Chief Registrar - Medicine
Slough, England, United Kingdom Contract Posted 2 weeks ago
Job Overview
Are you a passionate and motivated higher specialty trainee ready to take on a senior leadership challenge? We are excited to invite applications for the prestigious Chief Registrar role – a unique and highly rewarding opportunity to develop strategic leadership skills while making a meaningful impact on patient care, workforce wellbeing, and service innovation.
This role offers a minimum of 40% protected time away from clinical duties, enabling you to focus on leading and delivering high-impact local initiatives.
As Chief Registrar, you will drive improvements in key areas such as:
In addition, you will be enrolled in a bespoke, nationally recognised leadership and management development programme delivered by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), beginning in August/September 2026. This structured programme provides the tools, mentorship, and network to help you thrive as a future leader in the NHS.
This is a career-defining opportunity for doctors looking to broaden their impact, contribute to healthcare innovation, and build the leadership capabilities essential for consultant-level roles and beyond.
Main duties of the job
As a Chief Registrar, you will take on a pivotal leadership role, helping to shape the future of patient care and medical education. With a minimum of 40% protected time for non-clinical work, this is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on leadership experience and drive meaningful change.
Your responsibilities will include acting as a key link between junior doctors, senior leaders, and managers to foster collaboration and engagement. You will lead quality improvement initiatives, enhance education and training, support workforce planning, and influence service redesign across the organisation.
All activities should place patient safety and high-quality, compassionate care at their core, in line with the principles of the Future Hospital Commission report: Future Hospital – Caring for Medical Patients (2013).
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
This prestigious leadership opportunity is open to doctors currently holding a National Training Number (NTN) and enrolled in a medical specialty training programme, ideally one that includes Internal Medicine. While participation in the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Chief Registrar Leadership and Management Development Programme is primarily designed for those in internal medicine-related specialties, enrolment is not strictly limited to these pathways.
The Chief Registrar role may be undertaken either in-programme or out-of-programme (for training [OOPT] or experience [OOPE]), depending on individual training needs and local workforce considerations.
Where appropriate, any necessary extension to the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) will be negotiated and agreed upon locally, with the involvement of the Head of School. For OOPT arrangements, approval from the relevant Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) will be required.
Prospective applicants must discuss their interest in the Chief Registrar role with both their Educational Supervisor and Training Programme Director (TPD) at an early stage. Formal permission to apply must be obtained from the TPD prior to submitting an application.
In line with GMC requirements, the Chief Registrar post must be undertaken at a site that is GMC-approved for training in the applicant’s specialty, ensuring the role continues to support their broader development as a future consultant and clinical leader.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
Are you a passionate and motivated higher specialty trainee ready to take on a senior leadership challenge? We are excited to invite applications for the prestigious Chief Registrar role – a unique and highly rewarding opportunity to develop strategic leadership skills while making a meaningful impact on patient care, workforce wellbeing, and service innovation.
This role offers a minimum of 40% protected time away from clinical duties, enabling you to focus on leading and delivering high-impact local initiatives.
As Chief Registrar, you will drive improvements in key areas such as:
- Service transformation and redesign
- Workforce planning and morale
- Education and training development
- Staff engagement and wellbeing
In addition, you will be enrolled in a bespoke, nationally recognised leadership and management development programme delivered by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), beginning in August/September 2026. This structured programme provides the tools, mentorship, and network to help you thrive as a future leader in the NHS.
This is a career-defining opportunity for doctors looking to broaden their impact, contribute to healthcare innovation, and build the leadership capabilities essential for consultant-level roles and beyond.
Main duties of the job
As a Chief Registrar, you will take on a pivotal leadership role, helping to shape the future of patient care and medical education. With a minimum of 40% protected time for non-clinical work, this is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on leadership experience and drive meaningful change.
Your responsibilities will include acting as a key link between junior doctors, senior leaders, and managers to foster collaboration and engagement. You will lead quality improvement initiatives, enhance education and training, support workforce planning, and influence service redesign across the organisation.
All activities should place patient safety and high-quality, compassionate care at their core, in line with the principles of the Future Hospital Commission report: Future Hospital – Caring for Medical Patients (2013).
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
This prestigious leadership opportunity is open to doctors currently holding a National Training Number (NTN) and enrolled in a medical specialty training programme, ideally one that includes Internal Medicine. While participation in the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Chief Registrar Leadership and Management Development Programme is primarily designed for those in internal medicine-related specialties, enrolment is not strictly limited to these pathways.
The Chief Registrar role may be undertaken either in-programme or out-of-programme (for training [OOPT] or experience [OOPE]), depending on individual training needs and local workforce considerations.
Where appropriate, any necessary extension to the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) will be negotiated and agreed upon locally, with the involvement of the Head of School. For OOPT arrangements, approval from the relevant Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) will be required.
Prospective applicants must discuss their interest in the Chief Registrar role with both their Educational Supervisor and Training Programme Director (TPD) at an early stage. Formal permission to apply must be obtained from the TPD prior to submitting an application.
In line with GMC requirements, the Chief Registrar post must be undertaken at a site that is GMC-approved for training in the applicant’s specialty, ensuring the role continues to support their broader development as a future consultant and clinical leader.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- Full registration with the GMC
- Understands the principles and practice of audit
- Further qualification e.g MRCP or DGM
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage stroke patients including emergencies
- Ability to clinically evaluate a patient, formulating a prioritized differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment
- Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision where appropriate
- Previous experience of participating in teaching
- Evidence of involvement of significant service change associated with audit
- Previous participation in MRCP and DGM teaching
Essential criteria
- Competence in managing medical emergencies
- Evidence of clinical competencies in their medical specialty appropriate for their stage in training
- An appropriate knowledge base, and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems
- Evidence of skills in the management of acute medical emergencies (eg ALERT, IMPACT certification, ALS instructor)
- Evidence of involvement in a formal research project
- Evidence of relevant academic achievements, including publications / presentations
- Leadership skills gained within the NHS or elsewhere
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
