• Job Description

  Req#: C9201-25-0662?language=en&page=1183&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  To apply for this role, please click link below or copy and paste to your browser: https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe123860/Chief-Medical-Officer/

  Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CFT) is seeking an exceptional Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to join our executive leadership team. This is a pivotal opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare in one of the most distinctive and beautiful regions of the UK.

  Main duties of the job

  The successful candidate will be a senior medical leader (ideally a psychiatrist) with experience on or near board-level experience in a complex healthcare environment, a proven track record of delivering high-quality results, and a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in mental health and learning disabilities services. They will be responsible for overseeing medical education, clinical governance, research and development, and the implementation of quality improvement initiatives.

  About us

  We are an NHS community and mental health provider trust supporting the health and wellbeing of over 570,000 local people who call Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly home, with demand for our services inevitably increasing during holiday periods. Our care is delivered to people at home, in the community and in hospital - we operate from 100 sites with clinical teams working across four operational service lines. We have an enthusiastic and passionate workforce of over 4,500 people, who are all dedicated to delivering our vision of Outstanding Care for All. Our culture and values place people at the heart of everything we do.

  Details

  Date posted

  02 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Very senior manager (VSM)

  Salary

  Depending on experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  201-25-503

  Job locations

  Carew House

  Bodmin

  PL31 2QN

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For more information about us, the role and to apply, please follow the link below:

  https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe123860/Chief-Medical-Officer/

  Recruitment Timetable

  Closing dateWednesday 20th August 2025

  Preliminary interviewsWednesday 27th/Thursday 28th August 2025

  Final Panel Interview and Stakeholder SessionsMonday 8th September 2025

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For more information about us, the role and to apply, please follow the link below:

  https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe123860/Chief-Medical-Officer/

  Recruitment Timetable

  Closing dateWednesday 20th August 2025

  Preliminary interviewsWednesday 27th/Thursday 28th August 2025

  Final Panel Interview and Stakeholder SessionsMonday 8th September 2025

  Person Specification

  Education, qualifications and relevant experience

  Essential

  • Medical graduate
  • Higher medical professional qualification
  • Unblemished registration with GMC and a licence to practice
  • Substantial experience at board level in a relevant health organisation
  • Exceptional leader with demonstrable management experience
  • Experienced in building organisational capabilities, clear visions and proven successful outcomes
  • Experience of leading a large, complex organisation through significant change

  Knowledge and abilities

  Essential

  • In-depth understanding of the complexity in providing secondary healthcare
  • High levels of financial awareness and business acumen
  • An understanding of the key NHS policies shaping both national and local priorities and performance management in general
  • Detailed understanding of the government's modernisation agenda for the NHS and implications for the future development of mental health and learning disabilities

  Skills and aptitude

  Essential

  • Awareness of the primary interests and concerns of difference groups of health and social care professional working in mental health and learning disabilities services
  • Exceptional ability to assimilate and identify inter-relationships between service cost, activity and quality information, think creatively and report and present effectively at strategic level
  • Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse, constantly evolving work programme and able to plan and deliver complex objectives to deadline

  Person Specification

  Education, qualifications and relevant experience

  Essential

  • Medical graduate
  • Higher medical professional qualification
  • Unblemished registration with GMC and a licence to practice
  • Substantial experience at board level in a relevant health organisation
  • Exceptional leader with demonstrable management experience
  • Experienced in building organisational capabilities, clear visions and proven successful outcomes
  • Experience of leading a large, complex organisation through significant change

  Knowledge and abilities

  Essential

  • In-depth understanding of the complexity in providing secondary healthcare
  • High levels of financial awareness and business acumen
  • An understanding of the key NHS policies shaping both national and local priorities and performance management in general
  • Detailed understanding of the government's modernisation agenda for the NHS and implications for the future development of mental health and learning disabilities

  Skills and aptitude

  Essential

  • Awareness of the primary interests and concerns of difference groups of health and social care professional working in mental health and learning disabilities services
  • Exceptional ability to assimilate and identify inter-relationships between service cost, activity and quality information, think creatively and report and present effectively at strategic level
  • Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse, constantly evolving work programme and able to plan and deliver complex objectives to deadline

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Carew House

  Bodmin

  PL31 2QN

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Carew House

  Bodmin

  PL31 2QN

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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