Job summary
Divisional Senior Clinical Leader - Northamptonshire
At East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, we are committed to delivering excellent patient care and exploring opportunities for continuous service delivery improvements. As part of our Reshaping Operations programme, a new role of Divisional Senior Clinical Leader was established and an exciting opportunity has become available to join the team in Northamptonshire. The role will be accountable to the Divisional Senior Manager (Quality).
You will be responsible for establishing and embedding a supportive, motivational and compassionate leadership culture across the station based operational teams. This is a key leadership role in supporting EMAS to deliver its vision and values. This role will support the Trust's approach to clinical leadership, quality assurance and quality improvement and identifies priorities in the five domains of quality, aligned with the Care Quality Commission regulatory framework; caring, responsive, effective, well-led and safe.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the direct clinical development, support, supervision and leadership of a team of operational staff. This includes staff in a preceptorship period, university entrants and staff requiring additional support and / or supervision. The DSCL roles will be allocated to defined areas and groups of stations, working closely with Station Managers (SMs) to deliver the clinical and quality metrics and outcomes. The DSCL will be responsible for the clinical elements of the appraisal for clinical staff, working in conjunction with the SM team as part of the station management model.
As an experienced senior clinician, the DSCL will respond operationally whilst supervising and mentoring staff on their performance, behaviour and clinical ability. Assurances of clinical quality and standards will be gained through planned observation shifts with clinical staff.
The DSCL may be called upon to support staff from within their Division or from across the Trust at critical incidents and provide both clinical leadership and additional clinical interventions (based upon scope of practice), as a senior clinician. Operationally the role will work across 7 days with a requirement to work out of hours and weekends to support operational delivery.
About us
You will work as part of a committed team of senior clinical leaders all with the vision of improving quality across the division and supporting all colleagues to develop.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the specific, essential requirements for this role.
If you have any questions about the application process or the role then please contact lee.brentnall@emas.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the specific, essential requirements for this role.
If you have any questions about the application process or the role then please contact lee.brentnall@emas.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current clinical registration (2 years post NQP sign off if applicable)
- Practice educator or mentorship qualification
- Teaching qualification e.g. AET or PTLLS (in place or studying for) or will achieve within 18 months of commencement in role
- Assessment qualification e.g. CAVA or equivalent (in place or currently studying for) or will achieve within 18 months of commencement in role
Experience
Essential
- Relevant and evidence of operational experience in managerial roles
- Evidence of supervising and leading diverse teams of clinical staff
- Experience of working in a leadership position in public sector, and/or ambulance service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current clinical registration (2 years post NQP sign off if applicable)
- Practice educator or mentorship qualification
- Teaching qualification e.g. AET or PTLLS (in place or studying for) or will achieve within 18 months of commencement in role
- Assessment qualification e.g. CAVA or equivalent (in place or currently studying for) or will achieve within 18 months of commencement in role
Experience
Essential
- Relevant and evidence of operational experience in managerial roles
- Evidence of supervising and leading diverse teams of clinical staff
- Experience of working in a leadership position in public sector, and/or ambulance service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
