Deputy Clinical Director South West Burns Clinical NetworkNHS

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:

• 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.

Job description

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About us

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.