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Your Office Toronto; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

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Deputy Chief Medical Officer Job Description

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About
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff.

Job Overview
We are looking for an inspirational medical leader with a passion to deliver high quality patient care to join the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) team. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) will be required to deputise as required across the full range of CMO responsibilities.

This QEH-based post holder will lead on the development and improvement in quality of the Trust's job planning process, with the development of a consistency panel and team job planning professional standards, relating to timeliness of attendance and review for emergency department and inpatients, and referral pathways between specialties and to tertiary centres medical recruitment, workforce development and our medical leadership programme.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The Deputy Chief Medical Officer will take the lead with delegated authority from the CMO for agreed aspects of the CMO portfolio Trust wide. The DCMO will hold responsibility for the leadership and management of professional issues associated with the medical workforce and the services provided by doctors on their base site, working closely with and supporting the Divisional Medical Directors.

You Will

• Communicate complex and sensitive information concerning standards and governance practice.
• Provide advice and guidance to medical managers on matters relating to Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS.
• Deputise for the Chief Medical Officer where required and take a lead role in developing links between the CMOs office and the wider organization.
• Ensure that excellence in communication and engagement of staff, service users and stakeholders is at the centre of everything you do.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration
• Post graduate qualification in relevant specialty.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Evidence of leadership development. Minimum 3 years experience in senior medical leadership roles.

Skills And Experience

• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills.
• Demonstrable evidence of preparing and leading change management and proven record of successful delivery.

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.