Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Management
- Grade
- Medical Leaders Level 1
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (Applications would be considered for less than 10 sessions)
- Job ref
- 990-LON-6818451-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington house
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,000 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Medical Director, System Improvement and Professional Standards
Medical Leaders Level 1
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Deputy Medical Director for System Improvement & Professional Standards is a key leadership role in the regional health system, with responsibility, in conjunction with other leaders from across the professional spectrum, for delivery of high-quality clinical services for the region’s population, in line with NHS and other governmental priorities. The primary aim is to secure ongoing improvement in clinical outcomes and the experience of care for the population.
Main duties of the job
- Supporting to deliver statutory duties related to Performers’ List applications/registrations, appraisal and revalidation and in the management of individual practitioner performance cases.
- Provision of clinical leadership and assurance, co-commissioning and strategic change.
- Provision of clinical leadership and advice within the organisation for example advice to the complaints team, patient safety team, safeguarding, primary care commissioning, clinical networks and clinical senate.
- Provision of clinical leadership and advice to external stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Support the MD SIPs in the following:
Exhibit clinical leadership and influence across the whole system of care spanning primary, community, secondary, and specialised tertiary services such that improvements in the quality, safety, and experience of care are enhanced in all spheres, engaging clinicians at all levels in provision of best value care.
Strategic
- To provide clear clinical leadership on using innovative approaches and aligning tools and levers to support the improvement of outcomes for patients to drive up the quality of care.
Leadership
- To promote equality and diversity and the reduction of inequalities in all the activities of NHS England.
- To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Medical Practitioner with at least 5 years post registration experience
- Member or Fellow of relevant Royal College or Faculty
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post graduate diploma, or master’s degree
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing clinical risks and quality in a senior clinical leadership role
- Senior level NHS experience of individual practitioner performance including case management, case investigation and complaints
- Senior level experience of appraisal and revalidation including understanding of responsible officer regulations
- Experience of working with challenged primary care practices or provider trusts
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Experience of interfacing with external agencies at a senior level
- Knowledge of Medical revalidation processes and policies
- Expert knowledge of the commissioning and provision of healthcare
- Good understanding of health system dynamics and policy
- Knowledge of best practice on quality in healthcare
- Experience of working with whole systems, STPs and Providers
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with the Care Quality Commission, HEE, GMC and Medical Royal Colleges
Skills
Essential criteria
- High degree of emotional intelligence and self- awareness - resilient
Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities as required
- The ability to motivate and lead multi-disciplinary, multi-site teams in achieving ambitious and challenging targets.
- The ability to lead a diverse group of people in a large complex organisation through significant change.
- The capacity to think strategically and have the ability to analyse and solve highly complex problems, finding new solutions and breaking new ground where required.
- Political acumen, with an ability to understand the culture, climate and politics within the NHS; be attuned to the sensitivities of different stakeholder interests within a region in particular, and work sensitively to overcome the differing positions and interests of these.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of being a Responsible Officer or Deputy
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work
- Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Graham Boullier
- Job title
- Head of Professional Standards
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07833406422
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