Medical Director

Thank you for your interest in the position of Medical Director at Badger Healthcare Group.

As a not-for-profit social enterprise, our healthcare services are values-driven and innovative. This is an exciting and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a real difference in improving the health and wellbeing of our communities. It requires a high level of commitment, strategic leadership, clinical expertise, and independence of mind. We believe it offers a unique opportunity for the successful applicant to shape and influence a caring, growing, and forward-thinking out-of-hours and urgent care organisation, bringing their own personality, vision, and skills to the role. Job share or split roles may also be considered, particularly where responsibilities are aligned across clinical governance and strategy and business growth.

Main duties of the job

The Medical Director is the senior clinical leader within Badger Healthcare Group, accountable for the delivery of excellence in clinical quality, safety and governance across all services. The role provides both strategic and operational clinical leadership to ensure the organisation consistently delivers safe, high-quality, patient-centred care in line with its social enterprise values, statutory and contractual responsibilities, and local and national priorities. As a core member of the executive team, the post holder brings strong clinical leadership to digital transformation, innovation, business growth and service diversification, ensuring clinical priorities are central to organisational strategy and delivery. The Medical Director leads the organisations approach to clinical risk management and continuous improvement, while building influential relationships across health, care and Voluntary, Community, Faith & Social Enterprise (VCFSE) partners to support the development of integrated and sustainable services. The role includes responsibility as Caldicott Guardian and participation in the senior on-call rota.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate medical qualification such as MRCP or MRCGP
• Registered doctor with a GMC license to practice, so able to work clinically in one or more Badger clinical service
• Recorded on the GMC GP register
• Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development
• Up to date knowledge of key national policy issues and trends related to quality and safety
• A Research Degree such as MPhil, MD, or PhD
• Fellowship of the RCGP

Experience

• Senior clinical leadership experience, demonstrating a commitment to service quality and value for money
• Experience of working within the NHS or other similarly sized, complex organisation
• Takes initiative, acts with confidence, and works under own direction
• Strong leadership skills, able to coach, support and guide direct reports to maximise their potential
• A proven record in the successful implementation of new/improved, innovative models of care achieved through partnership with other agencies
• Experience of working at Board level, including influence and challenge
• Experience in a highly complex contracting environment
• Coroner court and medicolegal case experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working

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