Chief Medical Officer

Job summary

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive and a key member of the Board, you will play a central role in ensuring we maintain the clinical innovation and excellence that is central to the fantastic care we provide to our patients.

We are seeking an outstanding and compassionate leader with the experience and ambition to deliver Royal Papworth's current and future priorities, providing visible and transformational leadership for our outstanding medical staff. Understanding of how to lead doctors in multi-faceted environments, oversee their development, plan their activity, support their research and champion their work is central to the role.

As a member of our board, you will ensure our decisions are centred on patient care and outcomes. You will work closely with the Chief Nursing Officer in relation to patient safety and clinical effectiveness, as well as being the executive lead for one of our six strategic aims - leading nationally and internationally in heart and lung care.

We are actively seeking candidates from a range of diverse and inclusive backgrounds who offer the leadership skills required. Whilst welcoming applications from all suitably experienced candidates, we wish to encourage applications from ethnic minority and female doctors. Applications will be considered on their merits.

Main duties of the jobThe post has responsibility for the key elements below:the leadership of, and management of professional issues associated with the medical workforce and the services provided by doctors. This includes all relevant operational developmental and strategic matters. Lead the effective management of medical staff and ensure that they deliver effective, safe and high-quality care to  conjunction with the Chief Nursing Officer the development and delivery of the Trust's Quality Strategy and accountable for the overall achievement of safety and quality metrics.as

the most senior doctor in the Trust, provide strong and effective medical leadership and advice to inform corporate  conjunction with the Chief Nursing Officer, ensure that the Trust's clinical strategy is viable and effectively implemented.ensure that the Trust delivers its corporate clinical targets, influencing and maintaining alignment, on the part of the Trust's medical workforce, with the Trust's goals and objectives.act

as 'responsible officer' in relation to the GMC'S revalidation requirements.work proactively to raise the profile of the Trust's reputation in the field of Cardio Thoracic medicine both nationally and internationally.contribute to the ICS clinical leadership forums, providing leadership and supporting our system partners in the reduction of healthcare inequalities and clinical improvements across end-to-end patient pathways.

About us Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their…