Chief Medical Officer

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Chief Medical Officer to join our executive leadership team. This is a pivotal role responsible for shaping and driving the clinical strategy, ensuring the highest standards of care, and fostering a culture of excellence across the Trust.

The next CMO will lead the development and implementation of internal professional standards and work closely with acute and speciality medicine to strengthen relationships and improve capacity in general internal medicine. You will play a key role in addressing workforce challenges, including enhancing consultant engagement and optimising service resilience to provide effective seven-day cover., To encourage an open and transparent culture, working to ensure all medical staff behaviours are aligned to our values and culture; supporting innovation and development as well as facilitating the achievement of the highest standards of clinical practice, care and professional behaviour.

To act as the Trust Board Director for quality and safety in partnership with the Chief Nurse and ensure the medical workforce is fit to deliver high-quality care.

As a Trust Board member, you will share responsibility for developing and implementing the organisation's vision, values and strategic objectives as well as operational performance and safety. This includes role modelling a multi-disciplinary triumvirate team with the Deputy CEO/COO, ensuring clarity of direction and communication to the Clinical Groups and Site teams.

To provide inspirational, professional, compassionate leadership and strategic direction to the Trust's medical staff across all sites, in particular preparing them for strategic change programmes, in partnership with the Trust Board and Trust Executive Committee and through proactive leadership of a small team who directly report to you including the deputy and associate medical directors.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.