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Medical Director – NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Salary Range – Consultant payscale £82,669 - £109,849 plus Level 3 Management Fee £30,953
This is an exciting opportunity for you to provide medical leadership to an excellent group of doctors in Ayrshire, to join an excellent team of Directors and to provide a strategic clinical vision in the support of the Caring for Ayrshire agenda. You will need to be an inspirational leader and have experience at working at a senior level in a complex organisation.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran is an ambitious, values based organisation with a strong sense of quality, culture and values; a strong whole system identity with well-established and effective integrated working across the health and care system; a highly engaged, skilled, knowledgeable and committed workforce; and through “Caring for Ayrshire” we have a clear long term strategic vision for how we want to reform our health and care system and deliver whole system excellence, quality, and improvement to the citizens of Ayrshire.
Our aim is to create an organisation with a positive culture, where people want to work and strive for excellence each day; where staff wellbeing and personal resilience is supported; where careers are interesting and developed; where staff are encouraged to reach their full potential; and where staff feel that their contribution is recognised and valued.
To do this we need to retain, develop and support our current clinical workforce and enhance their work experience. As Medical Director you will be pivotal to ensuring the medical workforce is the best it can be, and that our recruitment and retention strategies are successful and values based. You will need to maintain professional standards at all times and promote an open, fair and just culture across the organisation.
We are looking for an inspiring individual with a broad range of strategic and professional skills, with vision, drive and passion, and who is a strategic thinker with the ability to earn the confidence and respect necessary to bring about real change within the Board as well as influencing and shaping workforce strategy at regional and national level.
You should have extensive medical experience in either Primary or Secondary care. As well as experience at Board/strategic managerial level with the NHS. Beyond your medical leadership and professional advice, you must be able to contribute across the entirety of the corporate leadership agenda and strategic objectives of the Board.
Ayrshire is a wonderful and exceptional place to have a true quality of life providing the best of all options – lovely towns and villages, city life within a short and easy commute, countryside, rolling hills, stunning beaches and sandy shores, the wonders of island life and excellent network of transport links throughout Scotland.
For a confidential discussion or to arrange to visit NHS Ayrshire and Arran, please contact John Burns, Chief Executive - 01292 513628 or john.burns3@nhs.net or Dr Alison Graham – 01292 514553 or Alison.Graham@aapct.scot.nhs.uk
Closing date for applications: Friday 24th January 2020
Interviews: Thursday 13th February 2020 (with evening Board reception on 12th February)