Associate Medical Director for Primary Care Interfaces
NHS grade consultant
Main area Primary Care Grade NHS grade consultant Contract Fixed term: 2 years (2 year tenure, until March 2027) Hours Part time - 8 hours per week (50% of which must be spent on site.) Job ref 361-6875087
Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary per hour Closing 09/02/2025 23:59
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
This is a key role, driving our integration efforts between primary care, general practice and our Trust, improving and implementing care pathways and strengthening our referrals/transfer of care/discharge processes and where appropriate reducing bureaucracy and streamlining processes. As part of the roll out on our new electronic record (EPR), the postholder will work with others to improve timeliness and quality of communication with primary care and other local care providers, to enhance patient safety. The role will also participate in trust transformation of services especially in areas of work which have impact on primary care.
Main duties of the job
1. To demonstrate our Trust values.
2. Participate as key member of the clinical leadership in the trust and across primary care in the improvement/development and implementation of integrated care pathways between primary care, general practice, and ENHT.
3. Strengthen the referral pathways and transfer of care/discharge processes to ensure smooth patient pathways and improved communication between ENHT and General Practice.
4. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with GPs, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), locality and HCP Clinical leadership and other stakeholders through regular forums and events to support continuous improvement.
5. Develop and maintain working relationships with Trust clinical leaders and clinical teams, to enhance collaboration between organisations.
6. As part of the introduction of a new electronic patient record, work in liaison with the Chief Clinical Information Officer and digital team at trust and ICS level to improve the quality and timeliness of communication with primary care to enhance patient safety and efficiency. This includes identifying areas of reducing bureaucracy and across primary and secondary care to streamline pathways and enhance integration.
7. To work with the trust CIO and ICS system digital leadership to ensure that ENHT digital strategy compliments system digital transformation.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Be an ambassador for the trust for data quality not only for patient safety but also as an important enabler to ICB and national new models of care.
2. Bring the primary care experience and understanding into the trust clinical leadership and also support trust education and training of junior doctors and other clinical leads providing primary care overview.
3. Participate in the transformation of services in the trust which impact on primary care and how pathways and unintended consequences are understood but also opportunity to new ways of working from trust operational delivery model.
4. Work with clinicians, the strategy and planning teams the Kaizen Office and the ICB’s “Care Closer to Home” model workstream on initiatives to reshape services traditionally delivered in secondary care, focusing on preventative care and long-term condition management within primary/community care settings in line with the local and national strategic direction of travel.
5. Support the GP Liaison Officer to ensure issues highlighted by both external and internal stakeholders are dealt with promptly, ensuring themes are identified and the necessary improvements implemented across the secondary and primary care interface.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
* Clinical qualification, with relevant registration.
Previous Experience
* Proven experience in a senior clinical leadership role within a primary care in East and North Hertfordshire.
* A deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing both primary and secondary care within the NHS.
* A track record of successfully leading projects that deliver measurable improvements in patient care and service integration.
* Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice.
Skills
* Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, capable of engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
* Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop innovative solutions to complex healthcare challenges.
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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