Job Description:
Divisional Associate Medical Director
Cromwell Hospital, London, SW5
Permanent role
Part time – 2 days per week
Competitive salary & benefits package
Closing Date for applications – Friday 24th January 2025
We make health happen.
At Cromwell Hospital, an internationally renowned private hospital located in the Kensington, the Associate Medical Director (AMD) will assist the Chief Medical Officer in supporting and developing clinical services to ensure the delivery of World Class care.
The AMD will be accountable and responsible for corporate and clinical governance, clinical strategy, regulatory compliance, financial control, teaching and training, quality improvement and clinical outcomes for their area in close partnership with their triumvirate colleagues.
The post is Acute and General Medicine, Neurology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology (including endoscopy), Oncology and Radiotherapy, Paediatrics focused.
How you’ll help us make health happen
- Assist the CMO and triumvirate with setting strategy and direction for clinical services, ensuring there is stakeholder engagement from the beginning and assisting in the operationalisation of the clinical strategy.
- Assist the CMO in writing Stage 2 complaint responses, attending initial incident reviews meetings, assisting and advising on Root Cause Analyses and action plans, thematic reviews in line with PSIRF (Patient Safety Incident Response Framework), sharing the learning and closing the loop from incidents and complaints.
- Work collaboratively with Modern Matrons and Heads of Departments within their respective divisions as a triumvirate.
- Work within the triumvirate to ensure regulatory compliance within respective areas and collating evidence to submit to the new CQC portal. Assisting colleagues with Departmental accreditation.
- Work with the Lead RMOs on necessary quality improvements such as clinical pathway design and new Standard Operating Policies. Present new technology and services to the newly created Quality Improvement and Innovation Committee, work in partnership with the commercial and consultant development teams.
- Ensure all audits are completed in a timely fashion for each Department and any changes or improvements to service are re-audited to complete the audit cycle
- Ensure all statutory and mandatory training requirements are achieved for medical staff
- Line manage one or more of the Lead Resident Medical Officers, ensuring SMART goals are agreed for the year, supporting the LRMO’s career development and wellbeing.
- Prioritise staff engagement in order to deliver high People Pulse Scores and be ready to take action from the available feedback.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
- Significant senior level experience in the secondary care setting; knowledgeable and experienced within the private sector
- Director level, leadership experience within a health organisation
- Significantly experienced within clinical governance, leading strategic policy development, performance and quality improvement
- Strong experience of building and maintaining stakeholder relationships, skilled in managing highly sensitive situations with stakeholders of all levels.
- A compassionate, supportive and inclusive leadership style, with experience of line managing senior leaders/clinicians across a range of areas and teams.
- A ‘world class care’ mindset and a strong focus on innovation.
- Budget management experience
- Practising secondary care clinician at consultant level.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with the option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- Pension
- Annual health services bonus scheme
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Access to our confidential employee assistance programme
- Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type:
Part time
Job Area:
Clinical Services
Locations:
Cromwell Hospital London
