Job Description
NHS 24 has an exciting opportunity for an experienced medical leader to provide professional clinical leadership and expertise in urgent and emergency care to the full range of our services. This will require strong professional leadership along with excellent collaboration skills to support the development and implementation of safe and effective clinical models and new ways of working with health and social care across Scotland. Responsibilities will include urgent and emergency care, liaison with territorial and other national Health Boards, digital health care and supporting a dynamic response to major incidents.
- Do you have significant experience in delivering emergency medicine services?
- Can you demonstrate an understanding of the health and social care landscape with strategic insight to the delivery of urgent and emergency care.
- Are you a strong leader, with influencing and change management skills and a track record of leading teams in collaboration with different disciplines and organisations?
Who We Are
NHS 24 is a National Health Board established to provide a national 24-hour service providing clinical assessment and referral, health advice and information by telephone to the people of Scotland through a network of contact centres and digitally through NHS Inform, NHS 24 online and other channels. NHS 24 plays a key role within the NHS system, acting as a customer/patient gateway to the NHS in Scotland. It also supports and facilities the development of other digitally enabled services on an ongoing basis recognising the changing health and care needs of the people of Scotland.
Where We Are:
We have six regional centres Aberdeen, Dundee, South Queensferry, Hillington, Cardonald and Clydebank. NHS 24 supports hybrid working, and this post can be based within any NHS 24 regional centres. The successful candidate must be within commuting distance to a regional centre to attend if required and must also be able to travel to other regional centres when requested to attend meetings, undertake training and any other activities.
The Role
As NHS 24 is a national organisation there is an expectation that the post holder will work across Scotland when required. Aspects of the role can be delivered remotely; others may require travel across Scotland. A significant part of the role is to work closely with senior staff across NHS 24 and beyond while consistently demonstrating the NHS values.
Key Responsibilities:
- Clinical leadership and expertise to the NHS 24 111 service, Scheduled Care & Digitally delivered services delivered across 24 hours
- Influence the development and implementation of safe and effective clinical models and new ways of working with health and social care across Scotland. This will include undertaking Tactical Command roles during a response.
- Medical expertise across the spectrum of clinical care underpinned by a broad and in depth knowledge of primary care, and health and social care at the interface of community and hospital care
- Current medical expertise interfacing with lead clinicians and stakeholders across Scotland, in health and social care settings.
- Medical expertise to support the governance of clinical content that will be used across all NHS 24 clinical services and channels. This will involve shaping and delivering the vision for digitally supported medical services and clinical decision support throughout the whole patient pathway and promoting the role NHS 24 could play.
- Digital knowledge to support development and delivery of NHS 24 input to the health and social care delivery strategy
- Support for the development of learning across the skillsets, bringing expertise in decision -making skills for clinical and non- clinical colleagues.
- To promote innovation and champion the development of a data enabled culture that drives continuous improvement across NHS 24.
- To provide expert clinical oversight to the design and development of digitally-enabled change programme strategies, plans and activity.
There is a Medical on Call rota and the successful candidate will take part. This is done remotely.
The role is advertised for 32 hours (8 sessions) per week but this is negotiable and can be discussed with the hiring manager.
The successful candidate will have;
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (FRCEM) or equivalent
- Current registration with GMC including the specialist register for Emergency Medicine
- Significant experience in delivering emergency medicine services
- Understanding of the health and social care landscape with understanding of current and strategic insight in assessment of urgency and venue of care
- Strong leadership, influencing and change management skills, with a track record of leading people and teams in collaboration with different disciplines and organisations and bringing them together to pursue a common goal (e.g., healthcare professionals, academia, third sector, local authorities etc.)
- Experience in major health informatics intervention (such as deployment of an Electronic Patient Record system) to improve care quality within the last three years
- Experience in clinical planning and response to of major incidents
- Experience in delivery of written papers and proposals at Executive Management Team and Board Level
- Demonstrable achievement in a clinical leadership or management role in a relevant health or social care environment
NHS 24 is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in theDisability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.
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