Site Medical Director | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Hydref 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £109,725 - £145,478 Dependant on experience |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Ashton under Lyne, OL6 9RW |
| Cwmni: | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7535891/245-MEDCSMD-10-25 |
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Location:Either Stockport NHS Foundation Trust or Tameside & Glossop IC FT (travel between sites required)
Grade:Consultant (Full time, 10 PAs plus additional clinical work)
Are you an experienced clinical leader ready to shape the future of healthcare across Stockport and Tameside & Glossop?
We are seeking a dynamic and visionarySite Medical Directorto join our senior leadership team, working collaboratively across two forward-thinking NHS Foundation Trusts. This is a unique opportunity to drive clinical excellence, champion patient safety, and foster innovation in a newly strengthened partnership.
As Site Medical Director, you will:
• Provide strong, visible leadership to medical and dental staff, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care.
• Be accountable for delivering the Trusts’ clinical and medical engagement strategies, supporting both local and national objectives.
• Deputise for the Chief Medical Officer, offering expert advice and operational support across a range of strategic activities.
• Lead on patient safety, quality improvement, and learning from incidents, embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
• Oversee medical appraisal, revalidation, and professional development, ensuring compliance with GMC requirements.
• Champion compassionate and inclusive leadership, promoting equality, diversity, and a culture of speaking up.
• Support financial management and efficiency programmes, working closely with divisional teams.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and learning from incidents
§ Work closely with the Executive Teams to embed a patient safety culture throughout the Trust’s and associated sites.
§ Disseminate best practice and promote governance including clinical audit, research, service improvement and learning from safety incidents.
§ Engage in activity to develop and implement the quality improvement strategy to ensure consistent delivery of healthcare that is safe, effective, person-centred, timely, efficient and equitable.
§ Put in place the governance arrangements that will enable us to deliver our patient services in the safest possible way.
§ Promote a culture committed to learning from complaints, incidents, audit, research, and development.
§ Regularly review quality and safety, governance and risk, operational performance, and other statutory and mandatory key performance indicators at site level to ensure all areas are performing and that risk is escalated through approved pathways to the Joint Executive team and Board.
§ Contribute to the development of the Combined Quality Strategy.
Appraisal and Revalidation
§ Hold delegated responsibility from the Chief Medical Officer for ensuring that all doctors with a prescribed connection to the organisation undertake a high quality and consistent form of annual medical appraisal to support the process of medical revalidation.
§ Responsible for ensuring that all appraisers have completed accredited training and receive updates as required.
§ Lead on the Trust’s delivery of the consultants’ annual appraisal cycle, in line with the Trust medical appraisal policy and GMC revalidation requirements.
§ With the support of the Responsible Officer and the Workforce team, lead on resolving issues relating to the performance and misconduct of medical staff for the site and, when necessary, the implementation of Maintaining High Professional Standards.
Infection Control
§ Work with the Chief Nurse (DiPC), to oversee the control of infection prevention and control policies and their implementation together with the Infection Prevention & Control teams.
§ Challenge inappropriate clinical hygiene practice as well as antibiotic prescribing decisions working with the infection control teams.
§ Assess the impact of all existing and new policies and plans on infection and make recommendations for change.
Trust-wide Job Planning
§ Oversee the consistent application of job planning principles working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, Divisional Directors and Divisional Medical Directors and Medical Staffing Teams.
§ Support Divisional Medical Directors in the job planning process and escalate inconsistencies to the Chief Medical Officer as required.
Leadership and People Management
§ Support and act on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer in handling concerns about the performance or behaviour of doctors and dentists.
§ Actively promote compassionate, inclusive leadership together with the Trust’s values, and culture of the organisation, through appropriate personal behaviour and development. Implement relevant policies.
§ Take such action as may be necessary in disciplinary matters in accordance with procedures laid down by the Trust.
§ Participate where necessary in the handling of performance management processes.
§ Take responsibility for your own performance and take action to address identified personal development areas
§ Provide visible and effective leadership for all medical staff on site, promoting continuous professional development, medical education and appraisal and monitoring individual performance.
§ Use feedback, (e.g. from the national staff survey, GMC survey, etc), to improve and enhance the experience of medical staff at all grades across the organisation, ensuring they are engaged and empowered.
§ Promote a culture of speaking up where concerns are addressed, action is taken to manage concerns, poor behaviour in any form is challenged and doctors believe their voices are heard in decision making
§ Develop the medical staff cohort to consistently demonstrate the Trust values
§ Promote the Trust’s policies on ‘equality of opportunity’, and the promotion of ‘good relations’ through his/her own actions, and ensure that these policies are adhered to by staff for whom he/she has responsibility.
§ Act as the representative of the Chief Medical Officer on Trust Consultant appointments committees.
§ Be the named Acting Chief Medical Officer when the Chief Medical Officer is on leave, undertaking all essential internal and external activity including attendance at Board level committees, if required.
Financial Management
§ As part of the senior leadership Team deliver a balanced budget each year, including agreed cost improvement plans for the budget(s) managed and supporting those within the service areas.
§ Actively work with Divisional Medical Directors to develop Trust Efficiency schemes, encouraging them to work with Divisional Management teams to lead and take forward transformation/efficiency schemes
General
§ Participate in the Trust appraisal process and work towards meeting identified development needs.
This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Oct 2025