Primary Care Medical Director - HCP

Job description

Job responsibilities

ROLE PURPOSE

The quality of care that residents and patients receive depends first and foremost on the skill, compassion and dedication of our staff across Health and Social Care. The more engaged staff are, the better the outcomes for residents and our organisations generally. The DGS HCP Primary Care Medical Director role will be pivotal in not only representing the wider general practice voice, but also galvanising clinical opinion across all HCP providers.

As a member of the DGS HCP, the key responsibilities of the Primary Care Medical Director role will be to:

Provide strong, visible clinical leadership

Champion and role model effective clinical leadership

Demonstrate the values and behaviours of the HCP (when developed).

Represent the voice of general practice, not just your own personal view.

Act as the GP representative at HCP and relevant ICB meetings.

Provide strong visible clinical leadership which fosters a culture of collaboration, regardless of organisational boundaries.

Pro-actively and positively work with PCN Directors and wider general practice colleagues to gain their views on important topics and feed the wider views into relevant meetings. Be the voice of the wider GP community.

To provide strong and empathetic clinical system leadership, breaking down barriers, putting the patient/resident at the heart of improvement work.

Champion quality improvement methodologies and standards of clinical practice that ensure patients always receive the best possible high quality, safe service.

Listen to and reflect the diversity of the local population.

Provide overall clinical leadership of the clinical leads/Health Pathway editors, building a collegiate approach to improvements across primary, community and secondary care.

Provide leadership/coaching to PCNs to deliver the Population Health Management agenda and roadmap.

Build strong, positive clinical working relationships and engagement

Develop and maintain professional clinical networks within the DGS HCP

Develop and maintain relationships and close working with the ICB CMO and Deputy CMO for primary care, as well as other partners across the ICB where this would be beneficial to share ideas and learning.

Develop effective communication channels between relevant clinical parties across the HCP to ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities and expectations regarding delivery of our priorities.

Working with all relevant clinical partners across the HCP to support delivery of effective, safe and high-quality care to residents and patients.

Engender a culture of openness and transparency, considering the views of clinical colleagues, ensuring these are appropriately incorporated into service and pathway design.

Create an environment where clinical innovation is encouraged and implemented in the interest of patients, our workforce and local people.

To increase awareness of the HCP priorities and work with clinical teams across the system.

Support delivery of the DGS HCP Priorities (and Integrated Care Board priorities where required), through the provision of clinical advice, expertise and knowledge

Contribute to the development and implementation of the DGS HCP long term vision, strategic direction and governance arrangements and support the HCP to have robust clinical input into delivery of its targets, goals and objectives from a clinical perspective

Ensure that the strategic direction and plans are aligned to that of the ICB

With other leaders in the HCP to ensure corporate accountability for the performance of the HCP, ensuring its functions are effectively and efficiently discharged

Provide oversight, clinical input and support delivery of our DGS HCP (and ICB) priorities and projects. This includes programmes of work, such as:

o Elective Care

o Urgent & Emergency Care

o Frail & Vulnerable Care

o Childrens Care

o Mental Health

Provide mentorship and support to programme clinical leads

In conjunction with the ICB CMO and Deputy CMO for Primary Care help develop and lead the implement a primary care strategy for the HCP

Champion the Inequalities, Prevention and Population Health (IPPH) agenda within primary care and the HCP, to support the system to reduce health inequalities and provide effective care that meets the needs of the population and improve health outcomes.

Input into all relevant K&M IPPH sub-committee meeting and other meetings to represent the DGS HCP, as required.

Support PCNs in the delivery of the Population Health Management methodology.

To support the continuous evolution and systematic approach to quality initiatives.

Supporting the HCP to deliver efficiency improvements to support financial recovery programmes from a clinical perspective

Contacts and relationships

Positively engage with external agencies and act as advocate for DGS HCP including its partner organisations, in particular across our general practice, the community and mental health providers and acute trust.

Actively look for potential opportunities with key contacts to improve overall service delivery, patient outcomes and experience.

Connect and build trust with colleagues and patients across traditional boundaries - developing strong networks and relationships that work in service of patients over organisations, places or professional groups.

Clinical/service decision-making

Make sound operational and clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision of services across the HCP

Listen with compassion to the needs, hopes and challenges of those you work with and serve, using this understanding to actively involve others in the decisions that affect their lives.

Support the HCP based team, verify and assess all appropriate and available information to gain an accurate understanding of the situation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Practitioner

Experience

Essential

• Be competent, confident and willing to give an unbiased strategic clinical or professional view on all aspects of HCP business;
• Be highly regarded as a clinical or care professional leader, beyond the boundaries of a profession demonstrably able to think beyond their own professional and organisational viewpoint;
• Have the skills and experience to plan and chair meetings with multiprofessional and/or multiple stakeholder involvement;
• Be able to take a balanced view of the clinical and management agenda and draw on their specialist skills to add value.
• Knowledge and understanding of health, care and local government landscape, and integrated care agenda
• Knowledge and understanding of population health inequalities and how this impacts peoples outcomes and experience of health and care provision
• Appreciation of the challenges facing the DGS HCP, and the interplay between ICS, Place and Neighbourhood. Understanding of system and its population
• Recent experience of working within the health and care system.
• Making sound operational or clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision
• Proven ability to engage people by the way they communicate and interact, including members of the public, clinical and professional leaders across organisations
• Working across boundaries and collaborative working, including with communities
• Ability to think strategically and development and implementation of strategic plans
• Evidence of collaborative working, relationship building, partnership working and strategic thinking.
• Experience of working in DGS
• Ability to enthuse and motivate others
• Commitment to principles of promoting equality and respecting diversity
• Commitment to improving the health, care and wellbeing of DGSs population
• Determination and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity in an effective way
• Encourage and test new ways of working together, collaborating and learning from each other to achieve our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our population
• Strong interpersonal, communication and empathic skills and ability to maintain a positive and constructive profile across system partners
• Ability to influence and persuade, articulate a balanced view and encourage constructive debate with the confidence to question and challenge effectively
• Politically and publicly astute
• Ability to demonstrate effective system leadership behaviour

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

Address

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

Darenth Wood Rd

Dartford

Kent

DA2 8DA

Employer's website

https://www.kentandmedway.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)