Deputy Primary Care Medical Director (East)

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Candidates are encouraged to refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice and entry on the GP Register
• Management or leadership experience
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate medical qualification or equivalent qualification / experience experience in leadership or health inequalities or population health

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• 1. Good understanding of general practice and dental provision within North Wales. 2. A good understanding of the health and social care management environment in Wales and of roles and responsibilities within it. 3. A good understanding of Welsh Government and its national targets. 4. A good understanding of quality improvement and performance management methodology. 5. The Safety and standards agenda. 6. An understanding of the principles of Public Health that are relevant to, and underpin the work of the IHC.

Experience

Essential criteria

• 1. Must be or have been a practising GP/GDP or be able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of the issues involved in Primary Care. 2. Able to demonstrate activity within the area of Clinical Governance. 3. Significant organisational change experience/managing difficult and complex change. 4. A track record of achievement in: Effective performance management; Introducing robust systems and processes; Facilitation of groups; Undertaking sensitive negotiations. 5. Developing an organisational culture that promotes clinical engagement in decision making and leading continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies.

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential criteria

• 1. Innovative, with strong service focussed approach, exceptional communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills. 2. Ability to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear sense of direction and vision to a wide audience. 3. Ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrable leadership and ambassadorial skills with an ability to demonstrate a flexible leadership style. 4. Commitment and passion for citizen focused service with the ability to embed such an ethos at all levels of the organisation. 5. High level of Negotiating skills; Influencing skills; Interpersonal skills; and Communication skills. 6. Ability to contribute to policy development. 7. Decisive leader, capable and committed to translating policy and analysis into practical actions. 8. Strong prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands. 9. High degree of analytic skills. 10. High degree of report writing skills. 11. Team player with experience of managing teams. 12. Able to demonstrate clinical engagement with medical and dental staff 13. Ability to deal with the media.

Values

Essential criteria

• 1. Lead by the Health Board's Values (Put patients first; Value and respect each other; Work together as one team; Learn and innovate; Communicate openly and honestly). 2. Able to relate and adapt to the perspective of others. 3. Confident of management ability and ability to be credible and confident in dealing with both clinicians and senior management staff. 4. Calm and rational approach to situations where conflict is likely. 5. Clarity of thought and articulate. Lead by example.

Other

Essential criteria

• 1. Significant clinical skills with the competency to use evidenced based practice in terms of managing safe clinical services. 2. Ability to travel in a timely manner throughout the geographical area of North Wales and across Wales. 3. Able to work hours flexibly. 4. Welsh speaker or commitment to learn basic conversational Welsh 5. In date Job Plan or equivalent and appraisal

Desirable criteria

• IT literate (proficient in MS Office e.g. Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) with standard keyboard skills.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

• JD & PS (English) (PDF, 592.3KB)
• JD & PS (Welsh) (PDF, 680.5KB)
• OH Form Bilingual (PDF, 640.5KB)
• Values and Proud to Lead (PDF, 335.6KB)
• NWSSP Recruitment Services Privacy Notice (PDF, 696.3KB)
• NHS North Wales - The Right Choice (PDF, 3.6MB)
• Welsh Language Matrix (PDF, 134.3KB)
• Betsi Cadwaladr Relocation (PDF, 6.8MB)
• Guidance notes for Applicants v1.2 April 2024-bilingual (PDF, 267.0KB)