Job overview

Limited to Plymouth, East Cornwall and West Devon PCN clinical directors

The Associate Medical Director (AMD) for Primary Care Liaison will provide Strategic and Clinical Leadership to strengthen collaboration and partnership working between University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) and local primary care providers, including GP practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), and the wider Devon Integrated Care System (ICS).

The role will focus on improving collaboration across the primary, community and secondary interface, supporting our collective priorities for pathway redesign/improvement, patient flow, reducing system inefficiencies, and supporting integrated care pathways to deliver high-quality, sustainable healthcare for the population served by UHP. 

Main duties of the job

Strategic Leadership

•           Act as the senior clinical link between UHP and primary care, ensuring alignment with Devon ICS priorities and UHP’s strategic objectives.

•           Contribute to the development of integrated care models that support elective recovery, urgent care flow, and population health management.

•           Contribute to the shared work programme at GP collaborative board

•           Identify key friction points in the interface (referrals, discharge, follow-up, communication, diagnostics access, shared care) and lead targeted improvement programmes.

Clinical Engagement & Liaison

•           Build strong, collaborative relationships with GPs, PCN Clinical Directors, and Local Medical Committees (LMC). Divisional Directors and Hospital Senior Medical Staff.

•           Represent UHP at ICS forums and primary care engagement meetings, ensuring secondary care perspectives are understood and integrated. To act as an internal voice to raise awareness aid understanding of primary care in the acute setting

Working for our organisation

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment manager for this post who will put you in touch with the recruitment team. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.