Care Group Medical Director

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Care Group Medical Director

The closing date is 29 October 2025

We are excited to welcome an inclusive, compassionate and collaborative Medical Director into the Doncaster Mental Health and Learning Disability Care Group. You will join a strong and motivated senior leadership team led by the Care Group Director. Along with your clinical colleagues (Director of Psychological Professions and Nurse Director) you will create a positive safety culture along with a robust quality governance framework and actively lead and manage our medical workforce across the care group.

This post attracts a recruitment and retention premium of 10% of salary for a period of 2 years. If interested in how this role could be attached to one of our clinical vacancies, to make the post full time please contact Dr Andrew Heighton (Interim Medical Director) for a discussion about opportunities within the care group.

This role does not require you to have a specific clinical background, as a leadership and management post it allows those skills to be transferable regardless of your clinical experience. You may be interested in purely this role and the 4 PAs attached to it, or you may want a full time role and to discuss what options we have available for the extra PAs. Please contact Laura Wiltshire (details below) to book a conversation and explore the various options available. They are currently ranging from in patient to community across adults and older adults, as some are out to recruitment rather than list them here I can update accurately when we talk.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description/person specification for all details of this role including main duties.

Please make contact if you wish to discuss any of the details within the document or clarify any aspect of the role.

You will join a new but strong and connected senior leadership team, and have excellent support from a band 4 PA (who sits within the PA SLT team ensuring cross cover).

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description/person specification for all details of this role including main duties.

This role does not require you to have a specific clinical background, as a leadership and management post it allows those skills to be transferable regardless of your clinical experience. The Medical Director has 4 PAs with it; but within the Care Group and wider organisation we have a range of clinical opportunities for the clinical PAs ranging from Acute in patient (with further scope to move into a Community Consultant role) and some opportunities within our acute directorate in the crisis field. We welcome a discussion if you are interested in PAs above the Medical Director PAs please reach out to see what is available and possible in line with your background/speciality. Please contact Laura Wiltshire (details below) to have an initial conversation and explore the various options available.

You may also want to have a discussion with our Chief Medical Officer (Dr Diarmid Sinclair) which we can also arrange.

Take a look at this video of Dr Sinclair and Chief Operating Officer Richard Chillery outlining some of the reasons why this opportunity is an exciting role within the trust. We welcome your application and enquiries.

Person Specification Education / Qualifications

• MB ChB or equivalent
• Current GMC Registration with a license to practise
• Post graduate qualification in leadership and management
• GMC registration without any restrictions
• s12 approval and Approved Clinician stats WRT the Mental Health Act (1983)

Experience

• Suitably qualified medical practitioner
• Experience of developing and delivering presentations and/or training to large groups
• Broad and positive clinical experience
• Management/leadership experience in the NHS
• Experience of people management including doctors
• Detailed knowledge of the current issues within the NHS
• Experience of leading on research projects and audit
• Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983) and the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
• Understanding of clinical risk management and the ability to put this into practice as expert advisor within risk management
• An understanding of the regulatory framework of the GMC
• Working knowledge and experience in the use of the quality improvement tool in practice
• An understanding of medical revalidation and appraisal processes
• An understanding of financial management systems and budgets within the NHS
• An understanding of regional and national structures and regulators (ICBs, CQC, NHS England, NHS Providers)

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrates an ability to manage complex situations
• Demonstrable ability to lead people in difficult situations and manage disagreement
• Ability to translate police into practice
• Ability to work within clear performance targets and indicators
• Ability to negotiate, shape and influence local service development involving partner agencies and key stakeholders
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to lead, motivate and empower others to achieve objectives and aspirations
• Ability to assimilate information, analyse data triangulate themes and present to others
• Experience of service redesign
• Financial and budgetary management experience
• Expertise in undertaking investigations with the ability to determine outcomes and produce recommendations

Other

• Will be required to travel on a regular basis across the trust wide footprint and to organisations external to the trust

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.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT

£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum, pro rata