Chief Medical Officer

Job overview

The Chief Medical Officer is a pivotal Executive Board role, providing vision, professional leadership and strategic direction in the delivery of the Trust’s ambitions in the provision of care, learning and research. The Chief Medical Officer will apply their clinical and wider leadership skills and experience, together with curiosity in service of driving great care, teaching and research.

The post holder provides strong and effective clinical and medical leadership and engagement within the organisation and across professional boundaries and takes lead responsibility for the medical implications of clinical service strategy, service configuration, clinical performance, governance and professional conduct.

The Chief Medical Officer maintains effective working relationships with the Trust’s academic and healthcare partners. The post holder also champions the Trust’s status as a leading University teaching hospital and major centre for research and  development and is responsible for leading a portfolio of responsibilities. These change from time to time and currently includes for example infection prevention control (the CMO being the Director of Infection, Prevention  and Control (DIPC), clinical audit, medicines management and medical education

Main duties of the job

Patient safety, quality & improvement and operational performance

Provide professional clinical leadership to all Medical and Dental staff, championing the participation and engagement of  clinical leaders in the management and delivery of effective and efficient care, learning and research.

Ensure effective relationships are maintained between the Trust and Deanery/NHS England (post-graduate medical  education), and University of Cambridge Clinical School (undergraduate medical education).

Lead, from a medical perspective, the development of new models of care, fit for the future, that put patient need at the  centre, harness new technology and work collaboratively with professionals in and outside the hospital

Lead and promote the Trust’s research and development agenda internally and externally, ensuring that high quality  research is able to flourish and is aligned with the strategic ambitions of the organisation.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with external agencies and the local community, including  commissioning bodies, GPs, local politicians, health organisations, interest groups, patient reference groups, the Shelford  Group, and the local media.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Applicant Information Pack.

Closing date for applications – Friday 20th December 2024.

Selected candidates will be invited to attend preliminary interviews with Odgers Berndtson in December and January.

The final interview process with CUH will take place on a date to be confirmed in January.

The preferred method of application is online at: www.odgers.com/92737  If you are unable to apply online please email: [email protected]

All applications will receive an automated response.

Any postal applications should be sent directly to Carmel Gibbons, 20 Cannon Street, London, EC4M 6XD.