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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Contract
Permanent: Consultant contract
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Additionally, the CMO will undertake 1-2PA a week clinical work in services.)
Job ref
354-CO-21474
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Portland House
Town
Worthing
Salary
Dependent on experience
Closing
25/07/2024 23:59
Interview date
27/08/2024

Employer heading

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Chief Medical Officer

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Our new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) will play a pivotal role in enabling the delivery of the highest standard of healthcare to patients. They will be working with firm foundations, embedded by our previous CMO, ensuring our staff are supported to deliver outstanding care for our communities.

As an Executive Director, the CMO has a critical role on the Board, providing expert advice and support, as well as contributing to the strategic direction of the Trust and for the quality of service and care provided to our patients. We’re seeking someone who shares our passion to build and maintain the culture, capacity and capability required to meet the challenges we face in the years ahead and continue to deliver high-quality patient-centred care. The role offers the chance to not just shape this within the trust, but to work and engage across the wider local health and social care systems, and we are looking for someone who will want to be a role model for our values every single day.

Main duties of the job

The Chief Medical Officer is a full member of the Trust Board sharing corporate responsibility for the governance and performance of the Trust, its strategic direction and for meeting its objectives and targets. The post holder also has shared responsibility for developing an organisational climate which fosters genuine partnership with service users and carers, frontline staff and other statutory and non-statutory bodies in the development of socially inclusive, good quality mental health, social care and learning disabilities services.

The post holder will have specific responsibility for providing leadership to the medical staff, promoting excellent medical engagement, ensuring pharmaceutical advice and quality improvement to the Board; and the Caldicott Guardian.

The post holder will foster a culture of continuous improvement to improve the delivery of high quality care.

Additionally, the CMO will undertake 1-2PA a week clinical work in services.

Working for our organisation

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Working in Sussex:

·       Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there’s always new experiences to be enjoyed

·       Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London

·       With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We’d love you to join our organisation that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

·       70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

·       79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team

·       77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

See the attached ‘Partnership Perks’ document for details about our benefits package.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached information pack, which includes the job description and person specification, outlining the responsibilities of the role.

This is a substantive position, with a full time 37.5 hour per week working pattern. There will be a requirement to be based on site (Portland House) for part of the working week.

Please see attached job description for full details of roles and responsibilities.

 

Key assessment dates:

  • ·         Stakeholder Groups (virtual) - 22nd August 2024
  • ·         Panel Interviews (Portland House, Worthing) - 27th August 2024

To arrange an informal discussion, please contact Georgia Biddlecombe (Business Manager) at [email protected] 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current Consultant Psychiatrist status, certificate of specialist training and on the GMC specialist register for psychiatry
  • Registered and licensed to practice medicine in the UK
  • Approved responsible clinician and for section 12MHA
  • Responsible officer trained
  • Caldicott Guardian trained

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Recent experience of Clinical Director roles in more than one Mental Health Provider Trust clinically leading operations and transformation
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience in a senior position within the public or private sector
  • Working with NIHR or NICE in the creation of evidence for practice
  • Track record of delivering large scale change and knowledge of quality improvement methodologies and evidence
  • Extensive clinical experience as a consultant psychiatrist managing clinical complexity and co-morbidity
  • Medical Appraiser

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardStep into health

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Georgia Biddlecombe
Job title
Business Manager, Workforce & OD
Email address
[email protected]
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