Job overview

As we move towards a new era of integrated care and working collaboratively across organisational boundaries, the need for dynamic, focused clinical leadership is vital. As the Clinical Director for Elective Care and Diagnostics commissioning you will support commissioning of comprehensive elective and diagnostic services for Kent and Medway ICS focused on improving the health of the population and the quality of care and improvement in outcomes. You will drive service change and transformation through effective clinical leadership and engagement in collaboration with wider senior leadership teams and system partners to make the most of our resources, tackle the challenges we face, redesign care and ultimately improve the health and wellbeing of the population we serve.

The Clinical Director for electives and diagnostics will be responsible for clinical oversight of all improvement programmes in this area which are being delivered across the Kent and Medway system.  The programmes will ensure that the system delivers its clinical transformation priorities to benefit the K&M population.

Main duties of the job

• Work alongside colleagues from the ICB Commissioning team as part of a multidisciplinary group to drive service change and transformation in elective care and diagnostics.
• Oversee the quality of these services delivered in the ICS area, including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside the system to improve quality of care and outcomes.
• Be professionally accountable to the Chief Medical & Outcomes Officer (CMOO) and deputise for the CMOO as requested in key performance, monitoring, and accountability matters, providing feedback to the CMOO and wider Executive Team in relation to their portfolio of work.
• Provide clinical leadership insight and challenge to how system partners address clinical system resilience, sustainability and positive outcomes, development improvement, and quality and safety of patient care.
• Provide clinical advice and leadership to support strategic commissioning and transformation programmes emphasising clinical engagement; improving clinical resilience; removing unwarranted variation and health inequalities and promoting improvement in outcomes. This may include developing approaches which are non-traditional in nature, ambitious and wide reaching in areas which incorporate the wider determinants that have an impact on improving clinical outcomes, better life outcomes and reducing health inequalities for the population of the ICS.

Working for our organisation

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.