Chief Medical Officer

Job overview

Are you an inspiring clinical leader ready to shape the future of care for over 400,000 people? Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a visionary Chief Medical Officer to drive quality, safety and transformation across our organisation.

You’ll provide strategic clinical leadership, champion innovation, and ensure exceptional standards of care across our hospital, community services and Royal Primary Care. You’ll lead the development of our ambitious clinical strategy, strengthen partnerships across the system, and role model compassionate, inclusive leadership for our medical workforce.

You’ll join a collaborative, supportive Executive Team committed to creating a workplace where colleagues thrive, innovation flourishes, and patient care continually improves.

With over 5,000 colleagues and our new Improving Care Together strategy launching this year, there has never been a more exciting time to join #TeamCRH.

If you’re driven by purpose, collaboration and clinical excellence, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As Chief Medical Officer, you will provide strategic clinical leadership across the Trust—driving quality, safety and transformation. You’ll develop our ambitious clinical strategy to deliver meaningful improvements in outcomes, experience and population health in line with the NHS 10 Year Plan.

Working closely with the Chief Nurse, Chief Operating Officer and wider Executive Team, you’ll strengthen clinical performance, lead major transformation programmes, and champion clinically led service redesign that improves outcomes, experience and productivity.

As Responsible Officer and lead Caldicott Guardian, you’ll ensure robust systems for quality, safety, revalidation and information governance.

You will provide visible, compassionate leadership to the medical workforce—supporting recruitment, development and culture—while building strong partnerships with system leaders, universities, local authorities, VCSE partners and primary care to drive integration and improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We’re seeking an inclusive, values driven clinical leader with:

• Executive/board level experience  •    Demonstrable evidence of improving clinical outcomes, clinical effectiveness and patient experience •    Demonstrated commitment to tackling health inequalities and driving measurable improvements in population health. •    Evidence of successfully cultivating clinical leadership capacity within teams •    A strong track record of impactful clinical leadership of service transformation •    Exceptional communication and relationship building skills •    Leadership that reflects our Proud to CARE values: Compassion • Ambition • Respect • Encouragement

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification and candidate information pack for further details.