# Medical Director

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As Divisional Medical Director, you will share accountability for all aspects of the Diggory Division alongside the Managing Director and Director of Nursing. You will provide strong, compassionate clinical leadership, helping to shape the strategy, culture, and future direction of mental health services within the Directorate.

You will be central to our transformation journey, ensuring clinical quality, developing the next generation of clinical leaders, and embedding research and innovation across services. You will represent CNWL in key system forums, influence regional strategy, and champion the delivery of high-quality, inclusive care.

The postholder will be based in London but will be expected to maintain a regular and visible presence across the full geographical footprint of Diggory Division, including services in Milton Keynes and Surrey. This is a fundamental requirement of the role, ensuring accessible clinical leadership, effective engagement with staff and service users, and strong relationships with local partners.

The Medical Director will have corporate responsibilities which will vary from time to time and scope. The Medical Director will work alongside the Managing Director and Director of Nursing to ensure safe, effective and timely care across Diggory services, including effective patient flow through inpatient and community mental health pathways, using quality improvement and clinically led processes and systems.

The Diggory Medical Director is responsible, through line management and professional leadership of Clinical Directors and for ensuring all aspects of medical governance are adhered to, including effective recruitment, job planning, annual appraisal and revalidation, and management of performance concerns relating to medical and dental staff within the Division.

The Diggory Medical Director will support the development of medical and clinical leadership within the Division. The Diggory Medical Director will work closely with the Director of Medical Education to support resident doctors and medical students and embed a culture of learning within the Division.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic and operational leadership skills
- understanding of the work and priorities of a NHS trust
- solid understanding of all governance issues
- highly developed operational management skills
- highly developed interpersonal and communication skills

### Nice to have
- qualification in Business/Medical Management
- experience of business planning in complex organisations
- demonstrable experience of financial and budgetary management

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