Deputy Chief Medical Officer

The Deputy Chief Medical Officerwill play an integral role in the Chief Medical Officer senior leadership team in shaping the future of Health and Social Care across Greater Manchester. Through previous experience, knowledge and skills, the post holder will quickly build credibility with partners to enable the ICB to be assured of high quality, safe services. They will motivate, inspire, and work collaboratively to support the transformation and maturing of the ICB.

The post holder will be committed to delivering the vision of the ICB and will quickly gain credibility with the wide range of stakeholders. They will bring impressive knowledge and experience, sufficient to support the delivery of integrated working and transformational change in a complex and dynamic public sector environment and across organisational boundaries. They will deputise for the Chief Medical Officer where needed - including leading programmes of work, developing the role of Clinical and Professional leadership, supporting change, and adapting to need as part of a high performing Clinical Executive function in NHS GM integrated Care. they will be focused on patient advocacy and supporting us to move to a high performing system developing safe high-quality care inclusive of all the population. The post holder will work with the Chief Medical Officer to ensure a coherent clinical strategy - bringing together partners across the system.

All members of NHS GM’s senior leadership team are required to lead and inform complex transformation and improvement, through collaboration and mature partnership working. This calls for individuals to use the power of influence rather than positional authority to engage and align people, focus their teams, sustain momentum, and ensure success. Effective system leadership requires the full commitment and ability of senior leaders to create an environment of trust, inclusion, mutual respect, and shared aspiration, in which all can contribute fully and openly to achieving collective goals.

Competent senior system leaders will also be adept in engaging collective intelligence, expertise, and experience to deliver results across organisational boundaries, and will recognise that this requires a focus on relationships as much as results, through the medium of high-quality interaction with colleagues, partners, and external agencies. A principal motivating force for achievement will come from a strong conviction in the underlying principles of subsidiarity and collaboration, combined with the fundamental and overriding desire to make positive contributions to a meaningful purpose.

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care (NHS GM) is responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of the Integrated Care System (ICS), namely: to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money; and help the NHS support broader social and economic development. Within this context, as NHS GM develops as a statutory organisation, a significant challenge will be to determine how it effectively supports and enables place-based and local partnerships to take necessary action that will improve population health outcomes and reduce inequalities (i.e., the unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and between different groups within society).
- Provide clinical leadership to the ICB and work strategically at an ICS level to develop and implement solutions
- Work with the provider collaboratives to enable transformation of priority clinical specialties to deliver more effective and coordinated care and reduce duplication
- Support the ICB Chief Medical Officer Director to develop an ICS Clinical Improvement Hub which is focused on a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, enabling the review of improvement programmes and identification of new areas for improvement
- To work with the Medical Exec Acute Provider leads to ensure delivery of the ICS strategy including integration with Provider Federation Board and the System Boards
- Work collaboratively with ICS partners, regional & national colleagues on this agenda
- Promote a culture of collaborative working across primary, secondary, community and social care to support successful planning and delivery of key system priorities
- Work collaboratively with the ICB senior leadership team
- Attendance at key meetings and chairing where required
- Work with the clinical networks and other improvement resources to enable the ICB deliver its objectives
- As required ensure that the ICB team supports pathway reviews and the re-design of any health services, supporting all relevant clinical networks
- Support the provider collaborative to innovate and develop as the engine room of transformation
- Report regularly on key projects - assimilating and presenting where needed
- Prepare and, when required, present board reports