Deputy Chief Medical Officer

Working closely with, and reporting directly to, the Chief Medical Officer, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) will help to deliver the Chief Medical Officer's extensive portfolio.

This will include, but not be limited to, providing visible professional medical leadership across Sherwood Forest Hospitals and supporting the Divisional Clinical Directors, divisional triumvirates and Heads of Service in matters relevant to patient safety, patient experience and the quality agenda, while ensuring the best use of scarce resources. The post-holder will model inclusive leadership and actively contribute to a culture of belonging, psychological safety and equity of opportunity across the medical workforce.

The role will include guiding the CMO's Office in strategic and operational decision-making, deputising at Board and sub-Board level, and chairing various committees linked to the CMO's portfolio and the strategic direction of the Trust.

There will be an opportunity to discuss the composition of the portfolio following the appointment, depending on the successful candidate's experience and professional development needs. The work of the CMO's Office is under ongoing review as the portfolio evolves. This may require changes to the successful candidate's portfolio over time.

Main duties of the job

Provide senior medical leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe and effective patient care across the Trust services.

Lead and strengthen Trust-wide quality improvement activity, with a focus on patient safety, clinical outcomes and patient experience.

Provide executive oversight of clinical governance arrangements, including incident management, learning from deaths, complaints handling and serious incident processes.

Provide executive oversight of clinical governance arrangements, including incident management, learning from deaths, complaint handling and serious incident processes.

Chair or deputise for relevant Trust committees and forums linked to the Chief Medical Officer's portfolio. This includes chairing the Radiation Safety Committee and the Learning from Deaths forum.

Ensure compliance with Caldicott principles, safeguarding duties and relevant regulatory frameworks.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Consultant or senior SAS doctor with at least 5 years' post CCT (or equivalent) experience, including evidence of senior clinical leadership
• Full Registration with GMC without any conditions or restrictions on licence to practise

Desirable

• Master's degree or equivalent in clinical leadership
• Membership of FMLM

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Experience of senior clinical leadership at service or Divisional level within an acute Trust for at least 2 years
• Substantial knowledge of clinical governance
• Experience of working with patient groups and wider external stakeholders, including engagement in service change and/or improvement
• Experience of job planning, medical appraisal, and the management of performance concerns

Desirable

• Involvement in initiatives at national and/or regional level
• Experience and knowledge of delivery of digital innovations
• Experience as Case Investigator or Case Manager
• Experience of MHPS
• IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information and develop and write Board reports

Communication & Relationship Skills

Essential

• Experience of managing patient complaints

Analytical & Judgement Skills

Essential

• Experience of audit and audit tools

Communication & Relationship Skills

Desirable

• Undertaken advanced communication course

About the employer

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.