Associate Medical Director (County)

Job Overview

The Trust is seeking an Associate Medical Director for County Hospital (Care Group level) who can demonstrate a commitment to team working and shared responsibility for the overall strategy plans and performance of County Hospital. The successful candidate will work with the Associate Deputy Chief Operating Officer (County Hospital) and Director of Nursing - Operations (County Hospital) to deliver services which meet quality and access standards, operational efficiency of clinical pathways, cost effective models of care and effective governance.

As the Associate Medical Director of County Hospital will be a member of the Trust’s Executive Management team and will support the achievement of the Trust’s strategic objectives and goals by providing strong and effective leadership. The responsibility will be to deliver through the triumvirate leadership together with the Care Group Director of Operations and Care Group Director of Nursing (County Hospital).

You will be expected to provide proactive and visible leadership. Leadership will span four key areas: service leadership, people and personal leadership, quality leadership and collaborative leadership.

All senior leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and, when necessary, to take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.

Main duties of the job

• Proactively and positively contribute to the successful overall performance of the Trust.
• Deliver excellent levels of customer service to all patients/visitors and staff at the Trust.
• Develop effective ways of working and create strong partnerships and relationships with all stakeholders to support the implementation of the Government’s policies on Health.
• Develop an organisational culture that fosters collaborative working among all staff groups, to ensure a focused commitment to delivering quality services and outcomes.
• Act as an advocate for the Trust and its contribution to the Health Service arena through creating effective partnerships and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Comply with corporate governance structure in keeping with the principles and standards set out by the Trust.
• Support the Trust culture of collaborative, flexible cross-team working and commitment to delivering quality services and outcomes, which support the Government’s policies on public health.
• Taking a lead for the transformation and strategic vision of the major strategic programmes in conjunction with Care Group teams
• Proactively, meaningfully and consistently demonstrate the Trust Values in your everyday practice, decision making and interactions with patients and colleagues
  
  
  

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the management of the County Hospital resources and for the overall performance of its services to patients.
• Lead the service strategy for the clinical services working with the Care Group Triumvirates, CBU Medical Directors, and Clinical Directors across the Care Groups.
• Ensure that the clinical governance processes are embedded across County Hospital and working effectively from ward/department to the Care Group Boards.
• Provide clinical advice and clinical assurance as an active member of the Executive Management Team of the Trust
• Escalate any issues and concerns to the Executive team and communicate the mitigating actions that the County Hospital triumvirate have taken.
• Provide oversight of the performance of the County Hospital services from a quality, operational and financial perspective alongside other members of the team.
• Provide oversight of the medical workforce arrangements across County Hospital in conjunction with Care Group colleagues
• Contribute to the development of the overall workforce plan for County Hospital, looking at clinically appropriate ways of blending professional boundaries, establishing new roles within the MDT in support of rotas.
  
  
  

There will be other main responsibilities that link to Service Leadership, Service delivery, Service Improvement and Transformation and Delivery of High-Quality Patient Care and Performance which will be detailed in the job description.

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualified Clinical Practitioner at senior level e.g. Medical Consultant / Nurse Consultant / Consultant Clinical Scientist.
• Appropriate Royal College Membership or Fellowship.
• Full registration with GMC / relevant Professional Body.
• Speciality qualifications or specialty accreditation.
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development; including evidence of leadership or management development
  
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Management Qualification
  
  
  

Personal Qualities

Essential Criteria

• Leads by example. Exemplary personal standards of conduct and role model of the Trust’s core values and behaviours.
• Willingness to accept that the wider interests of the Trust and/or the health community may at times require compromise.
• Commitment to implementation and strengthening of clinical governance
• Demonstrable commitment to, and focus on, delivering safe and excellent patient care.
• Highly credible across a range of audiences.
• Tenacity: demonstrates high levels of selfbelief, confidence, drive, enthusiasm, passion to succeed, resilience and stamina to achieve goals and see things through.
• High level of work organisation.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent judgement. Makes evidence based decisions.
• Able to make rational decisions in the face of adversity.
• High degree of political awareness.
• Displays innovative and lateral thinking.
• Displays innovative and lateral thinking.
• High degree of self-awareness and openness to self-improvement.
• Acts with high levels of personal honesty, integrity and loyalty.
• Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions.
• Inspires shared purpose.
• Leads with care and compassion.
• Sensitive to the concerns and needs of individuals, diverse groups and organisations to connect, collaborate and have a positive impact.
• Respects and supports equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Courageous.
• Ability to travel between Trust sites and within the Region as required for the role.
  
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous successful clinical leadership / clinical management experience, at a senior level.
• Demonstrable track record of advancement and development of clinical interest and services, including delivery of performance targets.
• Extensive senior clinical management experience within an Acute NHS Trust.
• Proven experience of successfully working across organisational boundaries and/or with networks.
• Proven successful track record in: o Leading a range of different services; o Leading and sustaining transformational change and service / quality improvement within a complex organisation; o Developing and translating business and service strategy into operational delivery; o Managing risk; o Delivery of key targets; o Managing large operating budgets, controlling spend/costs and delivering financial surplus; o Leading and performance-managing teams and individuals. o Building and maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. CV / Interview/ References The best joined-up care for all o Interpreting relevant legislation and organisational policy
  
  
  

Essential Criteria

Skills, Ability and Knowledge

• Understanding of the provision and delivery of health care services and of Government strategy and plans for modernising health care.
• Thorough knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the National Health Service and it’s inter-relationship with other agencies.
• Understanding of the implications for medical staff of the modernisation agenda
• Extensive knowledge of clinical audit, Research and Development and evidence-based practice.
• Awareness of the NHS England/Improvement agenda at a national, regional and local level
• Highly skilled at critically evaluating complex and sensitive information to make decisions, plans and develop concepts.
• Strong skills in involving individuals and engaging the team for service delivery and improvements
• High analytical and numeracy skills.
• Strong financial management, business, and service planning skills
• Well-developed / strong information technology skills.
• Highly developed skills in report writing
• Highly developed communications skills.
• Ability to communicate a compelling and credible vision for the future.
• Ability to provide clarity on objectives, on expectations and on outcomes.
• Strong skills in involving individuals and engaging the team for service delivery and improvements.
• Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovative solutions.
• Ability to achieve consistently good results in an inclusive and collaborative manner.
• Able to hold others to account and champion a just and learning culture.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
• Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables; including the ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Able to balance own plans and priorities with those of the service and other team members. Able to balance competing priorities.
• Ability to ‘broad scan’ to keep abreast of developments in the Health Care sector
• Ability to work strategically within the Care Group, across the Trust and across the system to make links, share risks and collaborate effectively.
• Ability to maintain confidence, always
• Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner.
• Able to secure and retain the trust and confidence of others including clinicians, managers, staff, patients, relatives and users of services) by behaving in an open, ethical and professional manner.
• Knowledge and skill to build workforce capability to meet future needs / challenges. Promotes opportunities for others to contribute and grow.
• Understands the need to deliver short term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance).
• Ability to adapt personal style to impact and influence others and gain support to achieve Care Group and organisational goals.