Associate Medical Director - ACS

Shape the Future of Adult Community Services (ACS) Care in Cornwall

Are you a passionate and forward‑thinking senior General Practitioner looking to make a real difference? Join Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a key leader in our mental health specialties within the medical directorate's senior leadership team.

In this influential role, you'll collaborate with the Chief Medical Officer, Director of ACS, quadrumvirate teams, operational managers, and clinical directors to spearhead innovation and shape the future of mental health services. Your leadership will drive transformative change, aligning with our clinical strategy and workforce development plans.

This is your opportunity to:

• Lead ground-breaking initiatives to improve community health care.
• Have your expertise recognised and your voice amplified.
• Advance your career within a dynamic and supportive environment.

Be part of a forward-thinking team committed to delivering exceptional community health services across Cornwall. Apply now and help us create a brighter future for our community.

• Drive Performance Excellence: Deliver on Key Performance Indicators for community health services, ensuring compliance with national standards and Care Quality Commission (CQC) requirements.
• Champion Service Improvement: Coordinate and lead service enhancements across all community health directorates, fostering integration with wider system partners.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Advise on and support negotiations with healthcare commissioners, ensuring strategic alignment with service priorities and demands.
• Promote Clinical Governance: Work closely with executive and clinical leads to ensure robust governance throughout the mental health care pathways.
• Foster Inclusivity: Advocate for a culture of belonging and equality, ensuring diverse representation and a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination.
• Financial Stewardship: Support financial planning and management, collaborating with the Chief Medical Officer and Director of Community Services to develop sustainable service plans.

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Although this role is for 6 programmed activities, there is opportunity for the right candidate to take on additional clinical responsibility up to 9 programmed activities.

To view a detailed approved job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.

• Understanding of the provision and delivery of health care services and of Government strategy and plans for modernising health care
• Thorough knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the National Health Service and its inter-relationship with other agencies
• Understanding of the implications for medical staff of the modernisation agenda
• Extensive knowledge of clinical audit, research and development and evidence based practice

• Medical qualification and appropriate royal college membership or…