Chief Registrar | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,923 - £55,329 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6229965/361-R2R-2237-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated trainee physician (ST4 or above) with an interest in leadership and management to join East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust as chief registrar in General Medicine (aligned with your parent specialty). There is one 12 month fixed term vacancy to start 7thAugust 2024 or 4thSeptember 2024. The chief registrar role provides senior higher specialty trainees with the opportunity to develop valuable skills in leadership and management, and gives them a minimum of 40% protected time to put these skills into practice by developing initiatives that address local challenges. Chief registrars have a tangible impact on service improvement, workforce transformation, engagement and morale, and education and training, and work to deliver better outcomes for patients, colleagues and organisations.
Providing a ‘bridge’ between the junior doctor workforce, senior clinical leaders and managerial staff to improve engagement. Quality Improvement (QI) and service development/redesign to improve outcomes for patients, for example co-ordination of medical care. Planning, developing and improving the quality of education and training activities, and supporting/motivating other trainees.Involvement in workforce planning and transformation, and the deployment of medical staff and allied health professionals to meet healthcare challenges. Working across teams and boundaries to engage stakeholders and influence change.There is significant autonomy for individual chief registrars to use their leadership and management skills to address a wide variety of challenges faced by their organisations.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
The chief registrar role is a senior leadership and management role for higher specialty trainee doctors. The role allows a minimum of 40% protected time to develop and implement local initiatives focusing on, for example, service improvement, workforce transformation, engagement and morale, and education and training. Chief registrars benefit from access to a bespoke leadership and management development programme provided by the RCP, which commences in August/September 2024.
The chief registrar will ideally report to and be mentored by the medical director, a nominated deputy, or other senior clinical leader. The mentor role requires a minimum time commitment of monthly meetings with the chief registrar, and this commitment should be taken into account when nominating a suitable mentor. The chief registrar will also have a named educational supervisor for their role, who may or may not be the same as their clinical supervisor. There will be formal educational oversight of the role, with an induction, educational agreement, personal development plan and regular appraisals.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024