Senior Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director of Clinical Commissioning Maidstone

Job summary

We are seeking an exceptional senior clinical leader to join our executive team as Senior Deputy Chief Medical and Outcomes Officer and Director of Clinical Commissioning. This is a high-profile strategic role providing clinical leadership across commissioning, outcomes improvement, quality, service transformation and acute care delivery.

Acting as the principal deputy to the Chief Medical and Outcomes Officer, you will play a leading role in shaping strategic commissioning decisions, driving clinically led transformation and ensuring the highest standards of quality, patient outcomes and value for money. Working across organisational and system boundaries, you will influence senior clinicians, executives and partners to deliver innovative, evidence-based approaches that improve population health outcomes, reduce inequalities and support sustainable healthcare services.

This role offers an opportunity to contribute at executive level, helping to shape the future direction of services and ensuring clinical leadership remains at the heart of decision-making.

Main duties of the job

You will provide executive leadership for clinical commissioning, strategic planning and service transformation programmes, ensuring commissioning decisions are informed by robust clinical evidence, population health intelligence and quality improvement methodologies. They will lead major programmes across acute care, urgent and emergency care, elective recovery, diagnostics and pathway redesign, driving improvements in quality, access, productivity and patient outcomes.

Working closely with executive colleagues and system partners, the successful candidate will support the development of long-term clinical strategy, commissioning intentions and sustainable models of care. They will provide leadership to senior clinical teams, support the development of future clinical leaders and foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and collaboration.

The role includes building strong relationships across providers and partner organisations, providing assurance on performance and outcomes, and influencing strategic decisions that support both improved patient care and the effective use of public resources.

About us

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.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Medical Practitioner holding full registration and licence to practise with the General Medical Council.

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in healthcare leadership, public health, commissioning or management

Experience

Essential

• Experience of operating as a Deputy Chief Medical Officer within an NHS commissioning organisation

Desirable

• Experience of working at regional or national NHS level.

Knowledge

Essential

• In-depth understanding of the NHS and Integrated Care Systems.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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.