Consultant Scientific Director

at  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a Consultant Scientific Director to lead on research and innovation within Cardiovascular Services, across the GM&EC Vascular Network and to provide expert vascular scientist leadership across the network.

1. To provide leadership and professional guidance to a broad range of highly specialist clinical/scientific/technical services which can be complex, routine and non-routine, in the field of vascular science/clinical diagnostic services, across the network.
2. Provide strategic direction and expert professional leadership across the group/network.
3. Delivers specialist Consultant vascular scientist activities; provides expert advice, opinion and leadership to other professionals; may act as clinical scientific lead across the network.
4. Provides primary source of expert vascular scientific advice, opinions, training/teaching/education to own and other professions in specialist area of activity with significant impact across the group/network.
5. Initiates, leads/directs and develops research and innovation in specialist field with national/international impact across the group/network.
6. To direct/lead and manage the introduction of new, improved and optimised methods, techniques and service improvements utilising best available evidence, national guidelines, results from research, development and internal audit across the group/network.
7. To co-lead the services and resources of MAVRIC ensuring that services meet accreditation standards and are delivered in a timely manner, within budget by trained and competent staff with clear objectives. Ensure that resources are available as appropriate through service planning.
   MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
   Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
   We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
   We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
   At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
   To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘ Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
   Diversity Matters
   MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk .
   We’re looking forward to hearing from you