# Associate Chief Medical Officer Primary Care Interface **Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Chertsey **Experience**: senior **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year pro rata **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9323-26-0545?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_167f539d-e53 ## Description An exciting opportunity at Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has arisen for a part-time primary care GP to facilitate an effective, supportive interface across organisational boundaries to improve and maintain quality patient care. The Associate Chief Medical Officer (Primary Care Interface) is a senior clinical leadership role focused on improving how primary care and secondary care work together for the benefit of patients. The postholder will act as a key clinical bridge between general practice, community services and the acute Trust, strengthening relationships, improving communication, and reducing friction across the healthcare system. **Main duties of the job** - Provide senior clinical leadership to improve the interface between primary care, community services and secondary care. - Act as a visible and accessible clinical leader to both GPs and hospital clinicians on interface matters. - Support a culture of shared responsibility for patient care across organisational boundaries. - Collect and collate information for self-assessment reports 6 monthly in relation to interface working and the use of the GIRFT checklist bridging the gap. **Relationship Building and Mutual Understanding** - Develop and sustain strong working relationships between general practice, PCNs, neighbourhood teams, hospital specialties and system partners. - Promote mutual understanding of roles, pressures, constraints and decision-making in both primary and secondary care. - Establish regular clinical forums that enable constructive dialogue and shared problem-solving. **Referral, Advice and Transfer of Care** - Work with clinical teams to improve the quality and clarity of referrals, advice and guidance, and transfer of care processes. - Support improvements in discharge communication, ensuring it is timely, clinically useful and patient-centred. - Help reduce unwarranted variation and administrative burden across interface processes. **Pathway and Interface Improvement** - Identify and address recurring friction points in patient pathways between primary and secondary care. - Support clinically led pathway redesign where it impacts both hospital and community-based care. - Facilitate shared learning between hospital specialists and community clinicians, promoting best practice. **Engagement and Collaborative Leadership** - Facilitate regular engagement between primary care clinicians, consultants and operational leaders. - Support resolution of disagreements in a constructive, patient-focused manner. **Quality, Safety and Patient Experience** - Promote improvements in patient experience at transitions of care. - Support safe, consistent and effective communication across organisational boundaries. **Strategic Contribution** - Support Trust-wide and system-wide transformation programmes where they affect the primary-secondary care interface. - Contribute to integrated care system (ICS) priorities relating to integration, neighbourhood working and elective recovery. **Benefits** - The full range of NHS benefits & discounts. ## Skills ### Required - MRCGP - GMC registration - senior clinical leadership - service improvement - pathway redesign ### Nice to have - management qualification - quality improvement qualification - integrated care models --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9323-26-0545?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)