About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced GP to help shape the future of neighbourhood health and integrated care.
As a multi-neighbourhood medical director, you will provide visible medical leadership across a defined multi-neighbourhood footprint, bringing your experience of general practice and frontline clinical care into system-level planning and decision-making.
You will have a strong understanding of neighbourhood health and population health management, including prevention, early intervention and delivering more joined-up care closer to home. Working across organisational and professional boundaries, you will help translate population need, clinical evidence and frontline insight into practical, clinically credible models of care.
Working as part of a leadership triumvirate alongside a clinical director and operational director, you will build relationships across general practice, community and mental health services, acute care, social care, local authorities and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
Applicants must be GPs with a licence to practise with the General Medical Council.
Base: As these are new roles supporting our multi-neighbourhood model of care, specific bases are currently being determined and will be confirmed at a later stage. Each role will be aligned to the relevant multi-neighbourhood cluster.
Main duties of the job
As multi-neighbourhood medical director, you will provide senior medical leadership and help ensure that the GP and wider medical perspective is embedded in the development of neighbourhood services.
You will
- Provide visible medical and clinical leadership across multi-neighbourhood services
- Bring clinical and medical perspectives from individual neighbourhoods into wider decision-making
- Work with clinical and operational leaders to develop integrated pathways across primary, community and acute care
- Provide senior medical advice and constructive challenge on integrated care, clinical risk, prescribing, diagnostics and shared care arrangements
- Use population health intelligence and clinical evidence to inform prioritisation, risk stratification, prevention and evidence-based interventions
- Build effective relationships across GP practices and wider health and care partners
- Support multidisciplinary and neighbourhood models of care through medical insight, influence and engagement
- Promote shared learning, evidence-based practice, patient safety and continuous improvement
- Work collaboratively with other multi-neighbourhood medical directors and the Local Medical Committee to share best practice and support a consistent approval.
About us
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is currently undertaking a significant programme of transformation to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. As part of this work, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams and roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
Rated 'Outstanding' by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
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As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.
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At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted. The provisional date of the selection event is 16th December 2026, although this may be subject to change.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- License to Practice with the General Medical Council (General Practitioner)
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to medical leadership and the neighbourhood health agenda.
Knowledge
Essential
- Strong understanding of neighbourhood health, population health management, prevention, early intervention and care closer to home
- Experience contributing to system transformation, working across organisational boundaries.
- Experience working with senior governance forums, boards or committees, including presenting clinical insight, assurance and improvement recommendations.
- Ability to work objectively to seek a variety of different perspectives and achieve consensus whilst working in a highly politically challenging system and environment.
- Ability to influence the translation of strategic ambitions into practical and clinically credible delivery plans through medical advice, clinical challenge and consensus-building.
- Ability to advocate for clinicians across organisations and professions, while maintaining a whole neighbourhood and population-focused perspective.
- Ability to build relationships across GP practices, wider health and care sectors recognising the opportunities and challenges faced by each partner.
- Ability to use data, community insight and staff feedback to support creative thinking, improvement and outcomes-focused decision-making.
- Knowledge of relevant NHS policy, clinical practice, NICE guidance, professional standards and Trust policies.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
To be confirmed
TN25 4AZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)