Hospital Place Medical Director: Sponsorship Available

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are seeking an exceptional Hospital Place Medical Directors to join our Senior Leadership Team, We have a vacancy available at each of our sites, Basildon and Broomfield. Reporting to the Hospital Chief Executives, you will provide strategic and operational leadership, driving performance, service transformation, and the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Working closely with clinical, corporate, and system partners, you will lead operational performance across the division, ensuring compliance with national standards, regulatory requirements, and financial objectives while championing continuous improvement.

At MSE, we are committed to developing our future leaders and are dedicated to investing in your professional growth and development.

This is an excellent, unique opportunity for an experienced, values-driven leader to make a significant impact on patients, staff, and services across one of the largest NHS organisations in the country.

If you’re ready to use your operational experience to make a real difference and help drive positive change across our organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder contributes fully to the strategic and corporate management of the hospital place.

The post holder will provide medical advice to the hospital leadership team and professional leadership to all doctors and medical allied professionals working in the hospital and associated places. In addition, they will play an active role in the development and delivery of the Trust clinical quality strategy and associated business plans in line with Trust’s strategy.

The post holder will support the Chief Medical Officer in the delivery of professional standards, medical training and education, research and development and effective clinical care on their hospital place.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Medical Graduate
  • Higher Medical Professional qualification
  • Unblemished GMC registration

Knowledge

Essential

  • Significant demonstrable experience of Clinical director level equivalent to 3 years in a relevant healthcare organisation
  • Outstanding reputation as a clinician and clinical leader with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of clinical services

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 29 November 2026

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