Divisional Director for Urgent and Emergency Care
Divisional Director - Urgent & Emergency Care
Interviews will be held on Friday 13 February 2026
Are you passionate about high quality, responsive and modern urgent and emergency care services? This is an exciting opportunity to lead a division that plays a critical role in patient flow and care quality across our organisation and wider health and care system. The Divisional Director role is a pivotal point of leadership in shaping services and inspiring teams, to deliver care that makes a real difference to patients and communities.
What You\'ll Do
* Provide strategic and operational leadership for our Emergency Departments, admission avoidance initiatives, and integrated frailty services.
* Drive collaboration with Place partners to deliver seamless care across health and social care systems. This will include providing leadership and delivery to development of Urgent Care Coordination in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough in partnership with others.
* Creating and maintaining relationships with partner organisations to support innovation in urgent and emergency care, ensuring services are safe, efficient, and patient-focused, and as close to home as possible for our population.
* Work closely with other divisions, executive colleagues, and system partners to deliver integrated models of care.
* Lead the clinical quality - patient safety, clinical effectiveness, patient experience and team health - agenda for UEC Division.
Main duties of the job
About You
* A strong clinical background is essential - you may be a Consultant, GP, senior clinician, or experienced healthcare leader.
* Proven ability to lead complex services and work across organisational boundaries.
* Passionate about improving patient outcomes and delivering high-quality, sustainable care.
* Experience of listening to staff and patients and then acting to deliver improvement.
* An explicit and evidenced commitment to high clinical care and professional standards at all times.
About us
Why Join Us?
* Be part of a forward-thinking leadership team committed to transformation and integration.
* Take forward an ambitious strategy of transformation across our Health and Care Partnership.
* Build on our Culture of Improvement, Quality Improvement and existing per support work in UEC to leverage change that is sustainable, with the support and permission of the Trust Board.
* Benefit from strong support across the executive team and work collaboratively to shape the future of urgent and emergency care.
This is more than a leadership role - it's an opportunity to make a lasting impact on patient care and system integration.
Job responsibilities
As Divisional Director for Urgent & Emergency Care, you will work as part of a triumvirate leadership model, alongside the Divisional Operations Director and Divisional Director of Nursing, to deliver outstanding care across our Emergency Department and integrated urgent care pathways. The Trust\'s Clinical Strategy commits us to working with partners to develop more community-based specialist pathways such as a Virtual Hospital at Home and neighbourhood urgent care models, aligning with primary care and community services for more patient-centred and personalised care. We are an improvement-focused organisation and in UEC there is real benefit to be gained for staff and patients from improving flow and experience, eliminating corridor care through relationships with other divisions, working with non-hospital-based teams, and reviewing our internal operating model across the week and across sites, to improve access.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Consultant, GP, senior clinician, or experienced healthcare leader with a clinical practice
* Additional Postgraduate Management or Service qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
* Demonstrable track record of achievement as a very senior clinical leader in an acute trust setting
* A track record of applying a collaborative approach to implementing changes
* Evidence of having led a major service improvement, including successful clinical leadership of change
* Strong, deep understanding of the challenges facing the NHS and the Trust over the next 10 years
* Strong, deep understanding of the strategic, political and operational dimensions and challenges of the role
Skills and Aptitudes
* Strong evidence of sensitivity to the needs and expectations of patients
* Strong evidence of the ability to lead and motivate Consultant, managerial and other senior health professional colleagues and staff from other disciplines at all levels
* Strong evidence of the ability to communicate and collaborate at HMC and executive level in an acute trust
* Strong evidence of the ability and desire to innovate and drive service change and improvement - focusing on both quality and productivity - including evidence that they set a very positive example in terms of quality and productivity in their own practice
* Strong evidence of the ability and commitment to manage resources effectively
* Highly analytical and numerate so as to be able to evaluate and use the complex information relating to the Clinical Division and its functions
* Evidence of the ability to think and act strategically at a level appropriate for Divisional senior leadership and to Hospital Management Committee membership
* Strong evidence of clinical and operational leadership skills at a level appropriate to the scale and challenge of the post
* Evidence of the ability to develop effective problem-solving alliances and partnerships
* Personally committed to the Trust\'s Mission and Values
* Personally committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity
* Ability to work in a challenging environment and meet demanding deadlines
Personal and Organisational Skills
* Effective team player with an open and transparent style
* No blame approach
* Reflective and with a high level of self-awareness
* Able to influence senior clinical and other colleagues, enlisting support for change
Strategic management
* Evidence of track record re initiating, developing, communicating and mobilising clinical leadership of change
* Evidence of effective clinical and operational engagement with others to drive forward change at scale
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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