Associate Medical Director - Nottingham, United Kingdom - NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
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Nottingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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The Associate Medical Director (Optometry) provides clinical leadership and advice to the East Midlands team to support the delivery of the East Midlands objectives with particular reference to provision of:
Provide Clinical and legal advice to commissioning colleagues across the East Midlands

Ensuring patient safety and provision of high-quality services are in line with legislation and accepted best practice.

Clinical leadership and advice to external stakeholders


Specifically, the team will:


Provide high quality Optometry advice to all relevant stakeholders, including the Primary Care Commissioning Teams (as directed) on matters relating to assurance of Optometry practice.

Undertake investigations of complaints, serious incidents, and performance concerns for contractors.


Provide services to other colleagues across the East Midlands and Primary Care Contracting Team to support the implementation of national and local policy relating to the provision of community Optometry services.

Improving quality and outcomes


Provide high quality Optometry advice to all relevant stakeholders, including the Primary Care Commissioning Teams (as directed) on matters relating to assurance of Optometry practice.

Undertake investigations of complaints, serious incidents, and performance concerns for contractors.


Provide services to other colleagues within the East Midlands footprint and Primary Care Contracting Team to support the implementation of national and local policy.

Submit all reports to agreed timelines and quality.

Ensure fairness in all performance matters and take care to avoid discrimination.

To ensure any required mandatory and statutory training is completed to the required level and timeline.


The employee must maintain full professional registration and be prepared to provide evidence to the Medical Director that they are up to date and fit to practise.


Maintain confidentiality at all times, ensuring adherence to the requirement of the Data Protection Act 1998, NHS confidentiality guidance and relevant professional codes of conduct.


NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.


We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.


We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.

In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).


The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Promoting equality and reducing inequalities

To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.


To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.

Partnership and cross boundary working

To liaise with NHS Optometry contractors

To liaise with Optometry leads

To liaise with key staff in other teams


Provide advice to all relevant stakeholders, including the Primary Care Commissioning Team (as directed) on matters relating to assurance of Optometry practice.

To provide clinical and professional input to investigations and subsequent management of serious untoward incidents, complaints, and other clinical incidents

Operational requirements

Working within the overall strategic objectives, devise, implement and monitor the agreed strategy. Evaluate, interpret, and locally implement best practice.

Contribute to the delivery of the function.

Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the organisational strategy. Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports. Tailoring delivery to meet the needs of the audience.

Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels. Challenge way
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