Chief Medical Officer

Job summary

The role of CMO represents an outstanding opportunity for an innovative, compassionate and inclusive leader to influence and shape the direction and future success of the Trust.

You will be attracted by the opportunities that we face in terms of clinical transformation and reconfiguration, capital development, improving the culture across the organisation, recovery from the pandemic and being a member of The Foundation Group with ambitions to be a lead provider at place.

As we take a relentless approach to improving quality across the Trust, you will enable expert clinical leadership to flourish, inspiring others through your actions and relying on your proven track record of visible, credible and effective medical leadership at or close to Board level.

Main duties of the job

I am looking for a talented leader who will be motivated by the opportunity to innovate and whose focus and approach will empower our colleagues to respond to the increased demand on emergency and planned care. You will be driven to work across professional and organisational boundaries, ensuring that the acute health needs of our population are met and that future developments are grounded in the highest standards of patient care and outstanding clinical practice.

The successful candidate will be values driven, a team player and a leader who can inspire change and innovation, developing the talent of our medical workforce and our clinical services, to best meet the needs of the communities we serve.

Regards,

Stephen Collman

Managing Director

Job responsibilities

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.