Divisional Clinical Director - Medicine & Emergency Care Division

Job summary

The Divisional Clinical Director (DCD) role provides clinical leadership to the Division as a key member of the leadership triumvirate, working with the Divisional Operational Director and Divisional Nurse Director.

As DCD, you will have shared accountability for the leadership, management, and continuous improvement of the Division. This includes accountability for high quality patient care and safety, the delivery of agreed performance, financial, and workforce objectives, and ensuring that the Division aligns, and positively contributes, to the Trust's strategic aims and objectives.

The role provides professional and visible leadership for the medical workforce in the Division, establishing and maintaining effective working relationships and supporting a Trust-wide culture of interprofessional working to ensure the best environment for operational efficiency, high clinical standards and development of clinical services. The role supports transparent and effective job planning processes and, working closely with HR and the Trust's Responsible Officer, supports oversight of medical workforce capability, performance and behaviours.

The role is additional to the appointee's clinical role and is recognised by a management honorarium and 5 job planned PAs. We will be able to accommodate a clinical role for any medical or surgical specialty.

Main duties of the job

We're looking for a strategic operator and effective and considered communicator who is able to influence and enthuse all our people from ward to board room to system-wide partners. Whilst embedded in the Medical Leadership Structure you will, in close collaboration with the Divisional Operational Director and Divisional Nurse Director, have shared accountability for the leadership, management, and continuous improvement of the Division.

The post will encompass clinical quality improvement, to improve patient experience and outcomes, acting as the clinical voice and the conscience of the patients to ensure that all changes are happening smoothly and are not to the patient's detriment. This post will support medical engagement with change and will lead on professional oversight, strategy and development for your medical teams.

When required, you may be asked to deputise for the Medical Director at internal and external meetings.

About us

We provide a full range of District General services, also offering primary care through 4 GP practices, 9 surgeries between them. Our vision is exceptional care provided by exceptional people. Our mission is to bring our people, communities and partners together- providing patient care we can all be proud of and your energy and leadership will be critical to our success. It is an exciting time to join us as the pandemic has caused transformational service delivery with many projects accelerated across the Trust.

We are firmly rooted in the founding principles of the NHS, and we have built on this by 'Leading the Chesterfield Way' and with our Proud to CARE values: leading with care, openness, integrity and embedding an inclusive culture. We know people have a life and responsibilities outside of work and offer flexibility and a raft of support to care for your physical and mental well-being. This role is hugely important to us, and we look forward to you applying.

Date posted

25 March 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

166-MEC-7081902

Job locations

Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Calow, Chesterfield, S44 5BL

Job description Job responsibilities

The DCD reports to the Divisional Operational Director with professional accountability to the executive Medical Director. Full details and key result areas are provided in the job description however the role incorporates:

• Providing professional, senior clinical leadership across the Division, co-creating and embedding professional standards across the Division and wider Trust.
• As part of the Divisional Triumvirate leadership team, being responsible for the operational delivery of all Divisional services ensuring they are cost-effective, of high quality and meet all national standards.
• Leading on and delivering key strategic and operational programmes which will enable the on-going achievement of the Trust's and Division's objectives, working with local stakeholders, commissioners and other providers.
• Taking a lead role in the development and implementation of Clinical Services strategies across the Division to support Care Unit teams with services that have been identified as fragile or challenged.
• Contributing to capacity planning and service redesign ensuring staff are actively involved.
• Contributing to Divisional responsibility for financial viability and sustainability through effective budgetary management and supporting delivery of cost efficiency savings.
• Ensuring there is a robust workforce plan in place, identifying short and long term plans for workforce requirements and addressing such issues as recruitment and retention.
• For medical staff, ensuring systems are in place to meet the requirements of revalidation for medical staff and to ensure job plan reviews are effectively undertaken and are aligned to the needs of the service.
• Enabling a culture where colleagues feel they belong, actively advocating for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging to ensure everyone's voice is heard.
• Ensuring leaders and other operational staff employ a consistent and high quality approach to their work.
• Ensuring there is a clinical audit programme in place and to identify areas of practice that are to be subject to clinical audit.
• Ensuring that the Division delivers compliant performance for external and internally set standards.
• Ensuring risks and incidents identified during handling of an incident, complaint or concern are aligned to Trust governance and risk management systems and appropriate levels of investigation and action are undertaken within the agreed timescales.

Person Specification Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Assessed Professional clinical qualification (Masters or equivalent)
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment

Desirable

• Senior leadership qualification, formal training or equivalent experience
• Formal training or qualification in business management or equivalent experience
• Formal training or qualifications in Quality Assurance/Quality Governance or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Senior clinical management experience in a healthcare setting with speciality knowledge across a range of disciplines.
• Experience of leading service improvement projects and organisational change, whilst developing and maintaining high standards of quality.
• Evidence of appropriate relevant professional development.
• Experience of leading and directing senior clinical and non-clinical teams in achieving key performance indicators

Desirable

• Financial management and business management skills including the ability to set and manage budgets on a divisional level.
• Demonstrable experience of successful business planning and development of robust business cases
• Successful track record in achieving targets, both service and financial
• Experience of policy implementation and service development across a range of specialist acute services
• Involvement at a leadership level on issues related to clinical governance, monitoring and standard setting, including risk management and health and safety

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent and highly developed interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate and influence at all levels and across different specialities.
• Experience of leading and coaching teams, including recruitment and disciplinary issues with the ability to motivate others to achieve organisational objectives
• Ability to work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders including the public
• Ability to communicate, both written and verbally, in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive
• Able to deal with sensitive and complex issues
• Highly developed problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to write and produce regular complex reports and formulate policy
• Competent in the use of office IT systems
• Ability to oversee and interpret the performance targets of specialities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Calow, Chesterfield, S44 5BL

Employer's website

https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)