multi-neighbourhood medical director

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced GP to help shape the future ofneighbourhood healthand 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. 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.
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.

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. Find out more about the community difference here. Good luck! We can't wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity. 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.