Multi-Neighbourhood Medical Director: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced GP to help shape the future of neighbourhood health and integrated care.

As a multi-neighbourhood medical director, you will provide visible medical leadership across a defined multi-neighbourhood footprint, bringing your experience of general practice and frontline clinical care into system-level planning and decision-making.

You will have a strong understanding of neighbourhood health and population health management, including prevention, early intervention and delivering more joined-up care closer to home. Working across organisational and professional boundaries, you will help translate population need, clinical evidence and frontline insight into practical, clinically credible models of care.

Working as part of a leadership triumvirate alongside a clinical director and operational director, you will build relationships across general practice, community and mental health services, acute care, social care, local authorities and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Applicants must be GPs with a licence to practise with the General Medical Council.

Base: As these are new roles supporting our multi-neighbourhood model of care, specific bases are currently being determined and will be confirmed at a later stage. Each role will be aligned to the relevant multi-neighbourhood cluster.

Main duties of the job

As multi-neighbourhood medical director, you will provide senior medical leadership and help ensure that the GP and wider medical perspective is embedded in the development of neighbourhood services.

You will:

• Provide visible medical and clinical leadership across multi-neighbourhood services
• Bring clinical and medical perspectives from individual neighbourhoods into wider decision-making
• Work with clinical and operational leaders to develop integrated pathways across primary, community and acute care
• Provide senior medical advice and constructive challenge on integrated care, clinical risk, prescribing, diagnostics and shared care arrangements
• Use population health intelligence and clinical evidence to inform prioritisation, risk stratification, prevention and evidence-based interventions
• Build effective relationships across GP practices and wider health and care partners
• Support multidisciplinary and neighbourhood models of care through medical insight, influence and engagement
• Promote shared learning, evidence-based practice, patient safety and continuous improvement
• Work collaboratively with other multi-neighbourhood medical directors and the Local Medical Committee to share best practice and support a consistent approval.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• License to Practice with the General Medical Council (General Practitioner)
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to medical leadership and the neighbourhood health agenda.

Knowledge

Essential

• Strong understanding of neighbourhood health, population health management, prevention, early intervention and care closer to home
• Experience contributing to system transformation, working across organisational boundaries.
• Experience working with senior governance forums, boards or committees, including presenting clinical insight, assurance and improvement recommendations.
• Ability to work objectively to seek a variety of different perspectives and achieve consensus whilst working in a highly politically challenging system and environment.
• Ability to influence the translation of strategic ambitions into practical and clinically credible delivery plans through medical advice, clinical challenge and consensus-building.
• Ability to advocate for clinicians across organisations and professions, while maintaining a whole neighbourhood and population-focused perspective.
• Ability to build relationships across GP practices, wider health and care sectors recognising the opportunities and challenges faced by each partner.
• Ability to use data, community insight and staff feedback to support creative thinking, improvement and outcomes-focused decision-making.
• Knowledge of relevant NHS policy, clinical practice, NICE guidance, professional standards and Trust policies.

Closing Date: 29 November 2026