Locality Medical Director

Working as part of a triumvirate, this post is one of three key leadership roles who will be working together to provide senior strategic, visible, clinical and professional leadership across the Locality. The post holders will lead and manage services at Locality level and will be jointly responsible and accountable for:

• The delivery of quality services around the core dimensions of safety, effectiveness and patient experience.
• The development of strategic plans in line with overall Trust strategy.
• The performance management of all services in line with local and national performance targets and standards.
• Ensuring clinical engagement, taking responsibility for good governance, safety and risk management.
• Taking a commercial and business approach to services which recognises and adapts to the needs of our customers.
• Providing leadership, support and advice to their leadership teams, managers and staff.

The triumvirate approach represents a very different way of working for managers and clinicians and is one that will demand much from the incumbents of those posts, who are expected to work together to make it a success.

The localities will be required to work collectively and collaboratively to ensure the effective implementation of the Trust locality redesign model, ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of patient and service user pathways across both their respective locality as well as the organisation.

Responsible for ensuring good working relationships with other localities and across the Trust and for being proactive in ensuring that safety, effectiveness and patient experience and a corporate approach is at the forefront in dealing with any cross-boundary issues.

Recognise your wider responsibilities and accountability to the Trust and acknowledge that on occasion this may override the priorities of the Locality.

The Locality Medical Director will be an experienced clinician to show strong leadership and for our new Localities within NSFT. You will demonstrate leadership and be skilled at coaching individuals to enable them to deliver their very best. Working closely with the Locality Director of Operations and Locality Director of Nursing and Quality, you will enable locality associate medical directors and their teams and the wider locality to establish themselves as fully functioning service lines.