Associate Medical Director - Patient Engagement
Job Summary
Collaboration and innovation is at the heart of everything we do and we seek an Associate Medical Director for Patient Engagement that shares this commitment.
As OTDT Associate Medical Director for Patient Engagement, you will play a key role in supporting the current OTDT Medical Director by providing leadership and professional input with regards patient engagement and involvement, within the Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation directorate, as well as the wider donation and transplantation community.
In addition to supporting the OTDT Medical Director, the AMD for Patient Engagement will have a key role in the OTDT Clinical Team, and will be expected to support in the delivery of our strategies- Organ Donation and Transplantation 2030: Meeting the Need, Tissue & Eye Services Strategy 2023-26, as well as supporting other national patient engagement and involvement initiatives.
The role requires a proven track record of delivering sustained change within and beyond your specialism, as well as good communication skills and innovative leadership, in order to contribute to our key projects and programmes.
About Us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.
By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Tuesday 26th August.
Interviews are anticipated to be held Tuesday 9th / Wednesday 10th September subject to confirmation
For informal enquiries please contact MDOfficePAs@nhsbt.nhs.uk.