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.

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 5,600 colleagues across Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Royal Primary Care and Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS) and we also have some fantastic volunteers supporting our services.

Here at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, we provide a full range of district general services, including 24-hour urgent and emergency care, specialist children’s services, maternity and community midwifery to the population of north Derbyshire – around 400,000 local people. We also offer primary care services through nine GP surgeries in Chesterfield and Derbyshire. 

This is an exciting year for our Trust, with our new ‘Improving Care Together strategy’ launching in April.

Shaped through meaningful conversations with patients, staff, volunteers and partners, this strategy captures our ambition to continually raise the quality of care we provide and to respond to the changing needs of our patients and communities. 

A significant element of supporting our people includes compassionate and inclusive leadership. We know that people have a life outside of work, we offer a raft of support to care for your physical and mental wellbeing including a purpose-built Health Wellbeing Hub which includes access to a 24/7 gym. 

Ours is a workplace in which you can proudly be yourself

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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