role, whilst ensuring the organisation provides safe, high quality, acceptable care for patients/service users.
This is an exciting position for a candidate with the energy and ambition to not only deliver, but to develop your career, build on your experience and play a key role in the exciting future of the Trust. If you are also interested in doing clinical work across our system such as SATH, we would be delighted to explore this at the interview.
Main duties of the job
The Medical Director will advise the Board of Directors on medical andrelated clinical issues. As a member of the Executive Team, they willlead the delivery of high-quality patient care and the development anddelivery of integrated clinical governance systems to assure this. Theywill also provide professional leadership to all medical, dental andpharmacy staff, leading and facilitating their engagement in thedevelopment and delivery of the organisation's vision, strategy, andobjectives.
About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached candidate packs which includes the job description and person specification for further information on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached candidate packs which includes the job description and person specification for further information on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Medical Practitioner with current registration with GMC/Qualified Dental Practitioner with current GDC registration
- Masters Qualification plus post graduate diploma OR Doctorate
- Evidence of continued professional/leadership development at senior level
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience as a practicing senior clinician embracing teaching, audit, research and development
- Significant experience in a leadership role e.g. clinical lead/director working a multi disciplinary, multi agency health/social care environment
- Experience of working at board/committee level
- Experience of contributing to strategic development and planning and delivering/supporting clinical service improvements
- Experience of influencing service and clinical developments through information, data and service line reporting processes
- Proven ability to integrate and motivate clinicians to deliver clear outcomes and results to improve patient/user experience
- Ability to act corporately and take corporate decisions; influencing, persuading and advising the Board on medical and governance matters
- Experience of building successful partnership arrangements and managing intensive interagency working
Knowledge and understanding
Essential
- Understanding of the role of the Board
- Knowledge of professional, educational and statutory requirements of medical and dental staff
- Clinical and corporate governance frameworks
- Medicines management
- Knowledge of government policy and ability to translate that into a local context for strategic planning purposes and operational delivery in relation to the medical workforce
- Knowledge of benchmarking, research and audit requirements to continuously develop services and improve standards of care
- Refined and transferable leadership skills - ability to adapt and adjust style to meet the needs of a situation
- Highly developed leadership skills, including: Change management, political intelligence, influencing, engaging and collaboration skills and resilience
Skills
Essential
- Advanced communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to interpret and support policy implementation relevant to the role.
- Ability to communicate effectively: verbally, written and through network development
- Commitment to supporting the development of a cohesive senior team
- Strong prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands.
- Highly skilled in influencing, negotiating and building working relationships
Personal
Essential
- Engaging and empowering approach that seeks engage, involve and develop others and deliver outcomes in a successful and well informed manner
- Ability to coach and facilitate the development of team members to increase performance
- Strong leadership skills, confident, credible
- High standards of professional probity
- Ability to work effectively in collaboration and partnership with other colleagues and professionals
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Medical Practitioner with current registration with GMC/Qualified Dental Practitioner with current GDC registration
- Masters Qualification plus post graduate diploma OR Doctorate
- Evidence of continued professional/leadership development at senior level
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience as a practicing senior clinician embracing teaching, audit, research and development
- Significant experience in a leadership role e.g. clinical lead/director working a multi disciplinary, multi agency health/social care environment
- Experience of working at board/committee level
- Experience of contributing to strategic development and planning and delivering/supporting clinical service improvements
- Experience of influencing service and clinical developments through information, data and service line reporting processes
- Proven ability to integrate and motivate clinicians to deliver clear outcomes and results to improve patient/user experience
- Ability to act corporately and take corporate decisions; influencing, persuading and advising the Board on medical and governance matters
- Experience of building successful partnership arrangements and managing intensive interagency working
Knowledge and understanding
Essential
- Understanding of the role of the Board
- Knowledge of professional, educational and statutory requirements of medical and dental staff
- Clinical and corporate governance frameworks
- Medicines management
- Knowledge of government policy and ability to translate that into a local context for strategic planning purposes and operational delivery in relation to the medical workforce
- Knowledge of benchmarking, research and audit requirements to continuously develop services and improve standards of care
- Refined and transferable leadership skills - ability to adapt and adjust style to meet the needs of a situation
- Highly developed leadership skills, including: Change management, political intelligence, influencing, engaging and collaboration skills and resilience
Skills
Essential
- Advanced communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to interpret and support policy implementation relevant to the role.
- Ability to communicate effectively: verbally, written and through network development
- Commitment to supporting the development of a cohesive senior team
- Strong prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands.
- Highly skilled in influencing, negotiating and building working relationships
Personal
Essential
- Engaging and empowering approach that seeks engage, involve and develop others and deliver outcomes in a successful and well informed manner
- Ability to coach and facilitate the development of team members to increase performance
- Strong leadership skills, confident, credible
- High standards of professional probity
- Ability to work effectively in collaboration and partnership with other colleagues and professionals
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
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).
