# Medical Director

**Company**: Priorygroup
**Location**: Blackburn, Lancashire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £180,000 per annum, plus a £10,000 stipend
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Priory Hospital Kemple View has an opportunity for a Medical Director to join their team.

Located in Blackburn, Lancashire, Priory Hospital Kemple View is a 90-bedded hospital, offering level 2 rehabilitation, and secure services, for adult males. They support people with a mental health condition and/or a personality disorder.

The Medical Director role involves providing professional leadership to the medical workforce and strategic direction across the site. The successful candidate will champion clinical excellence, effective governance, and a positive, supportive culture.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing professional leadership to the medical workforce and strategic direction across the site

- Championing clinical excellence, effective governance, and a positive, supportive culture

- Overseeing medical workforce management, including appraisals, rotas, annual leave, recruitment, and clinical cover

- Leading on clinical governance, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance, including CQC inspections

- Supporting and developing medical colleagues through supervision, mentoring, CPD, and development planning

- Working closely with the Hospital Director and wider Senior Management Team to drive service improvement and strategic priorities

- Providing leadership on complex clinical matters and contributing to the delivery of safe, evidence-based patient care

- Supporting organisational change, innovation, and service development across the hospital

The role requires:

- GMC registration and inclusion on the Specialist Register

- Significant senior clinical experience within psychiatry

- Strong clinical leadership and people management skills

- Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills

- Commitment to clinical governance, quality improvement, and compassionate leadership

Desirable experience includes:

- Previous experience in a clinical leadership or medical management role

- Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams

- Experience with clinical governance, quality improvement, and regulatory inspections

- Experience managing organisational change and service development

- Understanding of financial management and commercial awareness within healthcare

The benefits package includes:

- Birthday Holiday - your birthday as an extra day's annual leave

- Enhanced maternity pay

- Contributory pension scheme

- Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones), and Healthcare Cash Plan (Simply Health Scheme)

- Access to development opportunities

- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through the Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

- Leadership & management development

- Long service award

- Refer a friend bonuses

## Skills

### Required
- GMC registration
- Specialist Register
- psychiatry
- clinical leadership
- people management
- communication
- presentation
- influencing
- clinical governance
- quality improvement
- compassionate leadership

### Nice to have
- medical management
- multidisciplinary teams
- regulatory inspections
- organisational change
- service development
- financial management
- commercial awareness

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