Divisional Medical Director - Medicine

Derby, England, United Kingdom

7/24/2025

UHDB is looking for a dynamic, influential, motivated and improvement minded senior clinician to join the Medicine Divisional Management Team (DMT) to develop and deliver managerial and strategic support to the Division and wider Trust.

Whilst the DMD leadership role is a 3 year fixed term tenure with a renewable appointment process every 3 years, the Trust is offering a substantive full-time appointment. This includes up to 4 Direct Clinical Care/Supporting Professional Activities in the successful candidates chosen specialty.

The most important qualities we are looking for is someone with a passion for medical leadership and drive to continually improve our clinical services.

You will work with the DMT quadrumvirate as well as our Executive Board to develop a strategy for the Division to become an outstanding service provider to patients across Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

• Patient safety
• Professional medical leadership and leadership development
• Medical training and education
• Transformational change programme
• NICE guidelines – awareness and implementation
• CQC standards
• Strengthened medical appraisal and revalidation
• Clinical audit and effectiveness
• Clinical knowledge management
• Medical devices
• Clinical coding
• Liaison with trust R&D lead
  
  

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts About Our Trust

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Deb Price Job title: Associate Director Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01332 785077

Divisional Director for Medicine: Helen Jenkinson [email protected], 07403 437130