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Job overview
Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional clinical leader to take on the role of Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) – Safety and Clinical Governance. This is a significant senior leadership opportunity to shape and lead the Trust’s approach to patient safety, clinical governance and assurance across the Group.
This role sits at the heart of the Chief Medical Officer’s portfolio, providing strategic oversight and executive leadership across a broad and complex set of safety‑critical, regulatory and governance functions. The post holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring that high‑risk areas of clinical practice are effectively governed, with strong assurance to the Board and alignment with national expectations.
The DCMO will lead and coordinate key safety and clinical governance workstreams, ensuring robust oversight, consistency of standards, and clear escalation of risks. This includes senior leadership across statutory and specialist governance areas, quality and safety programmes, and the development of a coherent, Trust‑wide approach to safety and assurance across all sites.
Main duties of the job
Provide senior medical leadership and executive oversight for designated safety‑critical and statutory clinical governance portfolios, holding clear accountability for the effective oversight of patient safety across all Trust sites and services.
Lead the development and delivery of a coherent, Trust-wide approach to safety and clinical governance, ensuring that risks are identified early, managed proactively, and escalated appropriately, with clear line of sight from ward to Board.
Provide medical leadership and oversight of a consistent and high‑performing governance structures, with clearly defined accountabilities and robust escalation routes for high‑risk clinical areas, enabling timely clinical decision‑making and strong organisational assurance.
Provide strategic medical oversight of the Trust’s Quality and Safety Strategy, ensuring full alignment with the Trust’s Clinical Strategy, workforce strategy and assurance frameworks, and supporting Barts Health’s ambition to be an exemplar organisation for safety, quality and governance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Ability to build organisation capabilities, including establishing a clear strategic vision and direction, and translating these into successful outcomes
- The proven ability to set ambitious targets and monitor against targets to secure success
- The capacity to think strategically and have the ability to analyse and solve highly complex problems, finding new solutions and breaking new ground where required
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the revalidation, appraisal and performance needs of a large tertiary referral healthcare/NHS provider
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a senior medical leadership role
- Successful track record in clinical leadership e.g. operational or educational with delivery of innovation, improvement and compliance
- Experience of delivering and managing appraisal, supporting doctors to deliver their potential including those in difficulty
- Track record of managing and developing staff
- Proven experience of partnership working and stakeholder management
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with relevant professional body.
- Post graduate qualifications.
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This advert is for Deputy Chief Medical Officer in Safety and Clinical Governance with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Administrative and IT role. The contract type is 36 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 21 Jul 2026.
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