Medical Directors CDG3 - Women's, Children and Young People

Job summary

Medical Directors CDG 3 Heartland Hospital (University Hospital of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust):

We are looking for experienced medical leaders for CDG3 for Medical Director roles who are interested as Medical Director for Women's or, Medical Director for Children's and Young People or someone who can lead as Medical Director for both( Women's and Children's and Young People).

The role includes providing leadership and direction to the hospitals, and to oversee the

management of all resources and staff within the Clinical Delivery Group (CDG) of women's services

across the three hospital sites of Heartlands, Solihull and Good Hope.

The Medical Director position involves becoming a member of the Hospital CDG senior leadership team, working in partnership

with other CDG Medical Directors to deliver the safe and efficient functioning of women's services

aligned to the corporate objectives and the accompanying clinical strategy.

For more information, please see attached the job description.

Lead on the delivering of national maternity requirements/plans ensuring the vision, values and strategic themes of the UHB are integrated. and that delivery is focused on improving outcomes and experience for women using our services.

Has delegated accountability and responsibility from the Chief Medical officer/Board for ensuring professional leadership and governance of maternity services and ensure that delivery is focused on improving outcomes and experience for women using our services.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Please see 'Detailed Job Description' section below and attached for further information regarding these posts. 

About us

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.

Job description

Medical Director for Women's:-

Work with the Hospital Medical Director, Clinical Service leads, Director of Midwifery, Head of Midwives, Triumvirate colleagues to ensure the service meets all internal and external requirements relating to Maternity services in relation to national plans, MSSP, CQC, CNST. GMC, Health Education England, and MNSI etc.

Work with the Clinical Service Leads , Midwifery colleagues to continue to develop an open and respectful culture where teams are confident and skilled in providing regular, constructive feedback, where issues can be raised and solved openly, leading to improvements for women their families and for staff .

Develop, lead and manage key quality metrics identifying areas for improvement and the mitigation of risk.

Also engaging with teams to establish a learning culture that continually improve the outcomes and experience of women and their families.

Actively establish and build a wide range of effective networks, contacts and partnerships with internal and external stake holders to inform and influence improvements in service delivery and outcomes.

Medical Director for Children and Young People:-

Work with the Hospital Medical Director, Clinical Service leads of Paediatrics, Clinical Service leads of Neonates, Clinical lead of Community Paediatrics, ED lead for Paediatrics, Safeguarding team, Triumvirate colleagues to ensure that service meets all internal and external service requirements relating to children and Young People, Full Integration of acute and community Paediatrics, SEND agenda, Safeguarding, working with Birmingham Chil