Skylight Psychiatry
Medical Director
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Medical Director
Reports to: Clinical Team Lead
Salary: Competitive
Location: Basingstoke - Hybrid (with occasional travel to office as required)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (0.8 FTE can be considered)
About Skylight Psychiatry
Skylight Psychiatry is a forward-thinking, dynamic, and growing mental health service. We are CQC registered and provide person-centred assessment, care, and support for people with neurodevelopmental conditions, including ADHD and autism.
As Skylight continues to grow and develop new service lines, we are seeking an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist and clinical leader to provide senior clinical leadership across the organisation.
Role Purpose
The Medical Director is Skylight Psychiatry's senior medical and clinical leader at the organisational level. The postholder will be an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist.
Working as a key member of the Senior Management Team, the Medical Director will provide strategic clinical leadership across Skylight's services, ensuring that clinical quality, safety, and patient outcomes remain central to organisational decision-making and service development.
The role will provide senior clinical input into clinical governance, quality and risk, service development, and clinical strategy, while supporting and developing clinical leaders across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Medical & Clinical Leadership
- Act as the senior clinical leader across Skylight Psychiatry.
- Provide strategic clinical advice to the Managing Director, Senior Management Team, and Board as required.
- Play an active role within the Senior Management Team, contributing to organisational strategy, priorities, and decision-making.
- Develop and oversee Skylight's clinical strategy in line with organisational growth and service development.
- Provide senior clinical oversight and escalation where complex or significant clinical issues arise.
- Ensure clear and effective clinical leadership arrangements exist across individual services and pathways.
- Support, challenge, and develop clinical leads, promoting appropriate clinical accountability and distributed leadership.
- Promote a culture in which high-quality, safe, and evidence-based care is embedded throughout the organisation.
Clinical Governance, Quality & Safety
- Provide senior clinical leadership within Skylight's clinical governance arrangements and contribute actively to Clinical Governance meetings.
- Ensure effective clinical governance standards and systems operate across all services.
- Provide senior oversight of medical governance and professional standards across the organisation, ensuring appropriate arrangements for medical practice, accountability, and escalation.
- Provide senior clinical input into organisational risk management, safeguarding, incidents, complaints, and learning.
- Lead and contribute to clinical audit, quality assurance, and outcome measurement.
- Ensure learning from audit, incidents, complaints, patient experience, and other quality information translates into improvements in clinical practice.
- Support organisational readiness for CQC inspection and ensure services operate in accordance with relevant regulatory and professional standards.
- Promote continuous improvement, reflective practice, and organisational learning.
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Clinical Services & Pathway Development
- Provide senior clinical oversight of Skylight's existing clinical pathways.
- Lead the clinical development of new services and pathways as the organisation expands.
- Ensure clinical models, pathways, and protocols are evidence-based, safe, effective, and appropriate for the populations served.
- Work collaboratively with operational, quality, commissioning, and other leaders to ensure clinical and operational models are aligned.
- Provide senior clinical input into tenders, commissioning opportunities, and service mobilisation where required.
- Support innovation and appropriate use of technology and digital approaches within clinical care.
Medical & Multidisciplinary Leadership
- Provide senior medical leadership across the organisation.
- Work closely with Consultant Psychiatrists and other senior clinicians, ensuring appropriate medical and multidisciplinary leadership within individual services.
- Support effective multidisciplinary working and appropriate clinical decision-making structures.
- Provide senior advice and escalation for complex clinical matters where required.
- Contribute to the recruitment, development, and retention of high-quality medical and clinical professionals.
- Support appropriate clinical supervision, appraisal, professional development, and clinical leadership development across the organisation.
External & Stakeholder Engagement
- Represent Skylight Psychiatry professionally with commissioners, ICBs, regulators, and other external stakeholders as appropriate.
- Develop constructive senior clinical relationships with key partners.
- Represent Skylight at relevant professional meetings, forums, and events.
- Contribute to Skylight's reputation as a high-quality provider of neurodevelopmental services.
Clinical Practice
- Maintain an appropriate clinical practice alongside Medical Director responsibilities, as agreed within the job plan.
- Provide expert clinical input in areas aligned with experience and service requirements.
- Maintain appropriate professional registration, revalidation, and continuing professional development.
- Model high standards of clinical practice and professional behaviour.
Person Specification
Essential
- GMC-registered Consultant Psychiatrist with a current licence to practise and inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in Psychiatry.
- Significant experience within ADHD, autism, and/or wider neurodevelopmental services.
- Significant experience working at Consultant Psychiatrist level.
- Demonstrable senior clinical leadership experience.
- Strong experience of clinical governance, quality, and patient safety.
- Experience of contributing to service development and improvement.
- Ability to provide credible senior clinical leadership across multidisciplinary services and professional groups.
- Strong understanding of safeguarding, clinical risk, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Ability to operate effectively at senior organisational level and contribute to strategic and operational decision-making.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to balance clinical quality, patient experience, operational requirements, and organisational priorities.
- Commitment to high-quality, evidence-based, and patient-centred care.
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Desirable
- Current approval under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983.
- Previous Medical Director, Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director, or equivalent senior medical leadership experience.
- Experience within CQC-regulated independent healthcare.
- Experience working with NHS commissioners and/or ICBs.
- Experience developing or mobilising new clinical services and pathways.
- Experience supporting organisational growth and change.
- Additional qualifications or formal development in medical leadership, management, quality improvement, or service development.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, dependent on experience.
- Full-time permanent appointment, with 0.8 FTE considered for the right candidate.
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements appropriate to the seniority of the role.
- Administrative and operational support.
- Opportunity to shape clinical strategy within a growing organisation.
- Significant influence over the development of existing and new clinical services.
- Work-related electronic devices.
- Company pension.
- Employee Assistance programme.
- Birthday off as additional leave.
- Company events and other employee benefits.
How to Apply
Please submit both your CV and a cover letter outlining your reasons for applying for this role. Please note that due to the high volume of applications anticipated, we will be unable to contact all applicants individually unless shortlisted. If you have not been contacted within a month of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you.
At Skylight Psychiatry, we are committed to fostering a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential. We recognise that diverse teams encourage creativity and productivity, so we warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. We encourage candidates to apply regardless of age, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Together, we create an environment that values and celebrates diversity!
Job Types: Full-time Permanent
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