Divisional Medical Director - CommunityNHS

Job summary

Divisional Medical Director, Community Services

Equivalent of 4 PA's per week on the Consultant pay scale

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the newly established Community Services Division at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as our Divisional Medical Director.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced and inspirational medical leader to help shape, develop and lead a newly formed Division serving communities across St Helens, Knowsley, Halton, Southport, Formby and West Lancashire. The role offers the opportunity to influence the future direction of community healthcare, strengthen integration across health and care systems and champion the highest standards of patient care, quality and safety.

The newly established Community Services Division brings together a broad range of services delivered closer to people's homes and communities, creating a significant opportunity to improve patient outcomes, reduce health inequalities and develop innovative models of care in partnership with primary care, local authorities, voluntary sector organisations and NHS partners.

Interview date to be confirmed.

Main duties of the job

The role will be professionally accountable to the Chief Medical Officer. The post holder will work closely with the Divisional Nursing Director, Divisional Director of Operations and wider Community Services leadership team to provide strategic, professional and operational leadership across the Division. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe and effective services whilst driving continuous improvement in patient experience, clinical outcomes and professional standards.

Why this role?

This is more than a traditional medical leadership role. As Divisional Medical Director within a newly established Division, you will have a rare opportunity to shape medical leadership, influence service redesign, strengthen governance and quality arrangements, and create a culture where innovation, compassion and excellence thrive.

You will work as part of the Divisional Triumvirate to:

• Lead improvements in quality, patient safety and patient experience.
• Provide professional leadership for colleagues across Community Services.
• Develop highly engaged, high-performing clinical teams.
• Deliver quality improvement and transformation programmes.
• Strengthen partnerships across neighbourhoods, places and the wider health and care system.
• Ensure strong governance, assurance and risk management arrangements are in place.
• Support the development of innovative and sustainable models of community care

Job description

About you

We are seeking an experienced medical leader who can demonstrate:

• Specialist registration and experience as a General Practitioner.
• Significant experience of working with community services.
• A strong track record of delivering improvements in quality, patient safety and patient experience.
• Experience of working at senior level across complex healthcare organisations and systems.
• Exceptional leadership, engagement and influencing skills.
• Experience of managing change and leading service transformation.
• A commitment to developing community medical services.
• Strong partnership working skills across health, social care and voluntary sector organisations.
• The ability to inspire teams and create a culture of continuous improvement and clinical excellence.

You will be a credible practitioner and leader within community services and a passion for delivering outstanding care for patients and communities.

About us

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme