Employer South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bournemouth Town Dorset Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (indicative) Salary period Yearly Closing 15/06/2025 23:59
Clinical Team Manager - Dorset
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
At South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWAST), we’re looking for Clinical Team Manager s (CTM) to join our station-based operational teams and play a vital role in shaping the future of urgent and emergency care across our communities.
This is your chance to help shape a supportive and inclusive leadership culture that prioritises both our people and our patients. If you’re committed to excellence, embrace responsibility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality care, we’d love to hear from you.
You Will Bring:
* Experience within clinical or ambulance service setting
* A genuine passion for supporting and leading people, improving patient care, and making a difference through positive change – either as an aspiring or experience leader.
* Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence in engaging colleagues, stakeholders, and external partners
* A visible and approachable leadership style, thriving in a fast-paced and responsive environment
* A knowledge of quality improvement, clinical governance, performance metrics, and operational delivery
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
* Provide visible, compassionate leadership, support ing and empowering your team to deliver consistently high-quality, safe, and effective patient care.
* Ensure daily operations consistently meet clinical and operational performance objectives across key metrics
* Play an active role in the Trust’s c ommand provision, delivering strong leadership, to provide an effective response during incidents and ensuring the safety and welfare of team members and patients
* Support the well-being of station-based teams, ensuring they feel valued, heard, and cared for
* Work in partnership with education colleagues to drive education, training, clinical appraisal, and development across your team
* Deliver direct clinical care and provide support, guidance, and post-incident debrief ing to your team fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning
* Lead and manage complaints, team issues, and investigations efficiently and professionally, ensuring resolution and learning
* As a key member of the Integrated County Clinical Team contribute to and lead local Clinical, Quality and Cultural transformation initiatives, championing innovation and service improvement s to meet evolving patient and operational needs.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, particularly women and other underrepresented groups. Female representation within our operational leadership team is currently much lower than we want it to be and is not currently reflective of the makeup of our operational teams. A representative workplace is important to us culturally and by improving this we will be better placed still torespond to the needs of our local communities our people and our workplace.
To explore the full range of staff benefits we offer, please visit our website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role please see attached the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* Registered Paramedic or Registered Nurse Degree or Equivalent
* Management diploma or evidence of equivalent demonstrable experience
* Full driving licence including C1 due to role requiring operational command response driving.
* Organisational Development or Innovation qualifications and/or experience
Previous experience (Paid/ Unpaid relevant to job)
* Relevant and evidence of operational experience in leadership
* Experience of working in a management position in public sector, and/or ambulance service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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