Associate Medical Director: Clinical Lead for Policies

Black Country Integrated Care Board is recruiting a sessional Associate Medical Director for Clinical Policies, a three-year post in the Medical Directorate across the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull ICB cluster. The work is strategic clinical advice and leadership on commissioning, service transformation and improvement across primary, community, acute and mental health services. Sessions may be shared between several clinical leads, so applicants state how many sessions per week they can offer. Applicants must be registered clinicians with degree-level clinical training and substantial senior leadership experience.

What the job involves

• Provide strategic clinical leadership and professional advice across the designated portfolio
• Give evidence-based clinical advice and constructive challenge to inform commissioning, service transformation and improvement within Clinical Policies or Medicines
• Lead clinical engagement and build partnerships across primary, community, acute, mental health, local authority and wider system services
• Influence clinical strategies, pathways and service models to improve quality, safety, patient experience and outcomes
• Champion prevention, population health, reduction of health inequalities and more integrated care closer to home
• Support innovation, digital transformation, productivity and effective use of system resources
• Lead or contribute to clinical programme groups, governance arrangements and system-wide improvement priorities
• Work with fellow clinical leaders to turn strategic ambitions into measurable improvements for patients and communities
• Work within the Medical Leadership Team to make clinical leadership central to strategic decision-making

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree-level education in a clinical or clinically based scientific discipline
• Membership or Fellowship of a relevant professional body or Royal College where applicable, with evidence of CPD and good standing

Registration & licences

• Registration as a clinical practitioner with GMC, NMC, GPhC or HCPC

Experience

• Substantial senior clinical experience in the field for the post, with leadership beyond an individual team or service
• Leading or influencing change across organisational or professional boundaries
• Service development, pathway redesign, transformation or improvement, including performance, quality and safety issues
• Working with senior clinical, managerial and executive stakeholders
• Strong understanding of the NHS and how commissioning, provision and partnership working fit together

Skills & knowledge

• Analyse complex, incomplete or conflicting information and make sound clinical judgements
• Strong communication, influencing, negotiation and facilitation skills, including constructive challenge
• Translate strategic priorities into clinically credible, deliverable action using data and outcomes
• Understanding of quality, patient safety, clinical effectiveness, evidence-based practice, population health and health inequalities

Other

• Make independent clinical recommendations within delegated authority, manage a complex workload and elevate material risks
• Attend sites across the ICB cluster as required, with reasonable adjustments
• Visible, credible, compassionate and collaborative clinical leader who builds trusted relationships and adapts to changing priorities
• Demonstrable commitment to reducing health inequalities and to inclusive, anti-discriminatory leadership

Nice to have

• Formal clinical leadership within an ICB,ICS, provider collaborative, NHS provider, primary care system or comparable environment
• Experience of system-level commissioning or strategic planning
• Knowledge of the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull health and care landscape
• Experience of leading research, evaluation, innovation or quality improvement across organisational boundaries

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