NHS Kent & Medway
Snr Deputy CMO and Dir of Clinical Commissioning
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About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional senior clinical leader to join our executive team as Senior Deputy Chief Medical and Outcomes Officer and Director of Clinical Commissioning. This is a high-profile strategic role providing clinical leadership across commissioning, outcomes improvement, quality, service transformation and acute care delivery.
Acting as the principal deputy to the Chief Medical and Outcomes Officer, you will play a leading role in shaping strategic commissioning decisions, driving clinically led transformation and ensuring the highest standards of quality, patient outcomes and value for money. Working across organisational and system boundaries, you will influence senior clinicians, executives and partners to deliver innovative, evidence-based approaches that improve population health outcomes, reduce inequalities and support sustainable healthcare services.
This role offers an opportunity to contribute at executive level, helping to shape the future direction of services and ensuring clinical leadership remains at the heart of decision-making.
You will provide executive leadership for clinical commissioning, strategic planning and service transformation programmes, ensuring commissioning decisions are informed by robust clinical evidence, population health intelligence and quality improvement methodologies. They will lead major programmes across acute care, urgent and emergency care, elective recovery, diagnostics and pathway redesign, driving improvements in quality, access, productivity and patient outcomes.
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Working closely with executive colleagues and system partners, the successful candidate will support the development of long-term clinical strategy, commissioning intentions and sustainable models of care. They will provide leadership to senior clinical teams, support the development of future clinical leaders and foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and collaboration.
The role includes building strong relationships across providers and partner organisations, providing assurance on performance and outcomes, and influencing strategic decisions that support both improved patient care and the effective use of public resources.
About Us
We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.
Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That’s why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.
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We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.
We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Contact Us
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jodie Way
- Job title: Executive Assistant
- Email address: jodie.way@nhs.net
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