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  • Advert number: 317193-0
  • Posted Date: 14/11/12
  • Closing Date: 07/12/12

Wessex Local Medical Committees Limited
Providing services to GPs in
Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire,
Jersey and Guernsey

Post: Medical Director
3 days per week

These are challenging times for General Practice. There has been much change and there is clearly a lot more to come. On behalf of Wessex General Medical Practitioners the LMC works with a number of other organisations to ensure that the interests of our constituents and of the profession are represented and heard. We are looking to appoint a Medical Director to work within the highly regarded and well motivated Senior Management team.

Applications are invited from Medical Practitioners working in General Practice. A working knowledge of the various GP/Primary Care Regulations in order to guide the LMCs members in regulatory, legal, and contractual matters would be beneficial.

You will also be required to act as a source of advice on a wide range of issues to GPs seeking help from the LMC and be required to work with the emerging CCGs and local authorities as appropriate.

The Medical Director post will be based in Chandler’s Ford (between Winchester and Southampton – close to the M3). The post has 2 fixed days, namely Tuesday and Wednesday with some flexibility on the third day - some travel will be required. The appointee will be expected to continue clinical work as a General Medical Practitioner.

The successful applicant will work as part of a team to deliver the agenda of the

3 LMCs served by the Secretariat of the Wessex LMCs. For an informal discussion about this post please contact Dr Nigel Watson, Chief Executive, via Jan Baker, telephone: 023 8025 3874.

If you are interested in applying can you please, in the first instance, confirm your expression of interest in writing together with a CV and address this to: Dr Nigel Watson, Chief Executive, Wessex LMCs Ltd, Churchill House, 122-124 Hursley Road, Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO53 1JB. Telephone: 02380 253874 or email: nigel.watson@wessexlmcs.org.uk

The closing date for applications: 7th December 2012.

Interviews will take place on: 10th January 2013.

Wessex LMCs represents approximately. 3,000 GPs/446 Practices in Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Jersey and Guernsey currently working with 3 clustered PCTs and 2 Strategic Health Authorities.

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