Associate Medical Director roles

Job summary
Help shape the future of healthcare across Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull

Join our Medical Directorate as a clinical leader during system transformation across the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull ICB cluster.

Help deliver our clinical strategy, improve outcomes and tackle health inequalities for our diverse communities. Bring your expertise, energy and ambition to drive change across organisational boundaries.

Sessional leadership opportunities include:

• (i) Primary Care Governance
• (ii) Long Term Conditions
• (iii) Mental Health and LDA
• (iv) Cancer, Elective Care and Diagnostics
• (v) Primary Care Programmes, UEC, Frailty and EoL
• (vi) Womens Health, Maternity and Childrens

We welcome specialist expertise, e.g. CVDRM or Respiratory within Long Term Conditions. Sessions may be shared between clinical leads.

Passionate about better healthcare and ready to challenge existing approaches? We want to hear from you.

Apply with your CV and covering letter to bcicb.recruitment.workforce@nhs.net, stating your clinical area of interest and preferred sessions per week.

Interviews will be held on 23 or 24 November or 2 or 9 December 2026

Main duties of the job
As a senior clinical leader within the Medical Directorate, you will provide strategic clinical leadership and professional advice across your designated portfolio, supporting the development and delivery of priorities across the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull ICB Cluster.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing credible, evidence-based clinical leadership, advice and constructive challenge to inform strategic commissioning, service transformation and improvement
• Leading clinical engagement and building effective partnerships across primary, community, acute, mental health, local authority and wider system services, as required.
• Influencing the development of clinical strategies, pathways and service models to improve quality, safety, patient experience and outcomes.
• Championing prevention, population health, reducing health inequalities and the delivery of more integrated, proactive care closer to home.
• Supporting innovation, digital transformation, productivity and the effective use of system resources.
• Leading or contributing to relevant clinical programme groups, governance arrangements and system-wide improvement priorities.

Working collaboratively with fellow clinical leaders to translate strategic ambitions into measurable improvements for patients and communities.

About us
Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) brings together the NHS, local councils and voluntary sector partners to support 2.7 million people. Our vision is to make the area the healthiest place to live and work by improving life chances and reducing inequalities.

As an employee, you will demonstrate our system values, champion inclusion and help address health inequalities so everyone can thrive. In return, the ICB offers a supportive, ambitious and inclusive workplace, with opportunities to develop and work with partners to deliver meaningful change.

The ICB is committed to a workforce that reflects the population of Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull. We promote equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from everyone who meets the role criteria, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

The ICB is a registered Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and will shortlist suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria.

Employees formally notified that they are at risk of redundancy within the organisation will receive priority consideration for this vacancy if they meet the roles essential requirements. This supports redeployment and helps minimise compulsory redundancies.

Details
Date posted: 23 October 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £350 a session x 42 weeks pa
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 3 years
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: D9118-26-0066

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Educated to degree level in a clinical or clinically based scientific discipline.
• Essential: Registered clinical practitioner (i.e. GMC, NMC, GPhC or HCPC)
• Essential: Member or Fellow of an appropriate professional body / Royal College where relevant.
• Essential: Evidence of continuing professional development and good professional standing

Experience

• Essential: Substantial experience as a senior clinician with evidence of leadership beyond an individual clinical team or service.
• Essential: Experience of leading, influencing or contributing to change across organisational and/or professional boundaries.
• Essential: Experience of service development, pathway redesign, transformation or improvement.
• Desirable: Experience of formal clinical leadership within an ICB, ICS, provider collaborative, NHS provider, primary care system or comparable complex health and care environment.

Employer details
Employer name: Black Country Integrated Care Board
Address: Wolverhampton Civic Centre, St Peter's Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SH, United Kingdom
Contact: Ian Sharp, ian.sharp@nhs.net

The ICB is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. The ICB is a registered Disability Confident Employer.