Chief Medical Officers, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest providers of integrated hospital and community-based healthcare providing a comprehensive range of local and tertiary services to the residents of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Mid Yorkshire and North Derbyshire and also some highly specialist services to all parts of England.

We have a history of delivering high quality care, training and developing high calibre multidisciplinary health professionals, clinical excellence and innovation in medical research.

We have a budget of £1.5billion and deliver over two million patient contacts every year thanks to the support of our 20,000 staff.

Dear candidate
Thank you for your interest in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STH). This is a significant time for STH, with the retirement of both of our highly regarded and well respected Chief Medical Officers, and a rare opportunity to create a new executive medical leadership team to help take us forward on our journey for patient centred care and the best clinical outcomes, delivered through excellent research, education, and innovation, with a resolute focus on quality, safety and effectiveness.
We are one of UK’s largest, busiest and most complex NHS foundation trusts, providing a wide range of hospital and community services for the people of Shefﬁeld, as well as specialist care for patients from much further aﬁeld. Our 19,000 plus staff work, both in the community, and in ﬁve of the country’s leading teaching hospitals. As a member of the Shelford Group, a collaboration between ten of the largest teaching and research-intensive NHS hospital trusts in England, we have a long history of providing high quality care and clinical excellence, as well as an international reputation for innovation in medical research and education.
Our tradition of clinical, academic and scientiﬁc achievements has been strengthened by developing one of the UK’s ﬁrst Academic Health Science Networks. We have an especially close partnership with The University of Shefﬁeld, Shefﬁeld Hallam University, and other partners in industry to ensure we remain at the forefront of advancements in clinical services, education, and research. Equally important to us are the partnerships we have forged with local people, patients, partner NHS organisations, the local authority, and charitable bodies. Our people are critical to us and if we are to be an outstanding organisation, we need to become a beacon of excellence; ensuring we recruit and retain the best possible people to lead our highly committed workforce and maximise our ability to care for the people who rely on our services.
We are now appointing two new Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), one for Operations, and one for Development, to join our stable and high performing executive team. The CMO (Operations) will take the executive lead on all aspects of quality and safety, medical workforce development and leadership, and work closely with our Clinical Directors to ensure assurance and support for all aspects of clinical services. Meanwhile, the CMO (Development) will lead our advancement as a digitally enabled healthcare provider, including artificial intelligence and innovation, as well as medical education, research, service development, change, and transformation. Both CMOs will be members of the Shelford Group Medical Director’s group and work interchangeably with a wide range of external organisations and agencies to support partnership working and collaboration, clinical pathway redesign and represent STH on the wider stage. As one of the most senior clinical leaders in the NHS, your expertise and leadership will be crucial in providing leadership across STH and the wider system, as well as shaping and influencing strategic direction at the national level.
We are open to talented and ambitious medical leaders who bring intellect, commitment and energy. People who have experience of working at a senior level in complex healthcare settings, with considerable focus on partnership working, collaboration and delivery, quality of care and service delivery, and a drive for innovation and improvement, alongside which, a natural empathy with our organisational values is essential:
Patients first
Ensure that the people we service are at the heart of all that we do
Respectful
Be kind, respectful, fair and value diversity
Ownership
Celebrate our successes, learn continuously and ensure we improve
Unity
Work in partnership with others
Deliver
Be efficient, effective and accountable for our actions
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is a highly inclusive organisation and invites applicants from all backgrounds, and would encourage you to review this site and speak in confidence with our partners at Alumni Global, to explore the prospect of joining us as one of our two new Chief Medical Officers.
Kirsten Major
Chief Executive
Integrated Community Services
As an integrated provider of healthcare services, we deliver a comprehensive range of adult community and primary healthcare services across the city and within local community hubs to make accessing services more convenient to patients.
The Northern General Hospital
The Northern General Hospital is the home of the city’s adult Accident and Emergency Department, which is also one of three Major Trauma Centres for the Yorkshire and Humber region. A number of specialist medical and surgical services are also located at the Northern General Hospital including cardiac, orthopaedics, burns, plastic surgery, spinal injuries and renal.
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
The Royal Hallamshire Hospital has a dedicated regional Neurosciences department including an Intensive Care Unit for patients with head injuries, neurological conditions such as stroke and for patients who have undergone neurosurgery. It also has a large Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Unit as well as a specialist Haematology Centre and other medical and surgical services.
Charles Clifford Dental Services
A large dental teaching hospital linked to the University of Sheffield's School of Clinical Dentistry and providing specialist dental services for Sheffield and the surrounding areas. Community & special care dentistry provides dental care in various community settings for patients who do not receive their dental treatment in local dental practices.
Jessop Wing
A purpose-built maternity unit that provides a comprehensive range of tertiary maternity services. The Jessop Wing also provides neonatal intensive care and special care facilities for sick and premature babies born in Sheffield and those transferred from other units in the region. It is also home to the Jessop Assisted Conception unit.
Weston Park Cancer Centre
One of only four dedicated cancer hospitals in the country, Weston Park Cancer Centre includes a successful radiotherapy department serving South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw, North Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire. It is equipped to support the 6,000 new cases of cancer diagnosed annually
in this region, providing outpatient and inpatient care including provision of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy treatments for patients from across the region.
Networked Services
We are a major tertiary centre for South Yorkshire, Bassettlaw and North Derbyshire and beyond including, Major Trauma, Neuosciences, Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Oncology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Radiology, Spinal Injuries, Burns, Robotic Surgery, Sarcoma, Ocular Oncology, Hepatitis C, and Plastic Surgery. Complementing the services we provide on our physical estate, we also provide many services across the broader geography in order that a resilient network of secondary and tertiary services can be delivered as locally as possible for patients.
A fifth of our consultants also work in partnership in local hospitals in particular Barnsley, Chesterfield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Children’s.
Click below to read the role descriptions:
Chief Medical Officer - Development
Chief Medical Officer - Operations
All applications must include:
• A full curriculum vitae/resume
• Quoting the role reference number:
Chief Medical Officer - Development: A039930
Chief Medical Officer - Operations: A039918
• A covering letter highlighting the aspects of the job description and STH that particularly attract you to the post (Microsoft Word document)
• Contact details for three referees, these will not be contacted without your permission. (References should validate a minimum period of six years employment)
• A completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (which you will be redirected to once you have submitted your application) *
Right to work checks
If you are successfully shortlisted, our partner, Yoti, will contact you to complete an online right to work check. This is a quick and secure process, ensuring that all necessary legal requirements are met before proceeding further in the recruitment process.
Monitoring
One of Alumni Global’s and STH's objectives is to ensure that its workforce is reflective of the local community and therefore we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. So that we can successfully achieve these aims, while it is not mandatory we would encourage every applicant to complete the “Equal Opportunities Monitoring form” so that we can measure the effectiveness of our efforts. The Recruiting Manager does not have access to the Monitoring Information Sections of the application form at any stage of the process and the information provided will be kept entirely confidential.
For a confidential discussion on this role please contact:
Simon Green, Director, Rabiya Ali, Consultant or David Heaton, Principal Researcher whose details can be found at the bottom of this microsite.
Candidate adjustment
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the recruitment process please can you advise us so that we can ensure this is accommodated.
Closing Date: 24th November 2024
Final Interview: 10th December 2024