Deputy Medical Director – Derby & Derbyshire GP Provider Board (“GPPB”)

      Background of GPPB

The formation of GPPB is the culmination of work by the Derbyshire GP Alliance, to create a single, unified, appropriately representative and learned Derbyshire GP voice into the Integrated Care System (ICS) at all required strategic and operational forum and workstream levels.

Established by GPs, GPPB brings together Primary Care Networks (via their Clinical Directors) and General Practices and GPs (via the Local Medical Committee) and is mandated to represent general practice in the local ICS (which is known as Joined-Up Care Derbyshire - JUCD).

The mission, vision and values of GPPB are:

Mission

• To provide a collaborative voice for developing the future of general practice provision within the Derbyshire health and care system.

Vision

• Maximise the opportunities to lead general practice to improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

Values

• Progressive, collaborative, supportive and transformative.

The strategic aims of GPPB are:

• To build strong relationships and communications, based on trust and transparency, with all Derbyshire GP practices.
• To ensure, as the representative general practice provider organisation within Derbyshire, effective two-way communication between General Practice and the integrated care community.
• To put general practice on the strongest possible footing, now and in the future, for the      benefit of patients, communities, and staff.
• To realise the benefits of collaborative working, sharing innovations whilst maintaining and extending the strengths of autonomous members and continuity of    care.
• To make general practice in Derbyshire an attractive place to work.

  Derbyshire GPPB works closely with Derby & Derbyshire LMC and General Practice Task Force Derbyshire to provide a wide range of support to General Practice, recognising the fundamental role General Practice plays in providing care to patients in an increasingly complex and challenging environment.

       Main Duties, Tasks and Responsibilities

Leadership

As Deputy Medical Director you will:

• Share corporate responsibility for the overall strategic development and day-to-day running of GPPB including setting the culture, strategy, systems, and processes.
• Ensure sufficient resources are in place and aligned to the delivery of GPPB strategies and plans.
• Work very closely with the GPPB Medical Director, GPPB Programme Director and GPPB Head of Operations and Delivery, in developing and delivering GPPB strategy.
• Play a key role with GPPB’s enablement of general practice engaging effectively with the developing Integrated Care System.
• Help GPPB as it brings together General Practice leaders to function at the centre of system decision making, speaking with one voice, and working collaboratively for the benefit of our population.
• Personally demonstrate value based, inclusive and compassionate leadership, and develop the necessary culture, systems, and processes to ensure that these leadership behaviours are consistently practised across the organisation.
• Ensure a good understanding of the national perspective and future strategy for the NHS and related areas of Health and Social Care, in order to design and deliver leading edge innovative new or improved services.
• Work with Health and Care colleagues to developing a share purpose in order to deliver benefits for patients, their families and community.

System Engagement and Representation

As Deputy Medical Director you will:

• Develop effective working relationships and champion the values and vision of GPPB with key stakeholders within JUCD.
• Proactively engage with senior medical colleagues within the system (e.g. community health, acute trusts, CCG, social care) to promote General Practice and the value it brings to the wider system.
• Attend GPPB meetings, supporting the development and delivery of the GPPB and its activities.
• Attend key system meetings as clinical representative for GPPB.
• Work with GPTF and DDLMC to embed and support effective coordination of General Practice representation at system meetings and sharing of relevant information with stakeholders as required.
• Engage in networking and collaboration at a national level with other relevant general practice and healthcare bodies.
• Engage with Public Health practitioners, Health & Wellbeing system, and Local Authority, including awareness, campaigns, and ICS deliverables.
• Work with clinicians and Allied Health Professionals on joint working across primary, secondary and community care pathways

Professional Advice and Leadership

  As Deputy Medical Director you will:

• Understand and take into account the interests and needs of all GPPB members, ensuring equity and parity.
• Develop strong relationships with the PCNs and PCN Area Boards.
• Ensure that GPPB is inclusive of and responsive to all practices and supports the        resilience of general practice in a rapidly changing landscape.
• Be a lead clinician in developing the culture, strategy, systems, and processes for collective General Practice provision at scale in order to be seen on an equal footing with all other Derbyshire NHS and Care Providers and their system leaders.
• Work closely with and support the Medical Director, ensuring consistent key messages are conveyed into system meetings.
• Play a key role in supporting and overseeing the work of GPPB's clinical leads in system meetings and pathway transformation work.
• Support the development of our Primary Care Networks and Area Boards.

Strategy and Service Development

 As Deputy Medical Director you will:

• Help lead the development of the GPPB’s clinical and operational strategy, ensuring that the proposed service developments are clinically sound, maximising the GPPB’s contribution to health and well-being within Derbyshire ICB’s strategy.
• Play an important role in the Derbyshire ICB system, representing GPPB at a system level to ensure that the role of general practice’s services and workforce in a transformed system is understood, valued, and maximised.
• Be part of the GPPB’s ‘medical voice’, develop constructive and collaborative relationships with local GPs and GP related organisations and networks in support of the corporate agenda and clinical strategy.

      KEY RELATIONSHIPS

The Deputy Medical Director will demonstrate professional, well established, and effective communication skills, both within and external to the organisation.

The Deputy Medical Director is accountable to the GPPB Medical Director, and hence to the GP Provider Board itself.

Key Working Relationships Internal / General Practice:

• GPPB Medical Director
• GPPB Programme Director
• GPPB Head of Operations and Delivery
• GPPB Chair
• Derbyshire GP Provider Board members
• Derbyshire General Practice clinicians and staff
• Derby and Derbyshire LMC
• Derbyshire GP Task Force and Health Education Derbyshire

Key Working Relationships External:

• Derby City and Derbyshire Primary Care Network Clinical Directors
• Derby City and Derbyshire Primary Care Networks
• Derby City and Derbyshire Integrated Care Leads, Directors and Officers
• Derbyshire NHS FT and Trust Clinicians, Chief Executives, Directors and Officers
• NHS England/Improvement
• Derby City and Derbyshire Healthwatch
• Local Authority, Directors of Social Care & Senior Staff, District Council senior staff
• Commissioning Support Services
• Other local Providers including third and voluntary sector
• Care Quality Commission and other regulators
• Other NHS and care bodies e.g., Health Education England
• Patients, Service Users, the Public and the Media