Medical Director - TLCO/MLCO & UDHM

Overview

This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly credible GP/medical/dental leader with a passion for integrated community working to join Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's forward-thinking Clinical Group, Senior Leadership Team.

With a strong track record in governance, safety, integrating services and clinical effectiveness, you will provide senior clinical leadership for Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's Manchester and Trafford Local Care Organisations (LCOs) and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (UDHM). Critically, you will promote research, innovation, and education that will make Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's services fit for the future, and in doing so, put your career on an exciting trajectory.

With a commitment to system and organisational excellence, you will ensure that new models of community care are clinically safe, support best practice, and are sustainable for changing patterns of delivery, fostering high levels of clinical involvement, and joint working focused on delivering the best outcomes for patients and people.

If you have the right skills, experience, values, and attitude to meet the needs and demands of the role, let Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust tell you more about what the job involves and why this could be your next and best career move.

Key Responsibilities

• Bringing your wealth of experience as a clinical leader, you will make Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's LCOs and UDHM synonymous with quality, safety, and clinical effectiveness.
• Providing professional leadership to the medical and dental workforce across the Clinical Group, leading on GP, medical and dental workforce planning, recruitment, productivity, employee relations, promoting diversity, equality, and creating a sense of belonging.
• Acting as a role model for other medical leaders across MFT, securing confidence and credibility with teams as well as external stakeholders and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's local communities.
• Guiding Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust through challenging decisions, sometimes in the face of opposition, ensuring Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust act in the best interests of patient safety and patient experience.
• Using exceptional communication and collaboration skills to help reconfigure Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's services to put patients at the centre of everything Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust do, working with other MFT medical leaders.

Organisational Context

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

Digital Innovation

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’ve created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

Research and Education

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.

Diversity and Inclusion

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's workforce, ensuring Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's people are truly representative of the communities Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust serve.