Divisional Associate Medical Director in Women’s & Children’s Division: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

We are offering a challenging and exciting opportunity for a medical leader for the Women’s & Children’s Division in the role of Divisional Associate Medical Director.

We have now moved to a new model of Divisional leadership across the 4 Divisions that make up the Royal London & Mile End Hospitals, where we appoint equivalent triumvirate/quad roles as the Divisional Associate Medical Director, the Divisional Associate Director of Nursing and the Divisional Director of Operations and the Associate Director of Midwifery (W&C only). We will then manage a process where the Divisional Director, a Hospital Executive Board role, is selected from these four roles to be ‘first amongst equals’.

These roles, as the Medical Divisional lead, accountable for professional issues, safety, standards and benchmarking, offering advice & guidance to the Divisional triumvirate, and the Divisional Director (if not selected as the eventual DD) will be respectively responsible for the clinical services, safety and medical workforce across the Children’s Hospital & Children’s specialised services, our improving and complex Maternity & Gynaecology services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:o provide professional support and leadership to the Divisional Director o act for all medical professionals, accountable for matters including Divisional support forrevalidation, continuous professional development, team & individual job planning, on-call rotasand shift patterns, rota design & rostering and other aspects of medical productivity. Will beresponsible for recruitment, resident doctor rostering, rota design and professional wellbeingo support and assist teaching & training, trainees in difficulty, GMC and NHSE surveys and feedbackand act to improve the working conditions of resident doctors within the Divisiono lead on clinical audit, GIRFT reports, productivity and outpatients, and the implementation ofnational audit recommendationso lead on patient safety and support Divisional governance and risk o Carry responsibility for in-patient flow, rounding, diagnostics, admission and discharge; beresponsible for theatre efficiency & productivity, deteriorating patients, duty of candour andcomplaints; undertake to transform outpatients and drive forwards the digital agenda across thehospitalso Act for SDEC, virtual wards and as a connector to our Place obligation with IntegratedNeighbourhood Teams and our increasing out-of-hospital offer to Tower Hamletso Be the key contact on matters relating to the professional medical agenda and issues, nationally andlocally working with the hospital MD and aligned to the CMO

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Working at a Consultant level for a significant number of years.
• Experience of leadership and management
• Experience of clinical governance and of the measures to ensure patient safety
• A record of partnership working
• Track record of innovation
• Track record of managing and developing staff
• Track record of addressing poor performance
• Track record of achieving financial targets

Desirable

• Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction
• Whilst experience of Hospital management is desirable, this role offers an opportunity to build on and develop this skill if required

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrable leadership skills
• Able to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear vision and sense of direction
• Ability to define and implement policy development at directorate level
• Communication skills, verbal and written Interpersonal skills, able to influence and motivate
• Able to prioritise and manage competing demands
• Able to lead continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies with a multidisciplinary team.

Knowledge/ Qualifications

Essential

• Medical graduate.
• Higher medical professional qualification.
• Post graduate medical qualifications.
• Unblemished registration with GMC. Postgraduate qualifications in either medical education or clinical governance
• Employed substantively in clinical practice within Barts Health NHS Trust
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• A good understanding of the current context of health and social care, and of clinical learning and research
• An understanding of the healthcare issues in East London
• A broad understanding of the systems for primary care, social care and commissioning
• Knowledge of the Trust priorities

Attitudes and Values

Essential

• Understands and supports the vision and values of the Trust
• Acts as a role model for senior as well as more junior colleagues
• Team player, able to develop a culture that values colleagues and enables them to engage in problem solving and decision making
• Motived for the role
• Provide a role model for clinical leaders

Closing Date: 24 August 2026