Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical
- Grade
- Clinical Leads
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 16 hours per week
- Job ref
- 095-8266121-TS
- Employer
- NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gail House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £162,292 - £200,000 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Primary and Community Care)
Clinical Leads
Job overview
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed by the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards; and current at-risk employees within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts.
You will provide senior clinical leadership within the ICB as part of the Chief Medical & Outcomes Officer (CMOO) team.
You will be the CMOO lead for all aspects of commissioning of primary and community care, including the Neighbourhood Health programme.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical leadership on all aspects of primary care and neighbourhood working in conjunction with the Director of Primary and Community Care.
- Lead communications and delivery of the GP, Pharmacy, Optometry and Dentistry Development Plans as well as Neighbourhood development and delivery
- Provide key clinical leadership and oversight of clinical directors
- Clinical oversight and direction concerning new and existing local services
- Support the Primary Care Estates strategy from a clinical perspective
- Support the Chief Digital Officer and CCIO digital development in Primary Care and Neighbourhood.
- Provide clinical leadership for all primary care delegated services (GP and POD) including holding to account primary care colleagues where performance concerns have been identified.
Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.
Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That’s why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.
We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.
We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
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All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate skill, knowledge and experience of working in a system leadership role, at a senior management level equivalent to a director or Board member.
Desirable criteria
- Be practising as a GP in a practice in receipt of a GMS, PMS or APMS contract within the ICB area
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Evidence of drawing on a breadth of complex and, sometimes contradictory, data to inform ethical decisions, balancing competing priorities.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of contributing effectively to complex professional meetings at a senior level
Attributes
Essential criteria
- In depth knowledge of health, care, local government landscape and/ or the voluntary sector
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jodie Way
- Job title
- Executive Assistant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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