Job overview

Are you a GP medical leader passionate about improving access, experience and outcomes for patients across Planned Care services?

If so, we are seeking a medical Divisional Director, with significant leadership experience, to shape and develop our broad and diverse, largely outpatient-based offer to the 1.3 million people that we serve in Sussex.

This is an exciting opportunity to further transform our pathways of care for patients working closely with our clinical and operational leaders to address unwarranted clinical variation, use a data driven approach to identifying and tackling health inequity, develop virtual consultations and enhance personalised care.

You will provide strategic direction and leadership within our new planned care triumvirate to our child development centres, dental services, talking therapies, clinical support services and rehabilitation medical services.

Main duties of the job

The role assumes responsibility, over 4 sessions, for:

Leading, co-ordinating and ensuring excellent clinical care and a patient-centred approach is delivered equitably for all service users, families and carers of our Planned Care services.

Ensuring the voice of the patient is heard and this can be demonstrated in improvement.

·       Ensure patients are supported throughout their journey utilising waiting well methodologies, alongside timely access to assessment and treatment, and where required follow up.

·        Developing a supportive and compassionate culture of learning and quality improvement within the Division.

 Ensuring patient outcomes and productivity are maximised through the development and implementation of evidence-based care pathways and the reduction in unwarranted clinical variation.

Ensure safe medical staffing is delivered and lead the recruitment and retention within clinical services within portfolio.

Create, with the Divisional AHP Director, a strong, open, learning safety culture within the services.

Ensure continuous improvement, professional and leadership development and research are a core component to the clinical services within remit.

Working for our organisation

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?
•    Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
•    Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
•    Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
•    Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
•    Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
•    Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
•    Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
•    Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.