Chief Medical Officer | NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board

We are seeking an exceptional Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to join our Integrated Care Board at a critical point in the development of our clustered systems across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke‑on‑Trent. This is a statutory board‑level role providing the most senior system‑wide clinical and professional leadership across medical, dental, pharmacy and ophthalmology professions and ensuring clinical and professional leadership is at the heart of our strategic commissioning decisions.

As a full voting member of the Board and Executive Team, the CMO will play a pivotal role in shaping population health strategy, improving population health outcomes, addressing health inequalities and ensuring high‑quality, safe, compassionate, inclusive and sustainable care.

Working closely with executive colleagues and system partners, you will:

• Provide strategic clinical advice and leadership to the Board
• Lead medicines optimisation, primary care commissioning and transformation
• Act as Caldicott Guardian and champion ethical data use
• Drive improvement, innovation and research at system scale
• Build strong partnerships across providers, local authorities and communities

We are looking for a credible, values‑led medical leader with:

• Current GMC registration and substantial board‑level or system leadership experience
• A strong track record of leading complex transformation and improvement
• The ability to influence in politically and professionally complex environments
• A clear commitment to reducing health inequalities, equality, diversity and inclusion

Our goal as a clustered ICB is to lead and support delivery of the four Integrated Care System (ICS) aims across the geographies of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent:

• Improving outcomes in population health and care
• Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
• Enhancing productivity and value for money
• Helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development

Role Summary— The Chief Medical Officer is the most senior medical leader across the local health and care systems, providing strategic clinical advice and leadership to the Board and across the systems in line with national direction, system challenges and local population health needs.

Acts as lead medical, dental, pharmacy and ophthalmology professional voice within the clustered ICBs and, in partnership with the Chief Nursing Officer, of relevant professional leadership across both systems.

Leads medicines optimisation across the ICBs, integrating patient‑focused, evidence‑based practices across health and social care to improve outcomes from medicines.

Provides clinical & professional strategic leadership across the STW & SSOT geographies for Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, and Ophthalmology Professionals.

Works closely with the Chief Nursing Officer to form a strong and unified clinical team and to build impactful clinical leadership across the cluster.

Provides strategic direction and ensures high standards of care, safety, and quality across the health and care systems for Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, and Ophthalmology professionals.

Provides visible professional leadership for medical, dental, pharmacy and ophthalmology professionals and supports multi‑professional leadership across the system.

Accountable for statutory and non‑statutory functions including Primary Care and medicines optimisation.

Leads the development and delivery of integrated clinical strategies aligned with ICB objectives, embedding multi‑professional leadership throughout.

As Caldicott Guardian ensures ethical data use.

Drives strategic transformation through strong clinical engagement, quality improvement, and performance assurance across commissioned services.

As the lead Director for research and innovation across the ICBs the post holder will support the development and delivery of strategy and share learning to inform approaches to population health management and health improvement.