Job summary
Employer heading
Chief Paramedic Officer
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
Our work environment is demanding, high intensity and rewarding in equal measure and spans four Integrated Care Systems requiring a high degree of resilience and a commitment to collaborative working both within and outside the Trust.
As Chief Paramedic Officer you will provide expert leadership, professional advice, strategic clinical advice, and advocacy in consideration of matters regarding quality and safety matters relating to paramedicine.
A vital focus for the role will be the delivery of a positive culture across the Trust underpinned by our values.
Working with your Chief Medical Officer and Director of Quality and Nursing colleagues, you will lead professional standards across the Trust and ensure paramedics, ambulance clinicians, AHPs and our managers and people have access to world-class training, education, and professional development.
As executive director responsible for Trust wide education and organisational learning you will define and embed our vision for excellence and evidence-based learning across all staff and leadership groups for training and education.
NOTE: the Trust is in a period of transition and has an ambition to establish clinical leadership for its delivery functions. As Chief Paramedic Officer you will champion and take an active leadership role in this future model.
Main duties of the job
Key Outputs and deliverables in your first 12 months
- Clinical and leadership education strategy
- Review and redesign the function Operating Model to establish and embed the work of the Directorate at the heart of the organsiation
- Working with executive colleagues set out a roadmap for the Trust’s sustainable culture transformation programme and deliverables role-modelling collaborative and inclusive ways of working
Please review the candidate application pack and job description for further information.
Working for our organisation
- NHS employees will be eligible to join the NHS Pension Scheme
- A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing with service.
- Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
- Childcare voucher scheme.
- Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
- Access to our award-winning Wellbeing services
- Access to occupational health and counselling services.
- Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What you’ll bring as essential
- Registered Paramedic professional
- Master’s Degree
- Significant post registration experience and evidence of continuous professional development
- Robust understanding of the operation of a unitary Board with significant exposure to Board and sub-committee working
- Demonstrable experience as a senior leader delivery change and transition whilst maintaining high clinical and operational safety and standards
- A track record of direct responsibility for budgets and teams, adept at delivering high quality services whilst balancing service and financial pressures
- Experience of developing the services of an organisation to deliver long-term sustainable and customer focused provision
- Strong educational skills and an understanding of educational policy and research and deep understanding on how to effectively train, educate and effectively evaluate educational initiatives
- A supportive, nurturing, and facilitative approach to the portfolio that allows others to come forward and succeed
Person specification
Qualifications/Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Paramedic professional and substantial demonstrable relevant professional experience
- Masters degree
- Significant post-registration experience and evidence of continuous professional development
- Demonstrable experience as a senior leader delivery change and transiting whilst maintaining high clinical and operational safety and standards.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of developing the services of an organisation to deliver long-term sustainable and customer-focused provision.
- Strong educational skills and an understanding of educational policy and research and deep understanding of how to train, educate and evaluate educational initiatives effectively.
- A supportive, nurturing, and facilitative approach to the portfolio that allows to come forward and succeed.
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Finn McNulty
- Job title
- Recruitment Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07966 006091
- Additional information
Applications should be made by submitting a full and up to date CV, with a covering letter of no more than two sides of A4.
Your supporting statement should give evidence of how you meet the requirements of the person specification relating to the role.
Along with your application please include:
- Contact details for up to four referees (who will not be contacted without your permission)
- A contact email address and telephone number
- A completed Diversity Monitoring Form
- A completed Fit and Proper Persons Monitoring Form
Please send completed applications to [email protected]. All applications will be acknowledged.
Hunter Healthcare are working with SECAmb to recruit to this new position.
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