Job overview

The Women’s Health Place Based Clinical Lead for Surrey Heartlands will join the Women’s Health Team and provide clinical leadership for the transformation of primary care pathways to meet the specific population needs of Surrey Heartlands. The successful post holder will work alongside the other Women’s health place-based clinical leads to champion the women’s health strategy agenda. 

There are three roles available, one to cover each place within Surrey Heartlands; Surrey Downs, North West Surrey, and East Surrey.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical leadership and support for transformation of primary care within the area of Women’s Health

•           Assist in the development of the Surrey Heartlands GP workforce in the assessment and management of Women’s health issues in the community.

•           Work with clinical and managerial leads to improve Women’s Health services and deliver them in line with the Long Term Plan and Women’s Health Strategy.

•           Provide a healthy and robust challenge to partners across SH ICS, with the aim of improving patient care and experience.

•           Undertake engagement with health and care professionals and relevant stakeholders to ensure wider support for improvements.

•           Work alongside the other GP place leads to provide professional support, leadership, and specialist advice for Place-based and ICS Clinical Leads.

Working for our organisation

Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) since July 2022, working through 4 Integrated, dynamic, and sustainable place-based partnerships (our Places), each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey.

The 4 Place partnerships are known as:

North West Surrey Alliance

Guildford and Waverley Alliance

Surrey Downs Health and Care

East Surrey Place

We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint and to deliver our objectives we need a team of capable, collaborative professionals who share the same vision. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.

We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

As part of the organisation’s commitment to achieving equality of opportunity for all staff, Surrey Heartlands ICB will consider all requests for flexible working on hiring. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, compressed hours, part-time hours and/or job-sharing, and homeworking.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.

In accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board will not discriminate against or dismiss the applications of candidates with spent convictions for posts which are not exempt from this legislation.