Job overview
Senior Clinical Site Manager - 8a
We are seeking a Clinical Site Manager to join the Clinical Site Team at St Bartholomew Hospital. The postholder will support the team and wider site operations, ensuring that operational challenges are addressed promptly and effectively to maintain site flow. This role involves working collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders to support safe, efficient, and well‑coordinated service delivery.
This role plays a key part in supporting operational performance, patient flow, and clinical and site leadership teams to deliver high‑quality care.
**Interviews will be held on 14 May 2026**
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work collaboratively to manage site challenges and support services across the hospital on a 24‑hour basis. St Bartholomew’s Hospital is a specialist centre, hosting the London Heart Attack Centre and providing tertiary cancer services for East London and North East Essex. The Trust offers development opportunities through structured appraisal within this specialist role.
You will provide support and advice on the coordination of the hospital site and patient flow, working with the Head of Site Management to oversee 24/7 flow. The Senior Clinical Site Managers will respond to enquiries over email and on the telephone using our WeCare values to deliver a high standard of customer service.
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.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
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. For both documents, please view the attachments.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. •Registered Healthcare Professional
2. •Relevant post specialist qualification
3. •Evidence of management training or skills
4. •Possession of/or evidence of potential of working towards a first degree in Healthcare or management related studies
Desirable criteria
5. •Advanced Life Support Provider or Immediate Life Support Provider
6. •Advanced Physical Assessment Course.
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
7. •Excellent written and verbal communication skills
8. •Well-established leadership and interpersonal skills
9. •Able to liaise with members of the multi-disciplinary team
10. •Able to implement change and to carry out objectives/project work
11. •Ability to teach colleagues and students
12. •Ability to communicate effectively with patients, visitors, relatives, nursing and non-nursing staff, clinical teams, medical staff, directorate, other Trusts, external telephone calls, the police, and the Press relevantly and diplomatically both verbally and in writing
13. •Ability to manage a diverse range of complex clinical and operational situation that involve staff from all levels within an organisation
14. •Ability to think strategically and plan ahead
15. •Ability to represent the Trust in a professional manner
16. •Ability to act as an effective role model for all member of the multi-disciplinary team
17. •Computer literate
18. •To have the knowledge, skills and abilities to deal with the emotionally demanding, stressful or distressing situation involving patients, staff and the public
19. •To have the knowledge, skills and abilities to deal with the emotionally demanding, stressful or distressing situation involving patients, staff and the public
Experience
Essential criteria
20. •Demonstrable post-registration experience as a sister / charge nurse / clinical nurse specialist or equivalent level senior AHP
21. •Experience of supervising and managing junior staff
22. •Clinical experience within the NHS demonstrating evidence based practice
23. •Evidence of local resolution of complaints
Desirable criteria
24. •Evidence of Critical Care / Cardiac or Oncology experience
25. •Experience of Conflict resolution
26. •Change management or service development
27. •Financial management
28. •Awareness or involvement in audit processes
Knowledge
Essential criteria
29. •Excellent clinical knowledge and accompanying skills
30. •Awareness and understanding of the Caldecott Principles
31. •Understanding of NMC Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives [The Code] (2018) and HCPC Standards of conduct, performance and ethics (2024)
32. •Knowledge of current developments in healthcare practice and Government policies
33. •Knowledge/understanding of confidentiality issues
34. •Health and Safety, Risk Management
35. •Infection Control Policy
36. •Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
37. •Mental Health Act as applies to general hospital settings
38. •Deprivation of liberty safeguards and legalities within healthcare settings
Disposition
Essential criteria
39. •Commitment to and application of Equal Opportunities
40. •Highly motivated and able to motivate others
41. •Able to support others
42. •To be assertive as required without being aggressive
43. •To value and respect the contribution of other member of the team to the efficient and effective overall running of the team
44. •Ability to work under pressure and remain calm in stressful situations
45. •Able to act as the patients advocate
46. •Able to accept/respond to constructive criticism
47. •Motivated to personal development
48. •Ability to manage difficult and challenging situations effectively, violence and aggression, verbal and physical abuse, absconding patients, the mentally ill
49. •Willing to undertake further personal development. Aptitude to undertake advance clinical practice
50. •To adapt and respond to change
51. •To be solution focus and response to problems
52. •Confident and able to gain trust in a non-confrontational manner
53. •The ability to work as an autonomous practitioner, without supervision, and as a member of a team
Desirable criteria
54. •Ability to participate in disciplinary procedures
55. •Understanding of the 9 protective characteristics of Equality and Diversity
Other
Essential criteria
56. •Good time keeping record
57. •Able to perform shift work and internal rotation
58. •The ability to manage competing priorities
59. •Commitment to personal CPD and Professional revalidation.
60. •To be committed to and actively implement the Trust’s values
**Visa Sponsorship Information**
Recent changes to UK immigration policy on the Health and Care Visa and Skilled Worker Visa could mean that this role is not eligible for sponsorship or that you may not meet the eligibility criteria.
Sponsorship can only be offered if this post and any individual offered employment meet all the Home Office’s requirements under the UK Skilled Worker visa scheme.
If you are applying from outside the UK or will require sponsorship, please mention this clearly in your application.
To be eligible for sponsorship, the following conditions must be met:
61. Eligible role: The position must be on the UK Skilled Worker visa list. You can check your eligibility here: -.
62. Salary threshold: The role must meet the minimum salary set by the Home Office. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.
63. Skill level: The role must meet the minimum skill requirement of RQF Level 6 or above (graduate level).
64. English language: Applicants must demonstrate English proficiency at CEFR level B2 or higher.
65. Other criteria: Applicants must meet all other criteria as set out by the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI)