Group Chief Medical Officer

Job summary

This is a significant and distinctive Board-level opportunity to shape the future of clinical services across a developing NHS Group.

As Group Chief Medical Officer, you will be a voting Board Director across both organisations, providing professional leadership to the medical workforce and playing a central role in shaping the next stage of the Groups development. You will lead on clinical quality, patient safety and clinical governance, championing excellence in care while supporting innovation, research and new models of service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the Chief Executive, Chief Nursing Officer and executive colleagues, you will help design and deliver the transformation of clinical services across both Trusts. You will support the development of a consistent clinical model and workforce approach, strengthening collaboration within and between organisations and across system partners.

This is a role that requires visible, credible and compassionate leadership. You will engage and influence clinicians at every level, build strong partnerships internally and externally, and help create a culture in which multidisciplinary teams are empowered to lead improvement and deliver high standards of patient care.

Job responsibilities

Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have been working in partnership since 2019, moving to a single Chief Executive and executive team in 2023 and establishing Boards and committees in common in 2024.

Together, we are building a Group model designed to deliver improved outcomes for patients, strengthen clinical sustainability and support collaborative working at scale across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight