[Hiring] Clinical Director Genomic Medicine Service -Population Health @The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

The NEY GMS brings together regional Clinical and Laboratory Partners, all working together to improve health and equity of access to genomic tests, diagnosis and related treatments for patients in the region.

The NEY GMS is led by four partner trusts:

• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

There are around 500 medical, scientific, technologist, counselling and support staff focused entirely on Genomics. They support a much larger network of mainstream clinicians including Oncologists, Pathologists, Neurologists, Obstetricians, Paediatricians, Nurses and Pharmacists who use genomic diagnosis to support clinical decision making and improve patient care.

The NEY GMS is governed via a partnership arrangement that is delivered by a regional GMS executive team which has operational responsibility for the quality of services. The GMS executive team is accountable to the NEY GMS Partnership Board which includes representation from partner Trusts.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading service transformation
• Strategic insight to drive innovation across complex healthcare systems
• Clinical and scientific credibility
• Strong executive leadership

Requirements

• Ability to shape regional and national agendas
• Build effective partnerships across organisational boundaries
• Deliver measurable improvements in quality, access, and patient outcomes

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Support for pioneering clinical practice
• State-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology

Company Description

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With a strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency.