# Deputy Chief Medical Officer in Safety and Clinical Governance **Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: temporary **Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9259-26-1853?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e6c63f90-6fa ## Description The Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) for Safety and Clinical Governance is a senior leadership role within the Chief Medical Officer's portfolio, providing strategic oversight, clinical leadership, and executive assurance across key patient safety, regulatory, and specialist clinical governance functions. The post holder will lead and coordinate a defined set of safety-critical and statutory clinical governance workstreams, ensuring robust oversight, consistency of standards, and effective escalation to the CMO and relevant executive and Board committees. The role plays a core part in assuring the Trust Board that high-risk, high-impact areas of clinical practice are well governed, data-informed, and aligned to national expectations. The portfolio encompasses a broad and interconnected set of safety-critical governance workstreams and quality and safety programmes, reflecting the breadth of oversight required to ensure safe, effective and compliant care, while providing flexibility for the Chief Medical Officer to shape and evolve priorities in response to emerging risks, regulatory expectations and organisational strategy. **Main duties of the job** - Provide senior medical leadership and executive oversight for designated safety-critical and statutory clinical governance portfolios, holding clear accountability for the effective oversight of patient safety across all Trust sites and services. - Lead the development and delivery of a coherent, Trust-wide approach to safety and clinical governance, ensuring that risks are identified early, managed proactively, and escalated appropriately, with clear line of sight from ward to Board. - Provide medical leadership and oversight of a consistent and high-performing governance structures, with clearly defined accountabilities and robust escalation routes for high-risk clinical areas, enabling timely clinical decision-making and strong organisational assurance. - Provide strategic medical oversight of the Trust's Quality and Safety Strategy, ensuring full alignment with the Trust's Clinical Strategy, workforce strategy and assurance frameworks, and supporting Barts Health's ambition to be an exemplar organisation for safety, quality and governance. - Work in close partnership with the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nurse, Director of Quality, Hospital Medical Directors and executive colleagues to deliver an integrated and effective clinical governance framework, recognising the interdependencies between safety, workforce capacity and operational delivery. **About us** The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. **Benefits** - The post is part of the Hospital medical and dental staff pay scheme. - The salary range is £113,565 to £150,569 a year. - The contract is fixed term for 36 months. - The working pattern is part-time. **Requirements** - Worked clinically at a senior level for at least 5 years. - Substantive senior doctor. - Significant experience in a senior leadership position in an NHS organisation. - Demonstrable experience of using quality, safety and performance intelligence to inform executive decision-making and governance assurance. - Significant experience of senior medical leadership in patient safety, clinical governance and assurance. - Demonstrable experience in leading meaningful collaborations with clinicians and multidisciplinary teams. - Demonstrable experience of leading significant programmes of work and change initiatives in partnership with a range of stakeholders. - Demonstrable experience of overseeing the effective use of clinical data, registries or surveillance systems. - Exceptional influencing and negotiating skills, able to promote innovative approaches to transformational change. - Expertise in systems-thinking, data-driven decision-making, quality improvement methodology, clinical informatics, and strategic transformation leadership. - Track record of innovation. - Track record of managing and developing staff. - Track record of addressing poor performance. ## Skills ### Required - leadership - clinical governance - patient safety - quality improvement - data analysis - strategic thinking ### Nice to have - management qualification - quality improvement qualification --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9259-26-1853?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)