Job summary
We are looking to recruit an exceptional Assistant Medical Director: Quality and Safety and Clinical Governance who has a proven track record of successfully delivering a complex portfolio.
The successful candidate will display natural leadership, drive and determination and will have successfully delivered a complex portfolio. They will display outstanding communication, negotiating and influencing skills that will support clinical and non-clinical staff to develop truly rural solutions for our planned important service developments. They will be passionate about patient safety and quality and will be committed to service improvement.
Main duties of the job
This post provides clinical leaders with a rich and varied experience by leading the delivery of local services and in liaising across networks with other Health Boards.
The post holder will be a very senior clinical leader in the Health Board. Working with other PTHB senior clinicians and managers, the post holder will lead medical clinical governance in PTHB (clinical effectiveness; patient safety; patient experience) and will support the Medical Director in discharging Responsible Officer duties. Working with staff from PTHB Workforce and Organisational Development, the post holder will lead the implementation of "Good Medical Practice" (General Medical Council, 2013) in the Health Board. Both Assistant Medical Directors will also lead work programmes in support of the Powys Health and Care Strategy and will support the PTHB transformation, moving care and intervention as close to people's homes as possible, shifting the balance towards prevention and early intervention. This may encompass local interpretation and delivery of National Delivery Plans.
About us
Powys Teaching Health Board (PTHB) is a rural Health Board serving the county of Powys. Services are delivered locally through primary care and a network of community hospitals and community services. These include midwifery-led services, mental health, learning disabilities, children's services, adult rehabilitation, and frailty services. Day case surgery is delivered in our day case theatres. We have a significant commissioning role, working with providers in both Wales and England.
Our ambitious Health and Care Strategy sets out our vision for the future of a healthy, caring Powys. This includes increasing the capacity, capability and resilience of primary and community services, improving integration throughout health and care pathways, and strengthening our planning and commissioning of high-quality services from neighbouring organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description for the post will be kept under regular review, in consultation with the post holder. The job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be fixed, definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will evolve, through discussion, over time.
The job description and person specification can be found imbedded within the candidate pack.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description for the post will be kept under regular review, in consultation with the post holder. The job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be fixed, definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will evolve, through discussion, over time.
The job description and person specification can be found imbedded within the candidate pack.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Medical professional
- Unblemished registration with GMC
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Post graduate medical qualifications
- Further evidence of management training and a commitment to ongoing professional development
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Must be or have been a practising GP or worked at Medical Consultant level.
- Clinical Governance.
- Medical Management
- Significant organisational change experience / managing difficult and complex change.
- Successful initiation and facilitation of strategic partnership working and alliances.
- A good understanding of the health and social care management environment in Wales and of roles and responsibilities within it.
- Developing an organisational culture that promotes clinical engagement in decision making and leading continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies.
- The Safety and standards agenda.
- An understanding of the principles of Public Health Medicine that are relevant to, and underpin the work of the LHB.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Medical professional
- Unblemished registration with GMC
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Post graduate medical qualifications
- Further evidence of management training and a commitment to ongoing professional development
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Must be or have been a practising GP or worked at Medical Consultant level.
- Clinical Governance.
- Medical Management
- Significant organisational change experience / managing difficult and complex change.
- Successful initiation and facilitation of strategic partnership working and alliances.
- A good understanding of the health and social care management environment in Wales and of roles and responsibilities within it.
- Developing an organisational culture that promotes clinical engagement in decision making and leading continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies.
- The Safety and standards agenda.
- An understanding of the principles of Public Health Medicine that are relevant to, and underpin the work of the LHB.
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).
