Clinical Lead for Resident Medical Workforce

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Clinical Lead for Resident Medical Workforce

The closing date is 04 October 2026

The Clinical Lead for Medicine Division Locally Employed Workforce will provide visible clinical leadership, oversight and advocacy for locally employed doctors across the Medicine Division. The post holder will support the development of a consistent, high-quality experience for locally employed doctors, ensuring that doctors in these roles are effectively inducted, supported, supervised, developed and integrated within clinical teams.

The role will work closely with Chiefs of Service, Clinical Leads, General Managers, Medical Staffing, Medical Education, Guardian of Safe Working, rota teams, HR colleagues to improve retention, pastoral support, governance, workforce planning and professional development for locally employed doctors.

Main duties of the job

1. Clinical Leadership and Professional Support

Provide divisional clinical leadership for locally employed doctors, ensuring they are recognised as a valued and integral part of the medical workforce.

Act as a point of contact and escalation for themes affecting locally employed doctors, including supervision, wellbeing, role clarity, training opportunities and professional development.

Promote an inclusive culture in which locally employed doctors are supported to contribute to safe, effective, patient-centred care.

Support supervisors and clinical teams to provide appropriate clinical supervision, regular feedback and timely escalation of concerns.

Champion fair and consistent access to educational, governance, audit and quality improvement opportunities.

About us

We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one or both of our innovative hospitals.

As well as generous annual leave allowance, you will have access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Job responsibilities

1. Clinical Leadership and Professional Support

Provide divisional clinical leadership for locally employed doctors, ensuring they are recognised as a valued and integral part of the medical workforce.

Act as a point of contact and escalation for themes affecting locally employed doctors, including supervision, wellbeing, role clarity, training opportunities and professional development.

Promote an inclusive culture in which locally employed doctors are supported to contribute to safe, effective, patient-centred care.

Support supervisors and clinical teams to provide appropriate clinical supervision, regular feedback and timely escalation of concerns.

Champion fair and consistent access to educational, governance, audit and quality improvement opportunities.

2. Induction, Education and Development

Work with Medical Education, Medical Staffing and specialty teams to develop and maintain a consistent divisional induction process for locally employed doctors.

Ensure locally employed doctors receive clear information about their role, responsibilities, supervision arrangements, escalation routes, rota expectations and access to Trust systems.

Support the development of clinical teaching, simulation, audit, quality improvement and portfolio opportunities appropriate to locally employed doctor roles.

Encourage engagement with appraisal, revalidation requirements and career development pathways, including progression into training, SAS roles or other career routes where appropriate.

Promote attendance at relevant governance, morbidity and mortality, teaching and departmental meetings

3. Workforce Planning, Recruitment and Retention

Support divisional oversight of the locally employed doctor workforce, including establishment, vacancies, turnover, deployment, supervision and safe staffing risks.

Work with operational, HR and medical staffing colleagues to improve recruitment processes, role descriptions, onboarding, contract clarity and retention of locally employed doctors.

Contribute to medical workforce planning discussions, ensuring locally employed doctor roles are appropriately considered within specialty workforce models.

Support services to identify where locally employed doctor posts require clearer governance, supervision, rota alignment or educational support.

Advise on opportunities to improve the experience of locally employed doctors and reduce avoidable reliance on temporary staffing where substantive roles would better support service sustainability.

4. Governance, Quality and Safety

Ensure themes affecting locally employed doctors are appropriately represented within divisional and Trust governance, workforce and quality forums, including Divisional Board and Medical Professionals Workforce and Professional Issues Meeting

Promote adherence to Trust policies, statutory and mandatory training, appraisal requirements, information governance, health and safety, safeguarding and professional standards.

Work with clinical and operational leaders to ensure escalation routes are clear when locally employed doctors raise concerns about workload, supervision, patient safety or wellbeing.

Contribute to assurance reporting as required, including updates to divisional meetings on progress, risks, achievements and improvement actions.

5. Engagement and Communication

Establish effective mechanisms for listening to and engaging with locally employed doctors across the division.

Represent locally employed doctor perspectives in relevant divisional and Trust forums.

Work collaboratively with specialty teams to share good practice and support consistent standards across services.

Promote clear communication between locally employed doctors, supervisors, rota coordinators, medical staffing and operational teams.

Support a psychologically safe culture in which concerns can be raised early and addressed constructively.

6. Expected Outcomes

A consistent and supportive divisional approach to the induction, supervision and development of locally employed doctors.

Improved visibility of locally employed doctor workforce issues, risks and opportunities.

Stronger engagement, retention and career development for locally employed doctors.

Clearer governance and escalation routes for concerns relating to supervision, wellbeing, rota experience and patient safety.

Better alignment between locally employed doctor roles, service needs, workforce planning and educational opportunities.

Qualifications and professional registration

• GMC-registered doctor with a licence to practise; substantive consultant, SAS doctor or equivalent senior medical role with credibility across clinical teams.
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education, leadership, quality improvement or healthcare management.

Clinical leadership experience

• Experience of clinical leadership, supervision, mentoring or educational support for doctors.
• Experience supporting locally employed doctors, SAS doctors, resident doctors or international medical graduates.

Knowledge and understanding

• Understanding of medical workforce challenges, safe staffing, supervision, clinical governance, appraisal and professional standards.
• Understanding of job planning, medical rostering, exception reporting and NHS

Education and development

• Ability to support teaching, feedback, induction, portfolio development and career progression for doctors.
• Experience designing induction, teaching programmes or development frameworks.

Communication and influencing

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence and work collaboratively across clinical, operational, HR and education teams.
• Experience representing workforce issues at divisional or Trust-level meetings.

Personal attributes

• Approachable, inclusive, organised and compassionate leader with a commitment to improving staff experience and patient safety.
• Experience leading change or quality improvement across multidisciplinary teams.

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.

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