South West Burns Clinical Network Deputy Clinical Director

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Job Overview

The South West Burns Clinical Network ensures that everyone with a burn injury receives high‑quality, equitable care wherever they live. We:

• Improve outcomes, safety and patient experience
• Support seamless care pathways across the region
• Respond to local and major incidents
• Strengthen the long‑term sustainability and resilience of burns services
  
  

You will contribute to our seven key functions: service planning, resource stewardship, workforce development, quality improvement, collaboration, service transformation and population health.

Your work will influence improvements across the whole burns pathway - from prevention and first contact through specialist burn care, rehabilitation and long‑term recovery.

You will work closely with our small, dynamic team, including the Network Clinical Director, Network Manager, Network Lead Nurse and Network Allied Health Professional and Quality Improvement Lead.

We are a collaborative, supportive and purpose‑driven team who value each other’s expertise and enjoy solving problems together. Your ideas and initiative will be welcomed.

This Role Is Ideal If You Want To

• Develop and grow your leadership skills with strong support
• Work with burns experts regionally and nationally
• Shape and improve care for a complex, diverse patient group
• Contribute to innovation, transformation and quality improvement
  
  

You will have real opportunities to influence system‑wide change and develop your strategic experience within a positive, encouraging team.

Main duties of the job

NHS England SW Clinical Networks exist to improve clinical care across the region within their scope of practice. The South West Burns Clinical Network (SWBCN) is hosted by Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and encompasses five designated specialised burn services across five hospitals in the South West of England and South/Mid Wales.

The SWBCN Deputy Clinical Director position is a new role within the Network Management Team. Once appointed you will play a key supportive leadership role, working closely with, and when required deputising for, the Network Clinical Director. The post holder will help to steer the strategic direction of the Network, particularly during times of operational pressure, service demand, or major incident response. In particular, you will provide clinical governance leadership and performance monitoring (peer review) of services within the Network, ensuring consistent, safe and high quality burn care is aligned to national standards, including the NHS Burns Clinical Network Specification (2023) and British Burn Association (BBA) National Standards for Provision of Adult and Paediatric Burn Care (2023)

This role will support the delivery of an annual Network work programme, promoting multidisciplinary involvement, driving quality improvement, and fostering collaborative working across the Network’s provider organisations.

Working for our organisation

This role requires close working with the Network Clinical Director, Network Manager, Network Lead Nurse and Network Allied Health Professional and Quality Improvement Lead. In addition, you will liaise and collaborate with Burn Service Clinical Leads, members of the multidisciplinary burn workforce and commissioners to ensure the smooth, resilient and effective running of the Network.

We are a collaborative, supportive and purpose‑driven team who value each other’s expertise and enjoy solving problems together. Your ideas and initiative will be welcomed.

You’ll have real opportunities to influence system‑wide change and develop your strategic experience within a positive, encouraging team.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please review further details about the role and responsibilities can be on the attached job description.

For any questions, please contact the named hiring manager.

Person specification

Education/Training/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Medical Practitioner with current GMC specialist registration
• Educated to degree level in a clinical or scientific discipline
• Specialist training in relevant area
• Evidence of continuing professional development
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Leadership or Management training/qualification
• Higher degree MD or PhD
  
  

Work Experience

Essential criteria

• Working as a Consultant within a specialist burn service
• Experienced clinician with credibility with clinical and non-clinical professionals
• Experience in senior leadership
• Experience in leading clinical governance, audit, M&M reviews and peer review
• Experience of partnership working and collaboration
  
  

Knowledge /Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of NHS Clinical Networks
• Knowledge of Network governance, quality assurance and risk management
• Knowledge of Network commissioning processes
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to analyse complex data and information
• Ability to deputise effectively
• Knowledge of National and Regional Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Frameworks related to burns
• Knowledge of National Burns Critical Care Surge and Escalation SOP
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of service improvement tools
  
  

Personal Qualites/Special Circumstances

Essential criteria

• Commitment to high standards of care and patient patient outcomes

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• Self-motivated; able to prioritise
• Strong role model and leading by example
• Positive and proactive approach to problem solving
• Ability to work under pressure and constructively challenge
• Ability to act impartially, putting Network wide interests above those of own service when addressing issues or making decisions
• Must be flexible to travel (regionally and nationally)
• Must not be the Clinical or Service Lead for the Burn Service in which you work (if successful in obtaining this post)
  
  

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

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