Assistant Chief Medical Officer

Main area Assistant Chief Medical Officer Grade adhoc Contract Secondment: 12 months Hours Part time - 16 hours per week (flexible to meet demand) Job ref 278-ACMO-0325-CC

Employer South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site South East Coast Ambulance Town Gatwick Salary £105,504 - £139,882 Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/04/2025 23:59

Assistant Chief Medical Officer

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South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.

Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Chief Medical Officer to join our team on a 12 month secondment/fixed term contract to help us in implementing our Trust strategy that puts our clinicians at the heart of the service.

Please note this is a part time role offering 16 hours.

The successful candidate will display natural leadership, drive and determination and will have successfully delivered a complex portfolio. They will display outstanding communication, negotiating and influencing skills that will support clinical and non-clinical staff to the models of care that our patients and staff need. They will be passionate about patient safety and quality and will be committed to service improvement.

The ideal candidate will have exemplary track records as clinical leader and manager, with the proven ability to inspire, motivate and promote teamwork at all levels across the medical and non-medical workforce driving up standards of clinical quality and safety.

You should have pre-hospital care experience, be on a specialist or GP register with a minimum of five years’ experience, reflecting the utmost importance that we attach to the quality of care and experience that each patient receives. We are an ambitious service keen to implement the highest standards of urgent and emergency care across South East Coast.

Main duties of the job

The core responsibilities for this role are:

• To provide strong clinical leadership at all levels throughout the Trust.
• To participate in establishing systems throughout the Service, to provide safe and reliable care for its patients.
• To support the delivery of appropriate standards of clinical care in emergency, urgent and care settings.
• To participate in systems to monitor the delivery of clinical care across all areas of Trust activity. To ensure the safe and integrated care or treatment for patients across both health and social care systems.
• To contribute to the development and implementation of alternative models of clinical care/pathways to meet the diverse needs of patients.

Working for our organisation

• Option to join NHS pension scheme
• A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
• Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
• Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
• Access to occupational health and counselling services.
• Back up buddy App
• Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• In conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer, to provide clear and direct clinical advice to all areas of the South East Coast Ambulance Service regarding clinical standards, appropriate treatment regimes and its statutory duties with regard to clinical care.
• Support and advise staff on clinical care issues and the resolution of clinical problems and questions that arise following the provision of care, with escalation to the Chief Medical Officer according to Trust policy.
• To participate in the dissemination of clinical advice and direction given from bodies such as NICE or JRCALC (as examples) and ensure local implementation.
• Advise on and contribute to the development of new models of service delivery, which increase efficiency and lead to better health outcomes for patients, in line with current Department of Health recommendations and Trust plans.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner with a minimum of 5 years’ experience. Appropriate higher qualification (FIMC, FRCA, MRCGP, FRCEM, FRCS*)

Experience

• Evidence of recent on–going personal development action, as well as activity.
• Evidence of significant clinical experience in a hospital, ambulance service or primary care environment alongside relevant pre-hospital experience.
• Evidence of supporting decision making from low acuity cases through to more complex critical cases.
• Evidence of experience of participation in, or oversight of, clinical audit and research programmes.

Knowledge

• Has current general knowledge of the national NHS context, particularly those in relation to the ambulance service.
• Has knowledge of the challenges facing health and social care.

Skills

• Can evidence innovative and change management thinking ability.
• Has good analytic and critical reasoning skills and capable of effective problem solving.
• Ability to lead on clinical development and capable of monitoring their progress and outcomes.
• Ability to discuss evidence-based medicine.
• Evidence of well-developed communication skills, both verbal and written.

Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.

Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.

Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.

In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.

Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.

The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.

The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable.

We are committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.

When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.

The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.

Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact recruitment@secamb.nhs.uk stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.

When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.

Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.

Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.

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If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicated Section 2 page on The Zone.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.