Clinical Director

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Job description

Employer: East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Horizon Place, Nottingham

Town: Nottingham

Salary: £100,000 - £200,000 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 02/05/2025 23:59

Interview date: 27/05/2025

Clinical Director

We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.

The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).

Job overview

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) has an exciting opportunity for an individual looking to work in a senior leadership role in urgent and emergency care. We are looking for an individual from a medical or paramedic background who is dedicated to delivering the highest standards of clinical excellence.

Main duties of the job

Building on the strong foundation left by our outgoing Medical Director, Dr Nic Atkinson, this appointment of a new Clinical Director is a significant opportunity to play a central leadership role on our Board and to help shape the future of emergency and urgent care service delivery for a large population.

We are seeking an individual with exceptional clinical leadership qualities as well as passion and commitment to delivering first class services in collaboration with a range of partners. Proven strategic capabilities, expertise in clinical governance and patient safety, an ability to operate in a regulated, multi-stakeholder landscape and the capability to inspire an inclusive, clinically-empowered culture is important. Also essential will be a commitment to the work of the ambulance service and a strong alignment to our core values.

Working for our organisation

EMAS provides emergency and urgent services for 4.8 million people, covering approximately 6,452 square miles across six counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. Employing c4,700 people across 70 locations, we receive around 2,500 calls from members of the public who rang 999 every day.

EMAS has worked hard to develop a positive reputation as a highly effective care provider having been rated as “Outstanding” for caring and “Good” overall at its last full CQC inspection, with strong quality outcomes, well-developed relations with our partners and importantly a strong focus on staff and patient engagement.

We have an ambitious vision to be ‘Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare’ and in an era of integrated health and care provision we are working closely with partner organisations across the diverse populations we serve to optimise and improve care and outcomes across the whole of the footprint.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Making an application

The closing date for applications is 2 May 2025

The interview date is scheduled for 27 May 2025

If you would like to discuss this opportunity with Richard Henderson, Chief Executive, please contact Katy Gee ([e-mail])

Person specification

Qualifications and Professional Development

• Postgraduate medical or paramedicine qualifications
• On the Medical Specialist or GP or HCPC Register
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Valid licence to practice

Experience

• 5 years’ senior experience at consultant; or GP; or paramedicine level.
• Experience at deputy/associate/assistant director level, or equivalent, in a relevant healthcare organisation.
• Excellent reputation as a clinician and clinical leader, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of clinical services.
• Experience in building organisational capabilities, including establishing a clear strategic vision and translation into successful outcomes.
• Experience of managing clinical governance.
• Previous Medical/Clinical Director or Director of Paramedicine experience.
• Experience of leading a large complex organisation through significant change.

Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding of the wider strategic issues affecting the NHS and the Ambulance Sector
• Successful team leadership/motivation of others.
• Innovation and vision, including an ability to build organisational capabilities.
• Financial awareness and business acumen.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Professional credibility and respect at local and regional level.
• Intellectual flexibility, including the ability to understand operational detail and wider strategic vision, and to articulate these to others.
• Political awareness, with the ability to understand the wider interest groups and stakeholders within the Trust, and to work sensitively to overcome their differing positions and interests.
• Understanding of clinical service reconfiguration and related issues.
• Drive for improvement with the proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against targets.
• Ability to achieve high quality and sustainable outcomes.
• Ability to set strategy and deliver long term transformation.
• Ability to provide robust governance and assurance.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with partners and communities.
• Ability to promote equality and inclusion and reduce health and workforce inequalities.
• Ability to create a compassionate, just and positive culture.

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

Making a Difference

Action Packed Roles

Support and Belonging

Note on Covid-19 Vaccination status:

It is a clear professional responsibility of all health care staff to be vaccinated. EMAS NHS Trust therefore encourages and supports all employees to be vaccinated as it remains the best line of defence against COVID 19.

If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.

Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.

We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.

Our Vision -Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare.

Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.

Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (All spent and unspent convictions must be declared).

If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first month’s salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.