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Job overview
Join a pioneering service that is transforming hospital care, delivering care closer to home, and making a real difference to patients’ lives, all while remaining integrated within the acute hospital environment.
Main duties of the job
Main duties:
1. Provide visible, inspirational, and collaborative leadership to drive service implementation, innovation, and continuous improvement.
2. Champion high-quality, safe, and compassionate patient care, promoting best practice across the service.
3. Act as a senior Trust representative, supporting multidisciplinary teams and fostering collaboration across acute, community, and primary care.
4. Advocate for service integration within the acute hospital and across the wider BNSSG system.
5. Manage resources effectively and contribute to clinical governance, quality assurance, and change management initiatives.
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Current professional registration
7. Able to demonstrate successful change management
8. Able to show clinical leadership such as ward manager, team leader etc
9. Full current driving licience
Desirable criteria
10. Experience of community working
11. Experience of discharge processes
12. Experience of acute care
13. Experience of collaborative working such as multi team or multi trust groups
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
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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.
Application numbers
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