Deputy Clinical Director

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

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:

  1. Develop and grow your leadership skills with strong support
  2. Work with burns experts regionally and nationally
  3. Shape and improve care for a complex, diverse patient group
  4. 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

HS 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 North Bristol NHS 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.

Person Specification

Education/Training/Qualifications

Essential

  • 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

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

Work Experience

Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  • Knowledge of service improvement tools

Personal Qualites/Special Circumstances

Essential

  • Commitment to high standards of care and patient patient outcomes
  • 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)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 3 August 2026

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