Hospital Medical Director GHH

We are excited to welcome an inclusive, compassionate and collaborative Medical Director into the Good Hope Hospital (part of University Hospitals Birmingham). You will join a strong and motivated senior leadership team led by the Hospital Executive Director and professionally accountable to the Chief Medical Officer. Along with your clinical colleagues you will create a positive safety culture along with a robust quality governance framework and proactively lead and manage our medical workforce across the Good Hope site., The HMD will be responsible for the safe and efficient functioning of the Good Hope Hospital and its accompanying clinical strategy. Sharing our Trust values of being Kind, Connected and Bold, you will work in tandem with other Hospital Medical Directors within the Group. This role does not require you to have a specific clinical background, as a leadership and management post it allows those skills to be transferable regardless of your clinical experience. Applications are welcome from inside our care group, within the Trust and from external experienced Consultants. The HMD key responsibilities will encompass:

• Have oversight of and ensure excellent running of staff education and wellbeing, and scrutiny and assurance around decision making
• Maintain integrity of the site - ensuring sufficient flow, and access to urgent and emergency, and specialist pathways by ensuring relevant CDG's are working together and efficiently;
• Develop assurance, risk and reporting systems to provide the necessary assurance to the Hospital Management Board and its Committees
• Support the Hospital Executive Director in the effective budget management of medical services
• Line manage the CDG Medical Leads
Excellent communication skills will be essential, ensuring that key lines of communication are established and maintained with your team.

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this. Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to: Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives. UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work. University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.