Medical Director - North Cumbria Primary Care Alliance

Salary: £115,885 pa 

Base: To be agreed, but please note the clinical session will be worked at our James Street Practice in Workington 

Could you be our new Medical Director? Are you an excellent communicator with the ability to inspire and motivate others? Do you have a good understanding of the broader health care environment and a passion for continuous improvement? We are looking for a visionary Medical Director to help shape and lead the future of our organisation. You will have a strategic mind set with the ability to articulate a clear vision for advancing patient care, quality improvement and growing our organisation. You will be comfortable with providing constructive challenge and making effective if sometimes difficult decisions. With two days per week embedded in one of our practices, you will have ample opportunity to work as part of a clinical team and apply your excellent clinical skills. 

Background: North Cumbria Primary Care Ltd. (NCPC) is a clinically-led, not for profit company, where all of our GPs are employees, meaning that all financial risks, responsibilities and liabilities sit with our not for profit limited company, rather than with individual partners. Our organisation is led collaboratively, with an efficient head office support function. We run 6 practices across 16 sites in North Cumbria - from Carlisle across to Workington and Whitehaven, and down to Bootle. Delivering services to a patient population of about 100,000 people, we are members of 3 PCNs, employ 430 staff and work collaboratively across the practices, seeking to work at scale where this is of benefit. We have a strong focus on training for all clinical roles represented in our clinical team, and a philosophy of “growing our own”. 

We are already developing strong links with the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine, which has its first intake of medical students in September 2025. 

Does this sound like you? If so we would love to hear from you. 

For an informal discussion please contact our Managing Director Karen Morrell at karen.morrell3@nhs.net or Medical Director Dr Joanne Daly at joanne.daly11@nhs.net.