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Deputy Chief Medical Officer

Job details
Posting date: 17 May 2024
Salary: £169,000.00 per year
Additional salary information: £169000.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 02 June 2024
Location: London, NW1 5JD
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Contract
Job reference: D9807-NWL-639

Summary

The Deputy Chief Medical Officer will have an influential role within the portfolio of the ICB Chief Medical Officer. The post holder(s) will work as part of a senior leadership team, to provide senior strategic, visible, clinical and professional leadership across the system. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, they will be responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, other partners and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequality. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer is responsible for helping to deliver the Chief Medical Officer Directorates extensive portfolio. This will include guiding the Chief Medical Officer Directorate in strategic, delivery and assurance decision making, Board and committee level deputisation and chairing relevant meetings. Responsibilities include: Providing visible professional medical leadership across the ICB and ICS partnership organisations. Effective management of a cohort of ICB clinical leaders. Think and act strategically about service development needs. Setting clinical strategy that delivers long-term transformation for improved population health outcomes, access and patient experience through system collaboration and the integration of services. Driving high quality, sustainable outcomes through the systematic design, allocation and use of resources. Driving the reduction health inequalities and the variation of health outcomes experienced by residents across NWL by triangulating business intelligence, community insights and research to inform strategies for socially effective interventions. Support and coordinate the clinical pathway work between central and borough clinical leads. Build trusted relationships with partners and communities. Being an important conduit of communication between the Chief Medical Officer Directorate and the wider ICB and ICS partnership organisations. Engaging and developing the clinical leadership through a community of practice and create an environment for innovation and creativity to drive continuous improvement and deliver a high performing, agile and collaborative culture. Developing strategic clinical leadership workforce planning through talent management, learning organisations, group work, workforce design, succession planning, diversity and inclusion. Providing support to the Director of Nursing in matters relating to improving quality of care and patient safety. Functional Responsibilities: Analytical Awareness of risks to the programme/portfolio and ensure that escalation processes are followed. Provide coordination of and lead relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested. Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information. Communications and Engagement Support co-production as a way of working ensuring the key aspects of the workstream are developed with service users and experts by experience. Maintain clear and effective lines of communication at all levels with stakeholders. Be able to work effectively with service users, GP Practices, NHS providers as well as non-NHS providers. Interface with clinical leads across the sector. Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to the programme team, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff. Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters. Work with key stakeholders to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions. Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team. Support the relevant NWL ICB programmes in the preparation of correspondence and papers. General Financial and Physical Resources Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines. Continually strive for delivering project/function outcomes, value for money and greater efficiency Contribute to the financial delivery of the project ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time. Information Management Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information, to enhance decision making processes. Lead on development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of new information systems/databases as required. Research and Development Actively lead and contributes to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of variation. Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment. Ensuring there are processes in place for spreading and sharing learning and outcomes. Work with local academic organisations, drawing on their expertise and resource to support service development and evaluation.