Role description

Strategic Accountability & Executive Leadership

• Be an integral part of the Executive Leadership sharing corporate responsibility with executive colleagues for the development of the BPAS strategy, financial and cost improvement plan.

• Lead and articulate the vision for the medical workforce, ensuring it is aligned with BPAS’s values, strategy, and long-term workforce sustainability.

• Work in partnership with the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) and Deputy Chief of Nursing, Midwifery & Quality to colead the development of BPAS’s clinical strategy.

• Provide the board with advice and expertise on policy and practice relating to clinical standards, quality and patient safety across all care pathways.

• Take board responsibility for all emergency planning and business continuity, ensuring up to date and effective plans are in place to comply with national, regional and local guidance.

• Champion evidence-based, person-centred abortion and reproductive care, rooted in ethical practice and client dignity.

• Provide the executive lead for all professional and accountability issues for medical staff, including the role of Responsible Officer for revalidation.

• Provide a professional reference for BPAS in liaison with external stakeholders and professional bodies, such as British Medical Association, Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists, Faculty of Sexual & Reproduction Health.

• Engage with key stakeholders such as ICBs, acute Trusts and other provider organisations and other external agencies to ensure an integrated health and care approach.

• Act as a medical spokesperson and advocate for reproductive healthcare, supporting public health and research initiatives related to abortion and contraception.

• Build productive relationships with regulators, professional societies, academic partners, and sector peers.

Clinical & Operational Leadership

• Provide visible leadership, development and professional accountability for doctors and medical leaders within BPAS.

• Lead the improvement of medical outcomes, patient safety, clinical standards, patient experience and medical productivity, ensuring inclusive compassionate care is provided to our patients.

• Ensure there is medical management capacity and capability to deliver excellent patient choice and care.

• Provide visible and accessible leadership to support the delivery of services.

• Embed robust systems and processes for learning, continuous improvement and innovation across BPAS services.

• Give assurance that clinical risk, incident reporting, investigations, and professional performance policies and processes are in place and effective.

• Provide positive leadership and develop and implement long term strategic workforce plans.

• Ensure the triumvirate model of working is embedded throughout the organisation.

• Be responsible for ensuring the delivery and leadership of services to patients, in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints.

• Anticipate and manage opportunities and problems through the effective use of operational performance management systems; leading recovery plans and trajectories where performance requires intervention and support.

• Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture across the medical workforce, encouraging innovation, shared learning and mutual support. Actively develop and mentor medical colleagues to enable career progression and succession into future leadership roles.

Performance Management & Professional Standards & Responsible Officer Duties

• Lead the medical team and cross organisational projects, contributing to the development of a high support high challenge culture across the organisation.

• Develop and implement workforce plans, succession planning, and performance frameworks in collaboration with the Chief People Officer.

• Ensure that there is strong culture and supporting systems in place that enables clinicians to discharge their professional obligations to raise concerns openly and safely.

• Working with the Chief People Officer embed a process for setting clear objectives, monthly one to ones and appraisals across the directorate.

• Ensure the continuous professional development and training for, is in place for all staff, supporting them to achieve revalidation and ensuring sustainable and resilient service delivery.

• Resolve issues of professional conduct, capability and performance in line with organisational policy and statutory requirements.

• Discharge statutory duties under the Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations.

• Oversee effective appraisal and job planning of connected doctors, ensuring information is shared appropriately with other Responsible Officers.

• Address concerns raised about doctors’ fitness to practise and ensure timely referrals to GMC or other regulators where necessary.

Governance & Quality

• Jointly lead clinical governance with the CCO and Deputy Chief of Nursing, Midwifery & Quality, ensuring robust systems are in place to safeguard clinical standards.

• Support the development and delivery of annual clinical governance objectives and maintain compliance with CQC and external standards.

• Encourage, support, and develop evidence-based practice, promoting and developing innovative and creative approaches to quality and performance, establishing appropriate targets and scope for continuous improvement.

• Lead on ensuring effective systems and processes are established and maintained, thereby enabling the clinical governance and risk management agenda to be delivered.

• Oversee medicines management strategy in collaboration with the Deputy Chief Pharmacist and Lead Pharmacist.

• Personally, promote a culture of openness and transparency in line with the duty of candour and ensure incidents of poor care and harm are reported and investigated openly and widely and that clear changes and improvements to practice are implemented within the agreed governance framework.

Financial Management

• Lead on cost improvement initiatives relating to the delivery of medical services and workforce.

• Undertake the development of business cases, including the assessment of implications and ensuring that a postimplementation review of approved business cases is undertaken.

• Undertake and fulfil budgetary responsibilities associated with directorate.

• Support delegated budget holders and ensure that they successfully fulfil their financial responsibilities and meet the financial competencies required in their role.

• Operate within the agreed income and expenditure budget, working to ensure financial performance is optimised.

• Provide adherence to BPAS Delegated Authorities and work with relevant colleagues to ensure that controls and processes are in place to achieve financial balance.

General

• Ensure that colleagues are treated fairly and can speak openly, behave at all times in a non-discriminatory way and challenge any behaviour of others that does not reflect the BPAS values.

• Leads by example reflecting the organisational values, committed to equity and inclusion and passionate about the development of others.

• Understands the nature of an Executive Leadership appointment, particularly responsibilities towards the governance of the organisation in line with Charities Commission, CQC and NHS England expectations and regulations.

• Adheres to BPAS Information Governance requirements, treating all information as confidential and abides by the Data Protection Act.

• Complies with the policies of the organisation including BPAS health, safety and environment.

• Adheres to BPAS Infection Control Policies and makes every effort to maintain high standards of Infection Control at all times (recognising that Infection Control is everyone’s responsibility, whether clinical or nonclinical).

• Takes responsibility to safeguard young people and to protect vulnerable adults. Ensures that policies and legislation relating to child protection and safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults are adhered to. Embodies and promotes an approach where all staff are aware of their individual responsibilities to report any safeguarding concerns and ensures they know the correct escalation and referral mechanisms in their area of work.

• Demonstrates personal commitment and contribution to effective teamwork across the full range of BPAS activities including the maintenance of effective liaison with internal and external key people and organisations.

• Values, promotes and commits to equality of opportunity, equity, diversity and inclusion. Endeavours to integrate these values into all activities.

• Attends training relevant to role and as provided, and actively and continuously reviews all work-related activities to contribute and suggest areas for improvement.

• Undertakes any other tasks which are commensurate with the level and responsibilities of the post.