Chief Registrar - Medicine | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,329 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2025 |
| Location: | Slough, SL2 4HL |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7163405/151-WPHSCF-21 |
Summary
Are you a passionate and motivated higher specialty trainee ready to take on a senior leadership challenge? We are excited to invite applications for the prestigious Chief Registrar role – a unique and highly rewarding opportunity to develop strategic leadership skills while making a meaningful impact on patient care, workforce wellbeing, and service innovation.
This role offers a minimum of 40% protected time away from clinical duties, enabling you to focus on leading and delivering high-impact local initiatives.
As Chief Registrar, you will drive improvements in key areas such as:
• Service transformation and redesign
• Workforce planning and morale
• Education and training development
• Staff engagement and wellbeing
You will act as a key liaison between the junior doctor workforce, senior clinical leaders, and management teams—bridging the gap and influencing positive, system-level change across the organisation.
In addition, you will be enrolled in a bespoke, nationally recognised leadership and management development programme delivered by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), beginning in August/September 2025. This structured programme provides the tools, mentorship, and network to help you thrive as a future leader in the NHS.
This is a career-defining opportunity for doctors looking to broaden their impact, contribute to healthcare innovation, and build the leadership capabilities essential for consultant-level roles and beyond.
As a Chief Registrar, you will take on a pivotal leadership role, helping to shape the future of patient care and medical education. With a minimum of 40% protected time for non-clinical work, this is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on leadership experience and drive meaningful change.
Your responsibilities will include acting as a key link between junior doctors, senior leaders, and managers to foster collaboration and engagement. You will lead quality improvement initiatives, enhance education and training, support workforce planning, and influence service redesign across the organisation.
All activities should placepatient safety and high-quality, compassionate careat their core, in line with the principles of theFuture Hospital Commissionreport:Future Hospital – Caring for Medical Patients(2013).
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We brought together Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2014.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
This prestigious leadership opportunity is open to doctors currently holding a National Training Number (NTN) and enrolled in a medical specialty training programme, ideally one that includes Internal Medicine. While participation in the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Chief Registrar Leadership and Management Development Programme is primarily designed for those in internal medicine-related specialties, enrolment is not strictly limited to these pathways.
The Chief Registrar role may be undertaken either in-programme or out-of-programme (for training [OOPT] or experience [OOPE]), depending on individual training needs and local workforce considerations.
Where appropriate, any necessary extension to the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) will be negotiated and agreed upon locally, with the involvement of the Head of School. For OOPT arrangements, approval from the relevant Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) will be required.
Prospective applicants must discuss their interest in the Chief Registrar role with both their Educational Supervisor and Training Programme Director (TPD) at an early stage. Formal permission to apply must be obtained from the TPD prior to submitting an application.
In line with GMC requirements, the Chief Registrar post must be undertaken at a site that is GMC-approved for training in the applicant’s specialty, ensuring the role continues to support their broader development as a future consultant and clinical leader.
This advert closes on Thursday 8 May 2025