Primary Care Sheffield

Executive Medical Director

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Job summary

The role will have executive board-level responsibility for leadership and performance of our medical professionals and be overall lead for the delivery and strategic development of safe, high quality clinical services. An essential feature of the role will be to oversee the process of appraisal and revalidation for those doctors with a prescribed connection to PCS ensuring that all medical staff maintain their registered professional requirements and are revalidated/appraised to high standards.

With a demonstrable track record as a talented clinician and medical leader showcasing your ability to inspire and motivate multidisciplinary teams to deliver excellence, you will already be operating at an enhanced level. As the Executive Medical Director, you will work closely with the executive and senior leadership teams across the organisation as well as with colleagues within partner organisations of Sheffield's Accountable Care Partnership and of South Yorkshires integrated care system.

Please note that this advert may close early if a high number of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking to appoint someone who will share our values and ambitions and who will bring medical leadership experience, alongside expertise around system working, collaboration and transformation. We are looking for an exceptional person who will build, in partnership with the Board, staff and external stakeholders, an organisation which delivers on its ambition to make Primary Care in Sheffield an exemplar in quality and innovation.

A key element of the role will be to build strong links and effective working relationships with Sheffields 15 Primary Care Networks and as such will require excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to rapidly establish your credibility with a diverse stakeholder group.

A team player, comfortable with strategic issues and improving operational performance, you will be excited by the opportunity to help shape the organisations future whilst also ensuring sustained progress in the drive to continuously improve the experience of patients and their families.

About us

Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a GP-led organisation. Our shareholders are 75 GP practices in Sheffield covering around 600,000 patients. We have a social purpose; improving the quality of care through the reinvestment of surplus into patient services. We exist to provide services which make the health and care system work better for everyone in particular providing an infrastructure through which GP practices and primary care networks can flourish.

Details

Date posted

03 September 2021

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£125,000 to £130,000 a year This is the FTE Salary

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A3466-21-9285

Job locations

722 Prince of Wales Road

Sheffield

South Yorkshire

S9 4EU


Job description

Job responsibilities

OVERVIEW

Primary Care Sheffield has an executive team comprising a Chief Executive Officer, a Director of Strategy and Operations & Deputy Chief Executive, a Director of Finance and a Commercial Director. PCS as Sheffields provider of Primary Care at scale is a key partner within Sheffields Accountable Care Partnership.

Working across multiple stakeholders at system level, PCS is engaged with a wide range of workstreams to improve access to care, develop system resilience and to integrate services in the city. As a provider PCS delivers a range of face to face clinical services as well as non-patient facing support to primary care.

The Medical Director will be responsible for the clinical safety, quality and responsiveness of all PCS services, providing senior clinical leadership throughout the organisation and to its medical & wider clinical workforce.

JOB PURPOSE

  • Provide strategic medical and corporate leadership and advice to the PCS Board and Executive team.
  • Ensure the highest level of clinical care is maintained and that robust clinical governance systems are in place whilst ensuring that the clinical workforce is deployed to best effect.
  • Oversee delivery of continuous quality improvement in providing safe and effective patient centred services across the Board.
  • Be the Responsible Officer to those medical staff employed by PCS as their designated body.
  • Be the Caldicott Guardian for PCS and ensure effective systems are in place to effectively discharge our responsibilities around information governance and data protection.
  • Be responsible for the development, review and refinement of clinical protocols underpinning services to establish and maintain appropriate quality assurance mechanisms and effective processes of Clinical Governance working closely with the PCS Quality Lead, Clinical Director and service Clinical Leads and the Chair of the Clinical Governance Committee.
  • Provide clinical support for the development and implementation of PCS strategy and the organisations annual business plan ensuring it will deliver high quality clinical care and build capacity within Primary Care in order to promote health, prevent illness and treat people as close to their homes and communities as possible.
  • The Medical Director will be expected to play a full part in developing the wider corporate agenda as such they will provide a clinical perspective to the overall development of the companys strategic direction.
  • Work to develop partnerships with key stakeholders in order to broaden the range and breadth of PCSs influence and of its services ensuring they are integrated with the wider system.

MAIN DUTIES

Board Role

  • To support the CEO and Chair in the development of the strategic commercial direction of PCS by offering a clinical perspective and championing the ethos of clinically driven change.
  • As an executive member of the PCS Board, fully contribute to the corporate decision-making, strategic development and governance activities of the Board so that professional expertise and understanding of clinical services and associated issues are directly available to the Board.
  • To participate as a full member of PCS Executive Team and Board, offering solutions, making decisions on behalf of the wider organisation, and taking accountability of those decisions and their implementation.
  • To work with GP Non-Executive Directors and members of the PCN Subcommittee (Sheffield PCN CDs) to bring together clinical leadership in system transformation.
  • Ensure the organisation develops systems and processes which support the maintenance of outstanding levels of clinical performance including audit, professional practice and effective governance, working closely with the Chair and members of the Clinical Governance Committee as well as Board.
  • Advise the Board, Executive Team and staff on all clinical matters.
  • Contribute to the assessment and judgment of priorities and risk management in future opportunities particularly (though not solely) relating to clinical risk.
  • Contribute to the delivery of PCSs and wider systems strategic vision, the NHS long term plan, Shaping Sheffield, ICS primary care strategy and to addressing inequalities.

Management Role

The Medical Director will:

  • Be accountable for Clinical Safety and quality across all PCS services.
  • Be the Caldicott Guardian for PCS and ensure effective systems are in place for robust information governance and data protection.
  • Work with Executive Director colleagues and workstream/service Clinical Leads to ensure services are well led, safe and of high quality.
  • Work with colleagues to deliver improvements in clinical quality, safety and efficiency, and to configure changes in services to meet the needs of patients, primary care, PCS and commissioners.
  • Ensure Standard Operating Procedures, policies and protocols are up to date, compliant with national guidance or standards and are clinically relevant to the services being provided. Most importantly ensuring mechanisms are in place for their regular review and refinement.
  • Provide senior clinical leadership to all clinical staff including supporting a learning culture that promotes openness, safety as well as continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Oversee the ongoing professional development of staff including processes for annual internal appraisal and the induction of new clinical ensuring new employees are appropriately skilled and qualified for their clinical role.
  • Ensure that all clinical staff receive effective communication regarding SOPs, policies and procedures and guideline changes as well as timely cascade of central alerts.
  • Take overall clinical leadership for effective clinical risk management processes and reporting, working closely with Executive Leads, Service Managers and Clinical Directors and Clinical Leads across all service areas to further develop and implement processes to eliminate or reduce potential risks and safeguard the security of clinical services.
  • Working with the senior management team, ensure the development of sound clinical performance management arrangements and the development of clinical performance measurement systems, significant event reporting and analysis and feedback to relevant teams.
  • Provide dynamic clinical leadership to ensure that an ongoing programme of audit and evaluation activity takes place to underpin evidence-based clinical service development and the ongoing delivery of high standards of clinical excellence and outcomes.
  • Ensure that PCS has an appropriate medicines management strategy that maximises cost-effective, safe prescribing.
  • Provide leadership to all clinical staff with the scope of PCSs services whether directly employed or subcontracted and to be the Responsible Officer for those doctors with a prescribed connection to PCS.
  • Ensure that two-way communication between PCS executive team and wider clinical staff teams is effective and timely.
  • Develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders to promote joint partnership working, in particular Clinical Directors within Primary Care Networks, GP leads with the ICS and ACP, LMC colleagues and Medical Directors in partner organisations.
  • Demonstrate and exemplify positive behaviours and attitudes that will support co-operative and partnership working to achieve progress in the redesign and provision of relevant clinical services across Sheffield.
  • To provide a strong GP clinical voice for the role and importance of primary care in the development of integrated care in Sheffield.
  • Be aware of national initiatives impacting on primary care, their implications for PCS and its shareholders and how they may shape PCS strategy.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

  • PCS executive team
  • PCS Clinical Leads
  • PCS Board members
  • PCS Clinical Governance Committee Chair and members
  • PCS wider clinical staff
  • GP practices and PCNs
  • Sheffield LMC
  • Medical Directors within Foundation Trusts (STHFT, SHSC, SCH)
  • Commissioners (CCG, SCC, NHS England)
  • Director of Public Health
  • Other key providers across the South Yorkshire region including independent sector and voluntary groups

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

The post will be subject to agreed objectives set with the PCS board and regular review of performance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

OVERVIEW

Primary Care Sheffield has an executive team comprising a Chief Executive Officer, a Director of Strategy and Operations & Deputy Chief Executive, a Director of Finance and a Commercial Director. PCS as Sheffields provider of Primary Care at scale is a key partner within Sheffields Accountable Care Partnership.

Working across multiple stakeholders at system level, PCS is engaged with a wide range of workstreams to improve access to care, develop system resilience and to integrate services in the city. As a provider PCS delivers a range of face to face clinical services as well as non-patient facing support to primary care.

The Medical Director will be responsible for the clinical safety, quality and responsiveness of all PCS services, providing senior clinical leadership throughout the organisation and to its medical & wider clinical workforce.

JOB PURPOSE

  • Provide strategic medical and corporate leadership and advice to the PCS Board and Executive team.
  • Ensure the highest level of clinical care is maintained and that robust clinical governance systems are in place whilst ensuring that the clinical workforce is deployed to best effect.
  • Oversee delivery of continuous quality improvement in providing safe and effective patient centred services across the Board.
  • Be the Responsible Officer to those medical staff employed by PCS as their designated body.
  • Be the Caldicott Guardian for PCS and ensure effective systems are in place to effectively discharge our responsibilities around information governance and data protection.
  • Be responsible for the development, review and refinement of clinical protocols underpinning services to establish and maintain appropriate quality assurance mechanisms and effective processes of Clinical Governance working closely with the PCS Quality Lead, Clinical Director and service Clinical Leads and the Chair of the Clinical Governance Committee.
  • Provide clinical support for the development and implementation of PCS strategy and the organisations annual business plan ensuring it will deliver high quality clinical care and build capacity within Primary Care in order to promote health, prevent illness and treat people as close to their homes and communities as possible.
  • The Medical Director will be expected to play a full part in developing the wider corporate agenda as such they will provide a clinical perspective to the overall development of the companys strategic direction.
  • Work to develop partnerships with key stakeholders in order to broaden the range and breadth of PCSs influence and of its services ensuring they are integrated with the wider system.

MAIN DUTIES

Board Role

  • To support the CEO and Chair in the development of the strategic commercial direction of PCS by offering a clinical perspective and championing the ethos of clinically driven change.
  • As an executive member of the PCS Board, fully contribute to the corporate decision-making, strategic development and governance activities of the Board so that professional expertise and understanding of clinical services and associated issues are directly available to the Board.
  • To participate as a full member of PCS Executive Team and Board, offering solutions, making decisions on behalf of the wider organisation, and taking accountability of those decisions and their implementation.
  • To work with GP Non-Executive Directors and members of the PCN Subcommittee (Sheffield PCN CDs) to bring together clinical leadership in system transformation.
  • Ensure the organisation develops systems and processes which support the maintenance of outstanding levels of clinical performance including audit, professional practice and effective governance, working closely with the Chair and members of the Clinical Governance Committee as well as Board.
  • Advise the Board, Executive Team and staff on all clinical matters.
  • Contribute to the assessment and judgment of priorities and risk management in future opportunities particularly (though not solely) relating to clinical risk.
  • Contribute to the delivery of PCSs and wider systems strategic vision, the NHS long term plan, Shaping Sheffield, ICS primary care strategy and to addressing inequalities.

Management Role

The Medical Director will:

  • Be accountable for Clinical Safety and quality across all PCS services.
  • Be the Caldicott Guardian for PCS and ensure effective systems are in place for robust information governance and data protection.
  • Work with Executive Director colleagues and workstream/service Clinical Leads to ensure services are well led, safe and of high quality.
  • Work with colleagues to deliver improvements in clinical quality, safety and efficiency, and to configure changes in services to meet the needs of patients, primary care, PCS and commissioners.
  • Ensure Standard Operating Procedures, policies and protocols are up to date, compliant with national guidance or standards and are clinically relevant to the services being provided. Most importantly ensuring mechanisms are in place for their regular review and refinement.
  • Provide senior clinical leadership to all clinical staff including supporting a learning culture that promotes openness, safety as well as continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Oversee the ongoing professional development of staff including processes for annual internal appraisal and the induction of new clinical ensuring new employees are appropriately skilled and qualified for their clinical role.
  • Ensure that all clinical staff receive effective communication regarding SOPs, policies and procedures and guideline changes as well as timely cascade of central alerts.
  • Take overall clinical leadership for effective clinical risk management processes and reporting, working closely with Executive Leads, Service Managers and Clinical Directors and Clinical Leads across all service areas to further develop and implement processes to eliminate or reduce potential risks and safeguard the security of clinical services.
  • Working with the senior management team, ensure the development of sound clinical performance management arrangements and the development of clinical performance measurement systems, significant event reporting and analysis and feedback to relevant teams.
  • Provide dynamic clinical leadership to ensure that an ongoing programme of audit and evaluation activity takes place to underpin evidence-based clinical service development and the ongoing delivery of high standards of clinical excellence and outcomes.
  • Ensure that PCS has an appropriate medicines management strategy that maximises cost-effective, safe prescribing.
  • Provide leadership to all clinical staff with the scope of PCSs services whether directly employed or subcontracted and to be the Responsible Officer for those doctors with a prescribed connection to PCS.
  • Ensure that two-way communication between PCS executive team and wider clinical staff teams is effective and timely.
  • Develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders to promote joint partnership working, in particular Clinical Directors within Primary Care Networks, GP leads with the ICS and ACP, LMC colleagues and Medical Directors in partner organisations.
  • Demonstrate and exemplify positive behaviours and attitudes that will support co-operative and partnership working to achieve progress in the redesign and provision of relevant clinical services across Sheffield.
  • To provide a strong GP clinical voice for the role and importance of primary care in the development of integrated care in Sheffield.
  • Be aware of national initiatives impacting on primary care, their implications for PCS and its shareholders and how they may shape PCS strategy.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

  • PCS executive team
  • PCS Clinical Leads
  • PCS Board members
  • PCS Clinical Governance Committee Chair and members
  • PCS wider clinical staff
  • GP practices and PCNs
  • Sheffield LMC
  • Medical Directors within Foundation Trusts (STHFT, SHSC, SCH)
  • Commissioners (CCG, SCC, NHS England)
  • Director of Public Health
  • Other key providers across the South Yorkshire region including independent sector and voluntary groups

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

The post will be subject to agreed objectives set with the PCS board and regular review of performance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • - Medical Degree and Royal College Membership
  • - Full GMC registration and licence to practise.

Desirable

  • - Recognised post graduate management qualification.

Experience

Essential

  • - Experienced practicing clinician
  • - Senior professional with extensive experience of high level leadership and management
  • - Experience of strategic decision making.
  • - Ability to analyse highly complex organisational problems and develop and implement workable solutions
  • - Experience of developing and implementing clinically related strategies to improve safety, quality and efficiency of systems
  • - Sound knowledge and experience of clinical / information governance.
  • - Influencing strategy and change within primary care and other providers.
  • - Delivering collaborative business ventures across primary and secondary care.
  • - Up to date knowledge of current health agenda impacting on Primary Care and how these can be integrated in PCS.
  • - Medical workforce leadership
  • - Thorough understanding of effective clinical governance
  • - Experience of leading change in challenging environments

Desirable

  • - Additional experience in a specialised area, or higher training in a clinical subject.
  • - Previous budget management experience.
  • - Previous project experience.
  • - Experience of Policy development and implementation.
  • - Experience of monitoring and evaluation of clinical services
  • - Experience of working at Director level in a provider organisation
  • - Worked within or integrated with primary care
  • - Be aware of national initiatives impacting on primary care and how these can be integrated in the PCS system
  • - Responsible Officer trained and experience
  • - Caldicott Guardian

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

  • - Highly motivated self starter
  • - Leadership skills
  • - Financial acumen
  • - Ability to build high performing cohesive teams
  • - Demonstrates track record of developing successful partnership with other agencies
  • - An inclusive leadership style and a commitment to integrated care
  • - A strong commitment to developing the quality of primary care.
  • - Excellent communication skills
  • - Strategic thinker and commitment to the development of integrated care
  • - Clear understanding of organisational and system politics and a drive to work with and around them.
  • - Able to manage conflict and harness different opinions from a variety of external services.
  • - Drive, energy, enthusiasm and resourcefulness.

Disposition/Attitude

Essential

  • - Previous involvement in projects / initiatives to introduce new ways of working to improve services delivery.
  • - Evidence of involvement in changing ways of working to benefit patient care.
  • - Evidence of development of internal and cross organisational relationships and culture.
  • - Evidence of development of effective relationships and communication with clinical / non clinical staff.

Desirable

  • - Evidence of managing major change projects and successful conclusion.
  • - Involvement in projects to reconfigure healthcare services.

Other Factors

Essential

  • - Evidence of credibility within their peer group and ability to influence others across organisations.

Desirable

  • - Possession of full driving license or be mobile.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • - Medical Degree and Royal College Membership
  • - Full GMC registration and licence to practise.

Desirable

  • - Recognised post graduate management qualification.

Experience

Essential

  • - Experienced practicing clinician
  • - Senior professional with extensive experience of high level leadership and management
  • - Experience of strategic decision making.
  • - Ability to analyse highly complex organisational problems and develop and implement workable solutions
  • - Experience of developing and implementing clinically related strategies to improve safety, quality and efficiency of systems
  • - Sound knowledge and experience of clinical / information governance.
  • - Influencing strategy and change within primary care and other providers.
  • - Delivering collaborative business ventures across primary and secondary care.
  • - Up to date knowledge of current health agenda impacting on Primary Care and how these can be integrated in PCS.
  • - Medical workforce leadership
  • - Thorough understanding of effective clinical governance
  • - Experience of leading change in challenging environments

Desirable

  • - Additional experience in a specialised area, or higher training in a clinical subject.
  • - Previous budget management experience.
  • - Previous project experience.
  • - Experience of Policy development and implementation.
  • - Experience of monitoring and evaluation of clinical services
  • - Experience of working at Director level in a provider organisation
  • - Worked within or integrated with primary care
  • - Be aware of national initiatives impacting on primary care and how these can be integrated in the PCS system
  • - Responsible Officer trained and experience
  • - Caldicott Guardian

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

  • - Highly motivated self starter
  • - Leadership skills
  • - Financial acumen
  • - Ability to build high performing cohesive teams
  • - Demonstrates track record of developing successful partnership with other agencies
  • - An inclusive leadership style and a commitment to integrated care
  • - A strong commitment to developing the quality of primary care.
  • - Excellent communication skills
  • - Strategic thinker and commitment to the development of integrated care
  • - Clear understanding of organisational and system politics and a drive to work with and around them.
  • - Able to manage conflict and harness different opinions from a variety of external services.
  • - Drive, energy, enthusiasm and resourcefulness.

Disposition/Attitude

Essential

  • - Previous involvement in projects / initiatives to introduce new ways of working to improve services delivery.
  • - Evidence of involvement in changing ways of working to benefit patient care.
  • - Evidence of development of internal and cross organisational relationships and culture.
  • - Evidence of development of effective relationships and communication with clinical / non clinical staff.

Desirable

  • - Evidence of managing major change projects and successful conclusion.
  • - Involvement in projects to reconfigure healthcare services.

Other Factors

Essential

  • - Evidence of credibility within their peer group and ability to influence others across organisations.

Desirable

  • - Possession of full driving license or be mobile.

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.

UK Registration

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

Additional information

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.

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

Primary Care Sheffield

Address

722 Prince of Wales Road

Sheffield

South Yorkshire

S9 4EU


Employer's website

http://www.primarycaresheffield.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Primary Care Sheffield

Address

722 Prince of Wales Road

Sheffield

South Yorkshire

S9 4EU


Employer's website

http://www.primarycaresheffield.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Assistant

Jennifer Cook-Batty

jennifer.cook-batty@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

03 September 2021

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£125,000 to £130,000 a year This is the FTE Salary

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A3466-21-9285

Job locations

722 Prince of Wales Road

Sheffield

South Yorkshire

S9 4EU


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