October 14, 2024

NHS Scotland

Hamilton

OTHER

Associate Medical Director (Primary Care)

Associate Medical Director for South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Partnership
NHS Lanarkshire - Almada Street, Hamilton
The University Health and Social Care Partnership (UHSCP) is responsible for providing high quality health and social care services to South Lanarkshire’s communities.
We are now seeking to appoint an Associate Medical Director to support the Medical Director in providing clinical leadership within the partnership and develop Primary Care across Lanarkshire.
This post has been created as we develop our Primary Care Action Plan. It recognises the importance of supporting General Practice and developing new pathways between primary and secondary care, while developing new and transforming existing managed services to meet our population’s needs.
As a GMC-registered practitioner, with extensive experience in Community and Primary Care, you will use your outstanding leadership skills to guide the medical professionals under your remit, looking for ways in which we can continue to work collaboratively with key stakeholders. You will use your experience of medical management in the NHS to support an environment of continuous improvement and transformational change.
This post will be offered on the Consultant salary scale (£96,963-£128,841 per annum pro rata). The hours for the post will be up to 24 hours per week. In addition, the post attracts a management fee of £20,644 pa.
For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Elizabeth Drumm, Secretary to the Medical Director for South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Partnership at Elizabeth.drumm@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
If you are confident you can meet the challenges of this important and highly visible role then we would welcome your application.
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For any application queries, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Senior HR Assistant on or via medical.dentalconsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

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