Medical Director

Skylight Psychiatry is seeking an experienced Consultant to join the organisation as Medical Director. Reporting to the Clinical Team Lead, this senior leadership position offers the opportunity to shape the clinical strategy of a growing specialist mental health provider. Working as a key member of the Senior Management Team, the successful candidate will lead clinical quality and governance, support service development and innovation, provide expert clinical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, and help ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred neurodevelopmental services.,

The Medical Director is the senior medical and clinical leader at Skylight Psychiatry, responsible for providing strategic clinical leadership across the organisation. Key duties include overseeing clinical governance, quality, safety and risk management; developing and improving clinical services and pathways; supporting and developing clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams; ensuring compliance with CQC and professional standards; contributing to organisational strategy and decision-making;

and representing Skylight Psychiatry with external stakeholders. The postholder also maintains a clinical practice alongside their leadership responsibilities., The Medical Director is Skylight Psychiatry's senior medical and clinical leader at organisational level. The postholder will be an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist. Working as a key member of the Senior Management Team, the Medical Director will provide strategic clinical leadership across Skylight's services, ensuring that clinical quality, safety and patient outcomes remain central to organisational decision-making and service development.

The role will provide senior clinical input into clinical governance, quality and risk, service development and clinical strategy, while supporting and developing clinical leaders across the organisation., Strategic Medical & Clinical Leadership

• Act as the senior clinical leader across Skylight Psychiatry.
• Provide strategic clinical advice to the Managing Director, Senior Management Team and Board as required.
• Play an active role within the Senior Management Team, contributing to organisational strategy, priorities and decision-making.
• Develop and oversee Skylight's clinical strategy in line with organisational growth and service development.
• Provide senior clinical oversight and escalation where complex or significant clinical issues arise.
• Ensure clear and effective clinical leadership arrangements exist across individual services and pathways.
• Support, challenge and develop clinical leads, promoting appropriate clinical accountability and distributed leadership.
• Promote a culture in which high-quality, safe and evidence-based care is embedded throughout the organisation.

• Provide senior clinical leadership within Skylight's clinical governance arrangements and contribute actively to Clinical Governance meetings.
• Ensure effective clinical governance standards and systems operate across all services.
• Provide senior oversight of medical governance and professional standards across the organisation, ensuring appropriate arrangements for medical practice, accountability and escalation.
• Provide senior clinical input into organisational risk management, safeguarding, incidents, complaints and learning.
• Lead and contribute to clinical audit, quality assurance and outcome measurement.
• Ensure learning from audit, incidents, complaints, patient experience and other quality information translates into improvements in clinical practice.
• Support organisational readiness for CQC inspection and ensure services operate in accordance with relevant regulatory and professional standards.
• Promote continuous improvement, reflective practice and organisational learning.

• Provide senior clinical oversight of Skylight's existing clinical pathways.
• Lead the clinical development of new services and pathways as the organisation expands.
• Ensure clinical models, pathways and protocols are evidence-based, safe, effective and appropriate for the populations served.
• Work collaboratively with operational, quality, commissioning and other leaders to ensure clinical and operational models are aligned.
• Provide senior clinical input into tenders, commissioning opportunities and service mobilisation where required.
• Support innovation and appropriate use of technology and…