Job summary
Could you be our new Medical Director? Are you an excellent
communicator with the ability to inspire and motivate others? Do you have a
good understanding of the broader health care environment and a passion for continuous
improvement?
We are looking for a visionary Medical Director to help
shape and lead the future of our organisation. You will have a strategic mind
set with the ability to articulate a clear vision for advancing patient care,
quality improvement and growing our organisation. You will be comfortable with providing
constructive challenge and making effective if sometimes difficult decisions.
Main duties of the job
You will be working three days per week in the leadership role as Medical Director with two days per week embedded in our James Street Practice in Workington so you
will have ample opportunity to work as part of a clinical team and apply your
excellent clinical skills.
As Medical
Director will have responsibility for leading the delivery of core General
Practice services, ensuring the organisation meets the requirement of patients,
commissioners, regulators and other stakeholders. The post holder will lead the clinical team and
has a key role in developing and implementing the clinical and business
strategy for NCPC.
The Medical Director
will be a highly visible, proactive and accessible clinical leader, acting as an
excellent role model, a clinical resource and will ensure the sustained
delivery of high standards of clinical care and service delivery, to
clinicians, patients and the public.
Working as part of
a collective leadership group of Directors, Associate Directors, and GP Leads
at PCN, locality and practice level to provide leadership and oversight of
services across the organisation as well as building external relationships and
contributing to system wide work across North Cumbria.
About us
North Cumbria Primary Care Ltd. (NCPC) is a clinically-led,
not for profit company, where all of our GPs are employees, meaning that all
financial risks, responsibilities and liabilities sit with our not for profit
limited company, rather than with individual partners. Our organisation is led
collaboratively, with an efficient head office support function.
We run 6 practices across 16 sites in North Cumbria - from
Carlisle across to Workington and Whitehaven, and down to Bootle. Delivering
services to a patient population of about 100,000 people, we are members of 3 PCNs,
employ 430 staff and work collaboratively across the practices, seeking to work
at scale where this is of benefit. We
have a strong focus on training for all clinical roles represented in our
clinical team, and a philosophy of growing our own. We are already developing strong links with the
Pears Cumbria School of Medicine, which has its first intake of medical students
in September 2025.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role requirements including the person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role requirements including the person specification.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Highly effective communication, influencing and presentation skills - able to engage and communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders and staff including service users carers
- Effective written / report writing skills
- Ability to critically appraise and interpret highly complex data and information to support the improvement of services and clinical practice
- Resilient, able to challenge as well as deal with challenge
- Effective leadership skills including engaging staff in change
- Politically astute
- Ability to influence others
-
- Establish visibility and credibility in equal measure across all localities
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Willingness to share knowledge and collaborate across NCPC
- Mature approach to conflict resolution
Qualifications
Essential
- GMC registered with licence to practice as a GP.
- On/eligible to be on the GP performers list
- MRCGP
- Evidence of continued professional development and revalidation
Desirable
- GP Trainer
- Other post graduate diplomas
- Formal leadership training/qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience as a GP some of which has been obtained in a leadership role.
-
- Understanding of the NHS and the current environment in which it operates.
- Experience of strategic planning, and managing change.
- Experience of delivering performance targets.
- Experience in improving systems and processes in a continuous improvement culture; assessing, monitoring & mitigating risk.
- Experience of successfully building effective relationships and networks across a range of services and professions.
- Understanding of the clinical governance and quality agenda for the NHS
- Experience of Clinical Leadership in Primary care.
- Experience of delivering significant change within a clinical environment.
- Experience of developing a patient safety culture
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Highly effective communication, influencing and presentation skills - able to engage and communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders and staff including service users carers
- Effective written / report writing skills
- Ability to critically appraise and interpret highly complex data and information to support the improvement of services and clinical practice
- Resilient, able to challenge as well as deal with challenge
- Effective leadership skills including engaging staff in change
- Politically astute
- Ability to influence others
-
- Establish visibility and credibility in equal measure across all localities
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Willingness to share knowledge and collaborate across NCPC
- Mature approach to conflict resolution
Qualifications
Essential
- GMC registered with licence to practice as a GP.
- On/eligible to be on the GP performers list
- MRCGP
- Evidence of continued professional development and revalidation
Desirable
- GP Trainer
- Other post graduate diplomas
- Formal leadership training/qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience as a GP some of which has been obtained in a leadership role.
-
- Understanding of the NHS and the current environment in which it operates.
- Experience of strategic planning, and managing change.
- Experience of delivering performance targets.
- Experience in improving systems and processes in a continuous improvement culture; assessing, monitoring & mitigating risk.
- Experience of successfully building effective relationships and networks across a range of services and professions.
- Understanding of the clinical governance and quality agenda for the NHS
- Experience of Clinical Leadership in Primary care.
- Experience of delivering significant change within a clinical environment.
- Experience of developing a patient safety culture
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.
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).
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.
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).
