Divisional Medical Director

The Divisional Medical Director at Elysium Healthcare is a critical role focusing on clinical expertise, leadership, and collaboration to ensure service users' meaningful recovery and positive outcomes. The successful candidate will report to the Chief Medical Officer and be a senior medical leader at Elysium, providing strategic, professional, and clinical leadership. Responsibilities include influencing organizational strategy, shaping future models of care, and driving the highest standards of clinical excellence. The role provides an opportunity to impact clinical strategy, service quality, workforce development, and organizational performance across a diverse healthcare portfolio. Candidates must have senior clinical leadership credentials, GMC registration, and a track record in complex healthcare services and multidisciplinary team leadership. A commitment to delivering exceptional care is essential.

Join Elysium Healthcare, where clinical expertise, compassionate leadership and collaboration come together to help service users achieve meaningful recovery and positive outcomes. As Divisional Medical Director, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the quality, safety and future direction of care across a diverse portfolio of services.

Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, you'll be one of Elysium's most senior medical leaders, providing strategic, professional and clinical leadership across the division. As the senior medical voice, you'll influence organisational strategy, shape future models of care and drive the highest standards of clinical excellence, governance and patient safety.

This is a rare opportunity for an accomplished medical leader to influence clinical strategy, service quality, workforce development and organisational performance across a complex and diverse healthcare portfolio. You'll work in partnership with operational, nursing and multidisciplinary leaders to drive innovation, improve outcomes and support the continued development of high-quality services that change lives.

Alongside your contribution to strategic decision-making, you'll lead and develop a highly engaged and future-focused medical workforce. Through workforce planning, talent development and succession management, you'll create the conditions for doctors to thrive, grow and deliver exceptional care.

We're looking for a credible and influential senior clinician with experience operating at executive or near-executive level. You'll bring a track record of leading complex healthcare services, improving quality and performance, delivering transformation and building high-performing multidisciplinary teams. Most importantly, you'll share our commitment to delivering great healthcare and helping service users on their recovery journey achieve their fullest potential.

Provide visible and influential medical leadership across the division, shaping strategy, advising senior leaders and ensuring clinical excellence remains at the heart of decision-making. You'll champion innovative models of care, drive strategic priorities and influence the future direction of services.

Lead a culture of quality, safety and continuous improvement across the division. You'll provide oversight of clinical governance, regulatory compliance and patient safety, ensuring services consistently deliver outstanding standards of care and achieve positive outcomes for service users.

Lead the development of a high-performing, engaged and future-focused medical workforce. You'll drive workforce planning, recruitment, succession planning and professional development, while fostering a culture of clinical excellence, collaboration and leadership.

Work in partnership with operational and clinical leaders to deliver safe, effective and sustainable services. You'll use clinical insight and performance data to improve outcomes, optimise resources and support the effective delivery of divisional objectives.

Shape the future of services through innovation, transformation and service redesign. You'll ensure clinical evidence, emerging best practice and national priorities are translated into meaningful improvements that enhance quality, experience and outcomes.

Promote innovation, education and continuous learning across the division. You'll build strong partnerships with healthcare, academic and professional organisations, represent Elysium externally and help advance clinical practice and leadership development.

You'll be an accomplished and influential medical leader with the credibility, experience and strategic vision to shape healthcare at scale. You'll combine strong clinical leadership with the ability to drive transformation, develop high-performing teams and deliver exceptional outcomes for service users.

Other Requirements: This role requires flexibility to work across multiple locations and attend meetings as needed, including occasional commitments outside normal working hours, with regular travel between sites and, where applicable, a valid UK driving licence.

At Elysium Healthcare, we recognise that exceptional care starts with exceptional people. That's why we offer a comprehensive reward and benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, professional growth and future aspirations.

Where you will be working: This role is remote, but includes frequent travel to North or South sites dependant on role applied for.

Elysium Healthcare is a leading independent provider of mental health, neurological, learning disability, autism, children, and education services in the UK. With over 8,000 colleagues and more than 80 services across England and Wales, Elysium focuses on delivering high-quality care and outcomes for its service users. Part of Ramsay Health Care, Elysium is part of a global network spanning 10 countries with over 86,000 employees, offering various opportunities for professional development and collaboration. Elysium Healthcare is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment practices and emphasizes promoting and safeguarding service users' welfare.

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