Group Chief Medical Officer
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This is a significant and distinctive Board-level opportunity to shape the future of clinical services across a developing NHS Group.
As Group Chief Medical Officer, you will be a voting Board Director across both organisations, providing professional leadership to the medical workforce and playing a central role in shaping the next stage of the Groups development. You will lead on clinical quality, patient safety and clinical governance, championing excellence in care while supporting innovation, research and new models of service delivery.
Job description
We are seeking a senior medical leader with substantial experience at consultant level and a strong track record in clinical leadership and governance within a complex healthcare organisation. You will bring the ability to lead large-scale change, shape strategic direction and build collaborative relationships across organisational and system boundaries.
This is an opportunity to join an ambitious and evolving Group, working across acute, community and ambulance services, with a shared vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for patients and communities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Please see enclosed candidate brief for further details on the role.
Our executive search partners, Odgers, are supporting this process. To arrange a further discussion in confidence about this opportunity, please email Carmel Gibbons, Partner and Head of the Healthcare Practice via vicky.graham@odgers.com
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Medical graduate
- Higher medical professional qualification
- Postgraduate medical qualification
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Postgraduate qualifications in either medical education or clinical governance
Leadership Qualities
Essential
- Self-management
- Personal integrity
- Broad scanning
- Seizing the future
- Political astuteness
- Intellectual flexibility
- Drive for results
- Collaborative working
- Effective and strategic influencing
- Holding to account
- Drive for improvement
Experience
Essential
- Substantial clinical experience at consultant level
- Significant experience in medical management in a relevant healthcare organisation
Desirable
- Previous Medical Director experience
- Experience of managing postgraduate training
- Experience of leading a large complex organisation through significant change.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Capable of developing strategic plans, generating commitment to these plans and delivering change
- Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions
- Able to win 'hearts and minds', lead and motivate clinicians, managers and staff and to harness and nurture talent
- High levels of tenacity, drive, enthusiasm and resilience, to achieve goals and to see things through
About the employer
Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have been working in partnership since 2019, moving to a single Chief Executive and executive team in 2023 and establishing Boards and committees in common in 2024.
Together, we are building a Group model designed to deliver improved outcomes for patients, strengthen clinical sustainability and support collaborative working at scale across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight