# Clinical Chair

**Company**: Fairfield Hospital, part of Circle Health Group
**Location**: St Helens
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: Up to £112,500.00 FTE per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Clinical Chair to join the team at Fairfield Independent Hospital in St Helens, part of Circle Health Group. This is a part-time role for 4 hours a week, with a flexible shift pattern, and is fixed-term for 24 months. The successful candidate will be paid up to £112,500.00 FTE per year, depending on level of experience, training, and qualification.

The Clinical Chair will be responsible for:

- Chairing the Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) and ensuring effective medical input into hospital governance and strategic decisions

- Chairing the Hospital Clinical Governance Committee and participating in Senior Management Team meetings

- Building a culture of quality, safety, and continuous improvement with the Executive Director, Director of Clinical Services, and MAC members

- Representing medical interests at hospital and corporate leadership levels

- Engaging with external stakeholders, including NHS partners, GPs, private payors, and patient representatives

- Ensuring robust systems of clinical governance are in place

- Providing assurance to the hospital leadership team on compliance in clinical safety, effectiveness, patient experience, responsiveness, and leadership

- Overseeing the development and implementation of clinical improvement and audit programmes

- Ensuring alignment with national and international clinical standards and guidance

- Providing senior medical advice on innovation, new treatments, and service improvements

- Supporting the Executive Director in managing clinical complaints and incidents

To be considered for this role, applicants should:

- Be a GMC-registered medical practitioner with a licence to practise

- Have substantive consultant-level experience with proven leadership responsibilities

- Demonstrate expertise in clinical governance, audit, and risk management

- Have experience chairing high-level committees

- Possess strong communication, influencing, and interpersonal skills

- Be able to work effectively as part of a senior leadership team

- Be committed to safeguarding, equality, diversity, and inclusion

Circle Health Group offers a range of employee benefits, including:

- 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service

- Private Pension Scheme

- Private Healthcare Scheme

- Friends & Family Hospital Discounts

- Family Friendly policies

- Non-contributory life insurance

- Staff engagement hub with access to discounts and rewards

- Access to resources, tools, and services to support wellbeing

- Employee recognition programmes

- Industry-leading training and development opportunities

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## Skills

### Required
- GMC registration
- medical practice
- clinical governance
- audit
- risk management
- leadership
- communication
- influencing
- interpersonal skills

### Nice to have
- previous experience as a Clinical Chair
- Medical Director
- senior governance lead
- leadership or management qualification
- experience in NHS and independent healthcare sectors

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