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Location
Lewes, East Sussex | United Kingdom
Job description
This is a job share and we are seeking someone for 0.4 WTE. Reporting to the ICB Chief Medical Officer the ICB Director of Primary Care and Deputy Chief Medical Officer is responsible for taking a strategic and professional lead for the quality of clinical services within the system. You will provide strong and visible clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led services. You will provide strategic advice on population health and clinical outcome improvement to the CMO. As a catalyst of change in the Integrated Care System and given our legacy, we (NHS Sussex) have taken time to rethink how we are organised and the skills required to deliver our statutory requirements, integrate services and improve collaboration. This role is a key leadership role within the new operating model for the organisation. As a leader your main focus will be to deliver on the responsibilities outlined in this job description and lead and develop your team. In this role you are responsible for commissioning of services which best meet the needs of the population, service transformation and improvement and the delivery of any relevant national programmes of work. The CMO Directorates primary focus is to ensure the NHS Sussex ICB delivers its statutory duties and embed ways of working aligned to the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of collaboration, integration and improving the health outcomes for our population. This includes ensuring that there is effective commissioning of services with a robust and effective interface between primary care and all providers of care including social care, ensuring safe and effective care pathways in line with the known evidence base and best practice. The CMO Directorate provides strong clinical leadership to the ICB (and across the Sussex Health and Care Partnership collaborative networks) and significantly contributes to the delivery of all statutory and corporate responsibilities of the organisation. The post holder will play an active role in the wider leadership team of NHS Sussex and will be expected to positively contribute to discussions, debate, and activity in priority areas of focus, including those which fall outside of their area of functional responsibility, as and when required. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate positive leadership in all aspects of their role, take responsibility and make decisions (in line with accountabilities and delegated responsibilities), and when escalating issues, set out clear recommendations. The post holder will provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings. In partnership with others, this post holder will also lead the system delivery plans for primary care and community across the Sussex Health and Care Partnership (Integrated Care System) as set out in Improving Lives Together. This post holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with our external regulators, and in particular with our NHS England Regional and National leads and act as a conduit to ensuring information flows remain appropriate.
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Salary
£132.87k per annum
