# Deputy Chief Medical Officers - Effective, Timely and Safe Care > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-chief-medical-officers-effective-timely-and-safe-care/ee9a8061-ae96-46cb-bf65-f0b707528483 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-chief-medical-officers-effective-timely-and-safe-care/ee9a8061-ae96-46cb-bf65-f0b707528483.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Maudsley Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Chief medical officer - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 6 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-02T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-14T12:31:06.374Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/South_London_Maudsley_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychiatry_Medical_Leadership/Psychiatry_Medical_Leadership-v8279428 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8279428?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.slam.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Deputy Chief Medical Officers (Effective Care, Timely Care and Safe Care) Job Overview We are strengthening our senior medical leadership structure and are seeking exceptional senior medical leaders to join us as Deputy Chief Medical Officers for: - Effective Care - Timely Care - Safe Care Working directly with Professor Derek Tracy, Chief Medical Officer, and alongside the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for People, these newly established roles offer an exciting opportunity to shape the future of care across South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. ### Main duties of the job The Deputy Chief Medical Officers will provide visible, inclusive, and clinically credible leadership across the Trust, helping to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness and timeliness of care for patients and service users. These influential roles will work across clinical, operational, and corporate boundaries, supporting organisational strategy, service transformation, and continuous improvement. Successful candidates will join a strengthened senior medical leadership team and play a key role in delivering the Trust's ambitions for outstanding care, innovation, research and clinical excellence. Each role comprises six management programmed activities (PAs) and forms part of a newly strengthened medical leadership structure. Prospective applicants are warmly encouraged to arrange an informal and confidential discussion, or informal visit, with Professor Derek Tracy, Chief Medical Officer, to learn more about the opportunities and the future direction of medical leadership within the Trust. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities The Deputy Chief Medical Officers will provide senior medical leadership across the Trust and work collectively with the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for People to support the delivery of the Trust's strategic objectives and continuous improvement ambitions. Whilst each postholder will contribute to the collective leadership of the medical workforce and broader organisational priorities, each role will hold a distinct portfolio of responsibilities. Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Effective Care The postholder will provide strategic leadership for clinical effectiveness, outcomes, quality improvement, innovation and research. Key responsibilities include: - Promoting evidence-based practice and reducing unwarranted variation in care. - Supporting implementation of the Trust's Care Improvement System. - Improving outcomes using audit, benchmarking, and outcome measures. - Strengthening the translation of research and innovation into clinical practice. - Supporting improvement in quality, effectiveness, and patient outcomes across services. Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Timely Care The postholder will provide strategic leadership for access, patient flow, productivity, and pathway improvement. Key responsibilities include: - Improving access to services and reducing delays in care. - Supporting improvements in patient flow and pathway effectiveness. - Working with clinical and operational leaders to optimise demand and capacity management. - Leading programmes that improve service responsiveness and patient experience. - Supporting the development of sustainable and equitable models of care. Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Safe Care The postholder will provide strategic leadership for patient safety, quality governance, and organisational learning. Key responsibilities include: - Leading the development and delivery of the Trust's patient safety priorities. - Promoting a culture of openness, learning, and continuous improvement. - Strengthening organisational learning from incidents, complaints, and patient feedback. - Supporting Trust-wide quality and safety improvement programmes. - Providing expert advice and assurance on safety, governance, and clinical risk. All three postholders will be expected to work collaboratively across portfolios, support Trust-wide priorities and provide visible and influential leadership across the organisation. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - A visible, credible, and values-driven leader with strong professional integrity and a commitment to high standards of clinical care and patient safety. - Resilient and able to work under pressure, managing competing priorities and organisational challenges. **Desirable** - 0 ### Skills and Competencies **Essential** - Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate strategy into delivery. - Ability to analyse, interpret and use complex data and intelligence to drive improvement. - Advanced communication, influencing, and negotiation skills. - Ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary teams across organisational boundaries. - Demonstrable credibility as a senior clinical leader, with the ability to influence senior clinicians and stakeholders. **Desirable** - Understanding of quality improvement methodologies, operational improvement approaches and organisational learning systems. - Knowledge of NHS policy, regulatory frameworks (e.g. CQC), access standards and national mental health priorities. - Understanding of population health approaches and health inequalities. ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Significant senior clinical leadership experience at Directorate, Divisional or Trust level. - Experience of working with or advising senior leadership teams, including Executive or Board-level committees - Experience of influencing and leading across organisational boundaries, including clinical and operational teams. - Ability to maintain clinical credibility through ongoing clinical practice within an agreed Consultant role. **Desirable** - Experience of working at system level for example within an Integrated Care System or through partnership working across organisations. - Experience of leading or contributing to academic, research, or innovation programmes. ### Education and Qualification **Essential** - Medical Degree with Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice - Substantive Consultant appointment, or eligibility for appointment to a substantive Consultant role within the Trust. - Evidence of ongoing professional development, appraisal and revalidation. **Desirable** - Postgraduate qualification in leadership, management, quality improvement - Fellowship or membership of relevant professional or leadership body (e.g. FMLM). ### Role/Team specific requirements **Essential** - Able to work as part of a cohesive DCMO leadership team across Safe, Effective and Timely Care. - Able to build effective working relationships with Clinical Directors, Service Directors and senior multidisciplinary leaders across the Trust. - Able to work flexibly across portfolios, providing cross-cover and support to other Deputy Chief Medical Officers as required. - Able to contribute to Trust-wide initiatives, major programmes and organisational priorities as directed by the Chief Medical Officer. **Desirable** - 0 ## Documents - [slam staff benefits (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2341) - [deputy cmo safe care (pdf, 624.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10595896) - [deputy cmo timely care (pdf, 624.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10595895) - [deputy cmo effective care (pdf, 624.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10595894) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.