Chief Medical Officer

This includes extending the reach of our specialist expertise beyond the hospital, strengthening relationships across the region and supporting closer clinical collaboration with our partners, including the introduction of a shared electronic patient record with Cambridge University Hospitals.

We are looking for an experienced medical leader with a record of leading senior clinicians, managing complex change and improving clinical services. You will understand the demands of working with highly specialised medical professionals and have the authority to make difficult decisions while maintaining trust and respect.

Although an understanding of specialist hospital services will be important, we are interested in candidates from a range of clinical backgrounds. Above all, we are looking for someone with the leadership experience, ability and ambition to contribute at Board level and support our medical workforce to deliver its best for patients.

Royal Papworth is committed to developing an inclusive and representative leadership team. We particularly encourage applications from women, those from ethnic minority backgrounds and others with protected characteristics who are currently underrepresented in our Executive Team.

Apply at: https://alumniglobal.com/job/rph-cmo

For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact Thomas Patterson, Managing Director, Alumni Global, on 07970 339 151 or thomas.patterson@alumniglobal.com.

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Essential: - Current GMC registration.; - Higher Medical Degree/Qualification.; - Evidence of professional and personal development within the last two years.; - Evidence of leadership development through a structured development programme or equivalent experience.

Essential: - Proven record in senior medical leadership.; - Experience of working at a leadership level within a health system.; - Have knowledge and experience of clinical governance.; - Experience of productive cross professional working.; - Detailed understanding of current clinical and other issues relating to acute health care, in particular, cardiothoracic services.; - Clear understanding of the NHS systems and agenda and strategic issues in health care and ability to interpret these in a given setting.; - Have strategic and business planning experience and experience of managing budgets.; - Have experience of implementing national and statutory requirements.; - Evidence of development of people and processes to promote organisational learning and valuing diversity.; - Have significant organisation change experience/managing difficult and complex change.; - Be knowledgeable about revalidation.; - Have a good understanding of the health and social care management environment and of roles and responsibilities within it.; - Have a good understanding of national targets and of performance management methodology

Essential: - Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration; - Intellectual capacity to grasp and communicate complex issues to a range of audiences (from Junior Nurses to Board to Consultants/ global experts).; - Ability to understand, value and enhance the diversity and feelings of belonging amongst staff.; - Ability to leverage Royal Papworth's expertise and to support the development of the ICS.