Clinical Director in Emergency Medicine

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Job overview

Job Title: Clinical Director – Emergency Medicine
Location: Whipps Cross University Hospital
Organisation: Barts Health NHS Trust
Contract Type: Fixed-Term – 3 Years
Salary: Consultant Pay Scale + £10,000 Responsibility Allowance
Working Pattern: Part-Time (2 Programmed Activities per week)

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a dynamic and experienced Consultant to take on the leadership role of Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine at Whipps Cross University Hospital. This fixed-term appointment (3 years) is offered alongside existing clinical commitments and includes 2 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week, plus a £10,000 annual responsibility allowance.
This is a pivotal opportunity for a current or aspiring clinical leader to shape the future of emergency care, driving improvements in quality, safety, and performance across a busy and vital department.

Main duties of the job

As Clinical Director, you will work in partnership with the Associate Director of Nursing and General Manager as part of a triumvirate leadership team. You will be responsible for:
Providing strategic and clinical leadership for Emergency Services
Ensuring delivery of high-quality, safe, and patient-centred care
Driving performance across key metrics including flow, safety, workforce, and patient experience
Leading service transformation and improvement initiatives
Aligning departmental priorities with divisional and Trust-wide strategies

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As Clinical Director, you will work in partnership with the Associate Director of Nursing and General Manager as part of a triumvirate leadership team. You will be responsible for:
Providing strategic and clinical leadership for Emergency Services
Ensuring delivery of high-quality, safe, and patient-centred care
Driving performance across key metrics including flow, safety, workforce, and patient experience
Leading service transformation and improvement initiatives
Aligning departmental priorities with divisional and Trust-wide strategies

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

  • Works at a senior clinical level (Band 8c or above for non-medical staff)
  • Significant experience of leadership and management
  • Experience of clinical governance and of the measures to ensure patient safety
  • Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction

    • Desirable criteria

  • A record of partnership working
  • Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction
  • Prior experience in a clinical leadership role (e.g. clinical lead, network lead)

    • Skills

    Essential criteria

  • Demonstrable leadership skills
  • Able to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear vision and sense of direction
  • Ability to define and implement policy development at directorate level
  • Communication skills, verbal and written Interpersonal skills, able to influence and motivate
  • Able to lead continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies with a multidisciplinary team.

    • Knowledge

    Essential criteria

  • A good understanding of the current context of health and social care, and of clinical learning and research
  • A good understanding of the specific issues in East London
  • A broad understanding of the systems for primary care, social care and commissioning
  • Knowledge of the Trust priorities

    • Qualifications

    Essential criteria

  • Relevant GMC/NMC registration
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

    • Desirable criteria

  • Management qualification
  • Postgraduate qualification

    • Other – Attitudes and Values

    Essential criteria

  • Understands and supports the vision and values of the Trust
  • Acts as a role model for senior as well as more junior colleagues
  • Team player, able to develop a culture that values colleagues and enables them to engage in problem solving and decision making
  • Provides a role model for clinical leaders
  • Motivated for the role
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    Location:
    London
    Job Type:
    PartTime