Clinical Director UEC & Flow
The closing date is 07 June 2026
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts; the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards
As we move towards a new era of integrated care and working collaboratively across organisational boundaries, the need for dynamic, focused clinical leadership is vital. As the Clinical Director for Urgent & Emergency Care and Flow commissioning you will support commissioning of comprehensive services for Kent and Medway ICs focused on improving the health of the population and the quality of care and improvement in outcomes. You will drive service change and transformation through effective clinical leadership and engagement in collaboration with wider senior leadership teams and system partners to make the most of our resources, tackle the challenges we face, redesign care and ultimately improve the health and wellbeing of the population we serve.
The Clinical Director for UEC and Flow will be responsible for clinical oversight of all improvement programmes in this area which are being delivered across the Kent and Medway system. The programmes will ensure that the system delivers clinical transformation priorities to benefit the K&M population.
Main duties of the job
- Work alongside colleagues from the ICB Commissioning team as part of a multidisciplinary group to drive service change and transformation in UES and Flow across sectors of care.
- Oversee the quality of these services delivered in the ICs area, including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside the system to improve quality of care and outcomes.
- Be professionally accountable to the Chief Medical & Outcomes Officer (CMOO) and deputise for the CMOO as requested in key performance, monitoring, and accountability matters, providing feedback to the CMOO and wider Executive Team in relation to their portfolio of work.
- Responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, primary care, provider trusts and other partners, including local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequity.
- Provide clinical leadership insight and challenge to how system partners address clinical system resilience, sustainability and positive outcomes, development improvement, and quality and safety of patient care.
Person Specification
- A practising secondary care clinician in Kent and Medway working a minimum of two clinical sessions per week.
- Evidence of sound stakeholder engagement through effective communication and interactions with wider clinical colleagues, patients, members of the public and leaders of other organisations.
- Evidence of influencing clinical considerations from the perspective of primary care, community care and acute care including when these differ from personal preferences.
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.
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