National Clinical Lead

We have a fantastic opportunity for a National Clinical Lead to join our team based at Bristol Ambulance HQ.

This is a national role, currently with a primary focus on Bristol Ambulance, with some travel required.

The National Clinical Lead will provide senior clinical leadership across the organisation’s HDU, critical care and frontline ambulance services. The role is responsible for clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement and clinical assurance, ensuring services meet professional, contractual and regulatory standards.

Working closely with the Quality and Patient Safety Director and Senior Leadership Team, the National Clinical Lead will oversee clinical practice, competence, clinical audit, medicines governance, PCR auditing, policies and SOPs, and organisational learning.

You will take the lead on identifying and managing clinical risks, investigating incidents and concerns, monitoring standards of care and ensuring learning is translated into meaningful improvements.

You will also provide clinical and contract oversight of the SWAST frontline framework, ensuring required clinical, operational, workforce and governance standards are maintained.

This role has a key responsibility for CQC and regulatory compliance, supporting inspection readiness and ensuring appropriate clinical assurance and evidence are in place.

Overall, the National Clinical Lead will bring together clinical leadership, patient safety, quality, audit and assurance, providing clear accountability for clinical standards across the organisation.

• Life Assurance – providing colleagues and their family financial peace of mind and protection to the value of £5,000.
• Company sick pay covering full salary for 20 days after 2 years’ service.
• 24/7 online/telephone GP Consultation and access to prescriptions.
• 2nd opinion medical support following diagnosis or where a colleague is on a treatment pathway.
• Hospital cash plan benefits with sickness protection scheme.
• Cash-plan benefits, providing colleagues the option of protecting themselves in case of illness and recuperation, including dental, optical, chiropody.
• Access to mental health consultations.
• Access to physiotherapy consultations.
• Access to legal advice on domestic issues e.g. motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury.
• Financial guidance re retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits.
• Long Service Recognition Scheme – recognising colleagues for their continued service after 5 years and at 5-year intervals with an increase in annual leave.
• Values-based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward, which will lead to an annual recognition event.
• Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards.
• The EMED foundation, to provide support to colleagues and our local communities.
• Pension Scheme.
• Blue Light Card.
• Uniform provided.
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) to support a range of health and wellbeing requirements.
• Flu vaccination (through an internal campaign in Autumn/Winter).

• Provide clinical leadership across frontline ambulance, critical care and HDU services.
• Act as the main clinical adviser to the Senior Leadership Team.
• Oversee clinical standards, competence and quality of patient care.
• Provide clinical advice and challenge where patient safety may be affected.
• Support the introduction of new clinical practices, equipment and medicines.
• Escalate significant clinical and patient-safety concerns.

• Lead patient safety and clinical governance across clinical services.
• Oversee incidents, complaints, investigations and clinical risks.
• Identify trends and ensure learning leads to improvements.
• Develop and monitor clinical improvement plans.
• Promote a…