Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust is looking to appoint a new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to lead our work on clinical standards, research, medical education, and to play a key part in supporting our teams to provide the best possible care to our patients, carers, and communities.

RDaSH is a little bit different, and over the next five years we hope to use that difference to really transform outcomes and tackle health inequalities as we go through a transition and period of significant development. We have worked hard to co-produce 28 Promises, real world commitments far away from the NHS-usual, that enshrine our commitment to nurture the power in our communities, and far from being an on the shelf (or off the shelf) strategy, they are the absolute currency of our work as a Board, across our Care Groups and with patients, service users and their families.

We work in three places:  North Lincolnshire, around Scunthorpe, which is a rural community south of the Humber; Rotherham on the edge of the city of Sheffield, a place with real health and social inequality but with remarkable regeneration over recent years; and the newly crowned city of Doncaster, with its cohesive tradition of general practice joint working. All in, just short of 750,000 people look to us for their mental health care – adults, kids, and older adults - and about 250,000 rely on us for physical healthcare too. We also provide autism and learning disability services across the whole patch.

Most of our services are rated Good or Outstanding, and our staff survey results consistently show that we are a good place to work. Building on this further, we want to bring a greater focus to outcomes, recruitment and retention of clinicians, and creation of clinical pathways which provide great care to service users and value for money. 

You would be joining a high calibre Board and a team that is shaping up to being recognised as the NHS’ first “community powered organisation.” We cannot do that without working better with the voluntary or third sector, nor without a deepened partnership with primary care, and that is where you come in.

We have built significant clinical leadership capacity across our organisation already, and we are determined to bring psychiatrists, geriatricians and GPs into the very heart of decision making in the Trust, and you will be at the heart of this. You will also play a leading role in shaping the vision and model for clinical services across our system, working closely with partners in the South Yorkshire, Humber and North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire, Integrated Care Systems.

RDaSH benefits from outstanding research capability and strong service-user partnerships. We want to bridge these two assets and create a listening enterprise that experiments for the right results so we can deliver services to be proud of.

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer, we actively encourage you to speak in confidence with our recruitment partners, Simon Green and Rabiya Ali at Alumni Global on 07545 741153, or visit www.alumniglobal.com/job/rdash-cmo for further information.