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
1. Works at a senior clinical level (Band 8c or above for non-medical staff)
2. Significant experience of leadership and management
3. Experience of clinical governance and of the measures to ensure patient safety
4. Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction
Desirable criteria
5. A record of partnership working
6. Establishing and sustaining effective strategic direction
7. Prior experience in a clinical leadership role (e.g. clinical lead, network lead)
Skills
Essential criteria
8. Demonstrable leadership skills
9. Able to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear vision and sense of direction
10. Ability to define and implement policy development at directorate level
11. Communication skills, verbal and written Interpersonal skills, able to influence and motivate
12. 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
13. A good understanding of the current context of health and social care, and of clinical learning and research
14. A good understanding of the specific issues in East London
15. A broad understanding of the systems for primary care, social care and commissioning
16. Knowledge of the Trust priorities
Qualifications
Essential criteria
17. Relevant GMC/NMC registration
18. Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
19. Management qualification
20. Postgraduate qualification
Other – Attitudes and Values
Essential criteria
21. Understands and supports the vision and values of the Trust
22. Acts as a role model for senior as well as more junior colleagues
23. Team player, able to develop a culture that values colleagues and enables them to engage in problem solving and decision making
24. Provides a role model for clinical leaders
25. Motivated for the role