Clinical Lead Resident Medical Workforce

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The closing date is 04 October 2026

The Clinical Lead for Medicine Division Locally Employed Workforce will provide visible clinical leadership, oversight and advocacy for locally employed doctors across the Medicine Division. The post holder will support the development of a consistent, high-quality experience for locally employed doctors, ensuring that doctors in these roles are effectively inducted, supported, supervised, developed and integrated within clinical teams.

The role will work closely with Chiefs of Service, Clinical Leads, General Managers, Medical Staffing, Medical Education, Guardian of Safe Working, rota teams, HR colleagues to improve retention, pastoral support, governance, workforce planning and professional development for locally employed doctors.

Provide divisional clinical leadership for locally employed doctors, ensuring they are recognised as a valued and integral part of the medical workforce.

Act as a point of contact and escalation for themes affecting locally employed doctors, including supervision, wellbeing, role clarity, training opportunities and professional development.

Promote an inclusive culture in which locally employed doctors are supported to contribute to safe, effective, patient-centred care.

Support supervisors and clinical teams to provide appropriate clinical supervision, regular feedback and timely escalation of concerns.

Champion fair and consistent access to educational, governance, audit and quality improvement opportunities.

Work with Medical Education, Medical Staffing and specialty teams to develop and maintain a consistent divisional induction process for locally employed doctors.

Ensure locally employed doctors receive clear information about their role, responsibilities, supervision arrangements, escalation routes, rota expectations and access to Trust systems.

Support the development of clinical teaching, simulation, audit, quality improvement and portfolio opportunities appropriate to locally employed doctor roles.

Encourage engagement with appraisal, revalidation requirements and career development pathways, including progression into training, SAS roles or other career routes where appropriate.

Promote attendance at relevant governance, morbidity and mortality, teaching and departmental meetings

Support divisional oversight of the locally employed doctor workforce, including establishment, vacancies, turnover, deployment, supervision and safe staffing risks.

Work with operational, HR and medical staffing colleagues to improve recruitment processes, role descriptions, onboarding, contract clarity and retention of locally employed doctors.

Contribute to medical workforce planning discussions, ensuring locally employed doctor roles are appropriately considered within specialty workforce models.

Support services to identify where locally employed doctor posts require clearer governance, supervision, rota alignment or educational support.

Advise on opportunities to improve the experience of locally employed doctors and reduce avoidable reliance on temporary staffing where substantive roles would better support service sustainability.

Ensure themes affecting locally employed doctors are appropriately represented within divisional and Trust governance, workforce and quality forums, including Divisional Board and Medical Professionals Workforce and Professional Issues Meeting

Promote adherence to Trust policies, statutory and mandatory training, appraisal…