Medical Director

Job summary
This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and ambitious clinical leader to join FedBucks at a pivotal stage in its development.

As Medical Director and a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will shape the future of primary, urgent and community healthcare across Buckinghamshire, influencing care delivery for more than 550,000 residents.

FedBucks has established itself as a trusted system partner, delivering a broad range of urgent care, intermediate care and primary care support services whilst championing innovation, integration and service transformation. With significant opportunities to expand services, support neighbourhood health development and influence emerging provider models, this role offers the chance to combine executive leadership, clinical excellence and system-wide impact.

Main duties of the job
You will provide visible and inspirational leadership to our multidisciplinary clinical workforce, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, openness, learning and high performance. Working closely with member practices, Primary Care Networks, the Integrated Care Board and wider health and care partners, you will help shape the future direction of local services and support the delivery of high-quality, safe and compassionate care.

The Medical Director will provide executive clinical leadership across FedBucks' diverse portfolio of services, including Out of Hours services, Urgent Treatment Centres, the Clinical Assessment Service, the Virtual Care Hub, intermediate care services, community wellbeing programmes and services supporting Primary Care Networks across Buckinghamshire.

This is a unique opportunity to influence healthcare delivery at scale while helping to create sustainable models of care that improve population health, reduce health inequalities and strengthen primary care for the future.

About us
FedBucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 550,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 300 members of staff at our head office site, and across our planned and unplanned care services.

As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in our purpose in enabling excellent patient care and supporting general practice.

FedBucks is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff are expected to share this commitment and to uphold the organisations safeguarding policies and procedures at all times.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced background check (e.g., DBS) prior to appointment, and regular safeguarding training will be provided and required.

Job responsibilities
The Medical Director will provide visible, credible and responsive clinical leadership across FedBucks, supporting the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care across all services.

Executive and Strategic Leadership

Clinical Leadership and Workforce

Service Development and System Leadership

Statutory and Professional Responsibilities

Quality, Compliance and Governance

Financial Responsibilities

Clinical Practice:
The Medical Director is expected to maintain active clinical practice, undertaking a minimum of 52 clinical sessions per annum (equivalent to approximately one programmed activity per week averaged across the year). This will ensure continued clinical credibility, visibility and engagement with frontline services.

Additional clinical sessions may be undertaken subject to service requirements and will be remunerated in accordance with applicable rota arrangements.

Overall Purpose of the Role
The Medical Director will be a visible and influential clinical leader across Buckinghamshire, helping to shape the future of primary, urgent, community and neighbourhood-based care through collaboration, innovation, quality improvement and system leadership. This is an opportunity to influence healthcare delivery at scale whilst improving outcomes for more than 550,000 residents across Buckinghamshire.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Significant senior clinical leadership experience within the NHS.
• Experience of operating at senior management, executive or Board level.
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary clinical teams and services.
• Experience of developing and implementing clinical strategy.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering service transformation and quality improvement programmes that have resulted in measurable benefits for patients.
• Experience of clinical governance, patient safety, risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Experience of incident investigation, complaints management and clinical audit.
• Experience of workforce development, clinical supervision and professional leadership.
• Experience of working collaboratively with clinicians, managers, commissioners and partner organisations.
• Experience of influencing and working across organisational boundaries within integrated care systems.
• Experience of service planning, demand and capacity management, and performance improvement.
• Experience of operating within financial and resource constraints and contributing to financially sustainable service models.
• Experience of working within primary care, urgent care or community healthcare services.
• Understanding of current NHS policy and strategic direction, including neighbourhood health, integration, population health management and health inequalities.

Desirable

• Previous Medical Director, Associate Medical Director, Clinical Director or equivalent senior leadership experience.
• Experience of working with Primary Care Networks and general practice at scale.
• Experience of NHS 111, Integrated Urgent Care, Urgent Treatment Centres or Out of Hours services.
• Experience of community-based specialist services and intermediate care pathways.
• Experience of working with Integrated Care Boards and provider collaboratives.
• Experience of leading business development, bid development or service mobilisation.
• Experience of supporting organisational growth and diversification.
• Experience as a CQC Nominated Individual, Clinical Safety Officer, Safeguarding Lead or Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer.

Qualifications
Essential

• Medical practitioner with current GMC registration and licence to practise.
• Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register, GP Register, or within six months of entry at the time of appointment.
• Evidence of successful appraisal and revalidation.
• Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development (CPD).

Desirable

• Management or leadership qualification (e.g. MBA, MSc, PGCert, NHS Leadership Academy programmes).
• Training in Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, Clinical Leadership or Health Service Management.
• Qualification or recognised training in coaching, mentoring or leadership development.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

FedBucks is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff are expected to share this commitment and to uphold the organisations safeguarding policies and procedures at all times.