Regional Medical Director and Chief Clinical Information Officer

Regional Medical Director and Chief Clinical Information Officer

NHS England North West is recruiting a Regional Medical Director, offering a rare and high-impact opportunity for an exceptional clinical leader to shape the future of care across one of the country's most complex and ambitious health systems.

This role comes at a pivotal time as the region implements a new operating model with strengthened accountability, placing senior clinical leadership at the forefront of designing and delivering an exciting future for our staff, partners and communities.

As Regional Medical Director, you will provide strategic, visible and authoritative clinical leadership across three large Integrated Care Systems as they move from recovery towards stabilisation. You will ensure services are safe, sustainable and continually improving, while also driving the transformation required to meet future needs. Working across all directorates, you will identify providers and services requiring improvement or targeted support, and ensure the medical workforce is equipped with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time to deliver high-quality care.

You will work in close partnership with the Regional Chief Nursing Officer to implement NHS England's new strategy for quality and the Modern Service Frameworks, ensuring that quality remains the region's key organising principle. Alongside the Regional Chief Delivery and Transformation Officer, you will ensure that all improvement and transformation initiatives are clinically led and grounded in the needs of patients and staff.

A critical part of the role will also be leading the region's collective ambition around research, innovation and life sciences, working with Health Innovation Networks to accelerate the spread of best practice and maximise opportunities to transform care.

As a member of the regional executive team, you will provide professional support to the Regional Director and contribute to the delivery of NHS England's national and regional objectives. You may also lead or support national initiatives relevant to your portfolio.

All NHS England Regional Medical Director and Chief Clinical Information Officer personnel must hold SC level security clearance. This requires five years continuous UK residency, or, in some cases, three years continuous UK residency with additional overseas checks.

• First in class leadership skills from a breadth of disciplines, a visionary and strategic thinker

• Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
• Medically qualified with current licence to practice

• Significant experience of operating at board level and a substantial track record of delivering results in very complex high-profile environments

• Demonstrable technical understanding of NHS providers, commissioners and systems, the financial processes they require for success, and the regulatory/control environment in which they operate