Overview

UHDB is looking for a dynamic, influential, motivated and improvement minded senior clinician to join the Surgery Divisional Management Team (DMT) to develop and deliver managerial and strategic support to the Division and wider Trust.

The DMD leadership role is a 3-year fixed term tenure with a renewable appointment process every 3 years with up to 4 Direct Clinical Care/Supporting Professional Activities in the successful candidate's chosen specialty.

The most important qualities we are looking for are someone with a passion for medical leadership and a drive to continually improve our clinical services.

You will work with the DMT quadrumvirate as well as our Executive Board to develop a strategy for the Division to become an outstanding service provider to patients across Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Essential Criteria

• GMC specialist registration and a full licence to practice
• Significant recent experience at a very senior level, with responsibility for operational delivery including clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets within strict financial controls.
• Knowledge of the key issues and complexity and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally, assess and describe impact on services
• The ability to solve complex problems, and be solution focused demonstrating a high level of persuasive and influencing skills
• A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
• Patient safety
• Professional medical leadership and leadership development
• Medical training and education
• Transformational change programme
• NICE guidelines – awareness and implementation
• CQC standards
• Strengthened medical appraisal and revalidation
• Clinical audit and effectiveness
• Clinical knowledge management
• Medical devices
• Clinical coding
• Liaison with trust R&D lead

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mark Lacey | Job title: Divisional Director | Email: aronvier.bola@nhs.net | Telephone: 01332 789031