North Lewisham Primary Care Network rpiEHUep
Key responsibilities include offering clinical support and advice, leading workforce development, and developing relationships with various stakeholders, including Integrated Care Boards. The role requires a practicing qualified clinician who is adaptable, resilient, and confident in navigating both strategic and operational matters within the PCN. Candidates with local experience are preferred but not mandatory.
We are seeking a thoughtful and skilled Clinical Director to help provide clinical insights for our PCN. The CD will work in close partnership with our PCN Managing Director (MD) and wider management team to ensure we meet the goals/objectives set out by the board and member practices.
This is a genuinely exciting opportunity for someone with strong clinical experience to take on a leadership role, helping to build out an impactful at-scale healthcare service for a population of over 80,000 patients in one of the most interesting, diverse areas of London.
The successful candidate will:
- Provide clinical input / insight as we design and evaluate services
- Offer clinical support and advice to PCN Management and Board
- Lead clinical supervision and workforce development for PCN staff
- Ensure the PCN is meeting key contract and system requirements
- Develop relationships, represent the PCN and help bring together wider stakeholders
The right candidate will demonstrate excellent clinical skills, brilliant communication, analytical thinking and financial literacy. Youll need to be confident, proactive, adaptable and resilient.
You should have a strong understanding of GP Primary Care and the wider NHS system (incl. ICBs and PCNs). If you have experience working locally that will be helpful, but its not required.
It is a key role requirement that you are a practicing qualified clinician who is currently working or would be happy to work in a member practice in the PCN.
About us
Role title:
NL PCN Clinical Director
Term and reviews:
This is a two-year fixed-term post, with the position being subject to an annual review after an initial 6-month probationary review.
Introduction:
Over the last five years, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) have become a vital component of the GP Primary Care landscape. They enable groups of practices to work together to build greater resilience and deliver improved care for patients by delivering certain services at scale.
As per statutory guidance, each PCN must appoint a named Clinical Director (CD) who is accountable for ensuring the PCN delivers on the requirements set out in the Network Contract DES (the DES). Within North Lewisham PCN (NL PCN), the CD will work in close partnership with our PCN Managing Director (MD) and wider management team to ensure our PCN meets the goals/objectives set out by the board and member practices.
In this role, you will be provide clinical input/insight as we design and evaluate services, offer clinical support and advice, and help bring together wider stakeholders (including the ICB). The CD will also help foster a culture of quality improvement within the PCN and ensure were meeting our requirements under the Network Contract DES.
The CD will work pari-passu with our PCN MD to ensure we have both clinical and managerial skills at the table as we develop and maintain our PCN. The CD will be accountable to Board of North Lewisham PCN ltd.
Key responsibilities:
The role of the clinical director may vary from time to time as we develop our PCN, but key responsibilities will include:
- Providing clinical insight into the design, development and evaluation of PCN services
- Offering clinical support and advice to PCN Management and Board in matters ranging from the granular and specific to the macro and strategic
- Working in close partnership with the PCN MD, who is responsible for delivering the strategic and operational management of the PCN
- Clinical supervision of the staff working for the PCN (either in salaried/permanent roles or those in freelance/locum roles)
- Ensuring the PCN and its staff are meeting key system requirements and best practice guidelines
- Providing leadership on workforce development, through assessment of clinical skill mix and development of network workforce strategy
- Developing relationships across practices, the PCN and the wider landscape (including ICB / Place teams) to help us meet objectives
- Representing the PCN, where required, in appropriate forums e.g. ICB meetings + feeding back to practices and the PCN where relevant
- Fostering a culture of constant quality improvement to ensure our services are meeting the needs of patients and practices
- Support work on maximising value (achieving best quality for least cost) in particular working with the PCN on referral rates, unwarranted clinical variation, effective prescribing and financial efficiencies.
- Being up to date on national and local requirements for our PCN ensuring to separate nice to have from mandatory asks
- Ensuring were meeting our requirements under the DES and that you as CD are meeting your obligations under the DES
- To carry out any other reasonable requests by PCN board majority
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