Deputy Medical Director - Quality and Governance

• Clinical Governance & Patient Safety Leadership: Champion the Trust-wide integration of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), while providing senior clinical oversight for complex professional standards (MHPS) and high-profile incident investigations.
• Regulatory Excellence & Compliance: Lead institutional readiness programs for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections to systematically improve and maintain quality ratings across all registered and virtual Trust domains.
• Modern Service Frameworks (MSFs): Direct the Trust-wide adoption of national MSFs, utilizing clinical data, mortality metrics, and peer benchmarking to eliminate unwarranted variation in high-volume, high-risk clinical pathways.
• Data Transparency & Accessibility: Drive corporate transparency by transforming complex safety and mortality data into accessible, front-line dashboards that empower clinical teams and ensure public accountability.
• Patient-Centric Co-Production: Oversee the structural evolution of the Patient & Public Voice Partnership, structurally shifting patient engagement from reactive feedback into systematic service co-design alongside patients and families.
• Executive Deputising & Strategic Representation: Actively partner with and deputise for the Chief Medical Officer, maintaining a senior, non-clinical medical presence on-site, chairing pivotal safety and mortality committees, and acting as Medical Co-ordinator during Major Incidents.

• Compassionate Leadership: Provide inclusive, professional, and visible leadership for medical, dental, and clinical staff across all Trust sites, serving as an active role model.
• Culture & Accountability: Pivot front-line teams away from a checklist compliance mindset toward a culture of continuous learning, psychological safety, and compassionate accountability.
• Line Management: Directly manage, mentor, and support the professional development of the Associate Medical Directors for Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety.
• Diversity Champion: Actively promote race, gender, and wider diversity across medical services, recruitment, and career development pathways.

• Policy Sign-Off: Take corporate responsibility for reviewing, approving, and signing Patient Group Directives (PGDs), clinical policies, and best-practice guidance.
• Performance & Incident Reviews: Conduct formal reviews into clinical performance, safety, and mortality, while actively driving Trust-wide learning from serious incidents and thematic reviews.
• Data Translation: Act as an analytical coach, translating complex safety metrics, mortality data, and CQC standards into actionable, front-line clinical behaviours.

• Workforce & Strategy: Partner with the CMO to embed front-line clinical opinions into corporate decision-making and advise on the Trusts overarching clinical and care quality strategies.
• MHPS Frameworks: Support the CMO and Divisional Directors with professional standard concerns, acting as Case Investigator or Case Manager for Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) investigations.
• External Representation: Serve as an ambassador for the Trust with external bodies, including the Integrated Care Board (ICB), universities, Royal Colleges, and the GMC.

Essential

• Full registration and license to practise with the GMC or GDC and inclusion on the Specialist Register. Be practicing at a Consultant, Specialist or Specialty Doctor level
• Successful leadership of a major clinical quality or patient safety portfolio at directorate or divisional level.
• Proven track record of leading a cross-boundary, multi-agency clinical pathway redesign initiative including experience of co-designing a clinical service or improvement initiative directly alongside patients and families, demonstrating a practical focus on patient experience
• Experience of translating complex clinical data, mortality metrics, and regulatory standards into front-line actions.
• Strong collaborative mindset, evidenced by experience of successfully building consensus to drive safety standards across teams.

Desirable

• Higher qualification in Medical Leadership, Healthcare Governance, or Quality Improvement
• Formal training in Human Factors, patient safety science, or advanced healthcare informatics
• Experience of utilising recognized Quality Improvement (QI) methodologies to solve complex clinical variation problems.