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