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Job summary

Main area
Clinical
Grade
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
335-A-1747
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

Employer heading

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust logo

Clinical Director

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

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

Clinical Director

East Midlands Ambulance Service

VSM Pay Framework Ambulance Trusts

Salary Range is between £131,726 and £154,438 per annum (FTE)

 

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

The Opportunity

 

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 ([email protected])

 

Person specification

Qualifications and Professional Development

Essential criteria
  • Postgraduate medical or paramedicine qualifications
  • On the Medical Specialist or GP or HCPC Register
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Valid licence to practice
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership/Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous Medical/Clinical Director or Director of Paramedicine experience.
  • Experience of leading a large complex organisation through significant change.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • 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 stake holders within the Trust, and to work sensitively to overcome their differing positions and interests.
Desirable criteria
  • 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.

NHS Board Leadership Competencies

Essential criteria
  • 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDyslexia Award Logo

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katy Gee
Job title
Senior Administration Suport Officer
Email address
[email protected]
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