Associate Medical Director – Primary Care (full or part-time)

NHS 24 are recruiting for an Associate Medical Director – Primary Care

We are looking for an additional Associate Medical Director to join our growing medical directorate to provide clinical leadership and expertise to the 111 service, scheduled care and digitally delivered services across 24 hours.  This position is on a temporary basis with the potential to run until February 2025.  The successful post holder will be based in one of our West of Scotland centres, the position is full time, however part time hours will be considered.

Are you:

• A member of the Royal College of General Practice, or equivalent, with significant senior management experience?
• 10 years experienced in delivering general practice and primary care services as well as interface working with acute and community NHS services and colleagues.
• Able to provide professional support and clinical expertise to multi-disciplinary teams of clinical and non-clinical staff?
• Confident, resilient, knowledgeable, and personable?

Then this may be the next step in your career, NHS 24 continues to rapidly expand and are the digital front door for healthcare – we are the future.

About Us:

NHS 24 is the national provider of telephone and digital services including 111, NHS inform and Breathing Space.  Working with partners across health and care, we provide information and access to urgent and out-of-hours care for people across Scotland through a range of channels including telephone, website and web chat.

In 2021 we helped over 1.5 million patients, expanded our workforce and our estate to cope with demand.  Now is a great time to be working for us as we continue to grow and deliver safe, responsive person centred services to the public of Scotland.  We are a rapidly expanding organisation and are at the forefront of pioneering new and innovative ways of working.

About the Role:

As an Associate Medical Director – Primary Care you can make a difference, strategically, organisationally and locally (patients, staff and partners) across the whole of Scotland.  You are influential, a vessel for change and a medical expert whose knowledge and skills will be used across all NHS 24 clinical services and channels.  You can influence the development and delivery of digitally supported medical services and clinical decision support throughout the whole patient pathway.

We are one of 7 special boards and unlike a territorial board we have around 2000 employees, across 13 sites, which means we are more personable with staff having greater involvement and scope to innovate.

You will work predominately in hours however there is an on call rota for which you would receive a supplement for. 

In return we will give you a role where you can:

• Have significant freedom to act
• Engage with stakeholders from across Scotland
• Shape the culture of a growing workforce and the vision for the future direction of NHS24
• Work autonomously
• .As well as all the usual perks of working with the NHS (generous annual leave; family friendly policies; dedicated CPD time; discount schemes; enhanced pay for working out of hours; SPPA pension scheme).

Want to Know More?

If you want to be part of the future of health then read our job pack and person specification where you can find further information.  You can also contact Dr Laura Ryan, Medical Director at: Laura.Ryan@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk for a discussion about the role.

The closing date for submitting your completed application is midnight on 28th of April 2023.​​​​​​​

For more information on NHS 24 and our vacancies, please see our microsite with the link: https://careers.nhs24.scot/ ​​​​​​​

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Predicted Timeline

* The above dates are subject to change. 

NHS 24 is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce.  We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.