Medical Director
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £99,532.00 to £131,964.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £99532.00 - £131964.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Plymouth, PL6 8DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9216-24-0728 |
Summary
Provide effective visible leadership for medical staff on both professional and managerial issues, through the clinical leadership structure (divisional chiefs, chiefs of service, service directors) - Ensure regular communication and meetings with medical staff, in conjunction with senior colleagues, ensuring they are engaged with the development and implementation of service plans and policies - Lead on the development and implementation of medical workforce plans - In line with national requirements, ensure arrangements are in place for appraisal, job planning, continuing professional development, re-licensing and revalidation of doctors where UHP is the prescribed body - Appraise Consultants and Doctors personally as required, and ensure a robust and transparent approach to job planning which takes into consideration the needs of the services. - Lead on resolving issues relating to concerns about the performance of medical staff and the implementation of misconduct procedures. - Manage and oversee the work of the Director of Medical Education, ensuring that UHP fulfils its role as a provider of high quality medical education Please refer to attached job description for an in depth description of the duties and responsibilities. Professional leadership 15 - Promote an organisational culture committed to learning from complaints, incidents, audit, research and development. 16 - Promote an organisational culture that facilitates teamwork in the design, management and delivery of clinical services, ensuring medical staff are both cognisant of and active in ensuring holistic models of care 17 - Ensure there is a system to work with the Chief Pharmacist on the development and implementation of prescribing policies for services that are clinically and cost effective 18 - Lead on Clinical Governance in support of the of the organisations overriding and ultimate focus on Quality and Safety, delivering strategies, systems and processes and ensuring the active participation of all medical staff. 19 - Build UHPs credibility in respect of research and development and enhance and encourage research based activity. 20 - Provide input and advice on any relevant initiatives that require a medical perspective for example implementation of recommendations from NICE, National Inquiries, external investigations etc. Statutory and corporate roles 21 - Be the Responsible Officer for revalidation of medical staff in accordance with Department of Health legislation ensuring that systems of clinical governance and appraisal are working and are appropriate for revalidation 22 - Carry out the legislative requirements of The Medical Profession (Responsible Officer) Regulations 2010 by ensuring that robust clinical governance systems are in place and to ensure the active participation of all staff in order to secure high standards of patient care. 23 - Lead on Mortality, using benchmark data to drive learning and action to manage and reduce patient mortality. 24 - Act as the hospitals Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs.