Role Summary
The postholder will support the Director of Service Improvement and wider Transformation Team in tackling complex problems across the range of our acute and community services and engaging all clinical staff to ensure that there is a strong clinical voice in everything we do. The AMD will also establish a Healthcare Science Forum to provide a route for innovation in this complex field and support the development of technology, such as artificial intelligence.
About the Role
We will work with you to help you be the best version of you at work.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays. Our Medical workforce has separate arrangements.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, physiotherapy, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
Associate Medical Director - Transformation
If you look at the scale and complexity of the challenges we face as a new organisation, it is clear that we need to think differently, be prepared to innovate, take risks and invest in change. In support of this, the Trust’s approach to transformation is shifting to be clinically and operationally led, with close working with our digital teams. We are aiming to foster a culture of great ideas from staff, supported by expertise in change management to adopt and spread change rapidly. A key element of this is the recruitment of a Associate Medical Director for Transformation to provide senior clinical leadership and engagement to change programmes.
The postholder will support the Director of Service Improvement and wider Transformation Team in tackling complex problems across the range of our acute and community services and engaging all clinical staff to ensure that there is a strong clinical voice in everything we do. The AMD will also establish a Healthcare Science Forum to provide a route for innovation in this complex field and support the development of technology, such as artificial intelligence.
We are seeking a clinical leader with a proven track record of leadership and innovation, as well as someone who is able to support and challenge clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels of the organisation.
Interested individuals are welcome to discuss the role with Phil Luke, Director of Service Improvement or Adrian Harris, Chief Medical Officer.
The role is a 5 PA post and offers great flexibility in terms of working hours and remote working.
This is a fixed term contract for 60 months. For current NHS employees this post could be a secondment opportunity.
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
