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Clinical Director for Urgent Care

NHS, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States,


The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The postholder will support the transformation of urgent and emergency care pathways within the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust and wider city of Newcastle. The postholder will oversee the governance, quality and development of primary care services embedded within the Emergency Department, Urgent Treatment Centres and Same Day Emergency Care. The postholder will work in partnership with partners in the trust to provide leadership to Urgent & Emergency Care services as we move to a more integrated model of delivering care. This will include but not be limited to working with clinical leaders and operational managers of Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Acute Paediatrics and Urgent Treatment Centres to ensure patients are seen by the most appropriate service first time, improving access to timely emergency and urgent care and effective utilisation of resources.It is expected that the postholder will provide clinical sessions within the Urgent & Emergency Care system in keeping with their experience and skillset at a minimum of 2 sessions per week.This post is fixed term for 3 years initially.Main duties of the job

Clinical:To manage urgent presentations and ensure that patients are seen and treated by the most appropriate healthcare professional.Manage a clinical caseload of both adults and children.Work closely with Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine including Same Day Emergency Care and Urgent Treatment Centre staff and offer consistent care as an integral part of the team.A degree of flexibility will be required in keeping with the variability and demands of urgent & emergency care.Job responsibilities

Management and Leadership:Work with senior leaders in Urgent & Emergency Care services to transform and manage patient pathways.Specifically working in partnership with the Clinical Director of Urgent & Emergency Care, Heads of Service of the Emergency Department, Acute Medicine and local GP providers of Urgent Care.Work with acute hospital services to develop new hospital pathways to manage patients from urgent primary care.Work with the Clinical Director and Associate Director of Operations responsible for Urgent Community Response and other acute community services to develop responsive and patient-centred pathways.Oversee governance, safety and development of primary care within Urgent & Emergency Care services.Attend appropriate departmental, Board and trust business meetings including Clinical Policy Group alongside other Clinical Directors.Provide visible leadership to promote a fair and supportive culture responsive to the needs of the diversity of our patients, visitors and workforce.Work with external stakeholders across the ICB, region and national networks to improve Urgent & Emergency Care services more widely.To promote Patient and Public Involvement in the design and planning of services.Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

Primary Medical Qualification.CCT in General Practice.Experience in a primary care, ICB or acute provider leadership role.Clinical Experience

Working as a medical practitioner with experience of urgent care.Acute Medicine, Acute Paediatrics or Emergency Medicine experience.Management and Administration Experience

Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Board to the Trust and its workforce.Experience in clinical service development and innovation.Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues.An understanding of Clinical Governance.Understanding of management goals.Teaching

Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.Ability to teach clinical skills.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.Closing Date: 16 September 2024Interview Date: TBC

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