Job summary
The Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS)/ Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) Partnership is a unique partnership between the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance jointly providing Helicopter Emergency Medical Services to the population of Yorkshire and beyond.
The YAA Medical Director will be funded by the YAA and hosted by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust with professional accountability to the YAS Medical Director.
Main duties of the job
They will be a senior clinical leader within the Yorkshire Air Ambulance developing and leading a clinical structure within the teams. The YAA Medical Director will be accountable for patient safety and clinical quality provided by the HEMS teams and leading the strategy for innovation and development.
The YAA Medical Director will work across YAA and YAS directorates in a matrix system, and externally with key partners to contribute and influence the clinical and operational strategy, develop workforce models and ensure excellent patient outcomes. The post holder will be a subject expert in pre-hospital critical and enhanced care, acting as a strategic advisor and supporting advancing clinical practice. The role will include clinical shifts to be arranged as additional duties.
About us
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 5,800 staff, who together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our values: Compassion, One Team, Integrity, Innovation, Empowerment, Resilience are at the heart of all we do.
YAA is a successful, regional charity whose mission is 'to provide, develop and deliver with integrity, transparency and pride, state of the art emergency response air ambulances for the protection of human life across Yorkshire and its environs.'
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the job and personal requirements.
This role is a maximum of 22.5 hours over 3 days, flexible working. It will encompass two days of working at Nostell Air Support Unit and then another day per week on a clinical shift in our helicopter.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the job and personal requirements.
This role is a maximum of 22.5 hours over 3 days, flexible working. It will encompass two days of working at Nostell Air Support Unit and then another day per week on a clinical shift in our helicopter.
Person Specification
Skills/Competencies
Essential
- Registered medical practitioner with extensive pre-hospital experience
- Ability to analyse complex or conflicting facts, priorities or situations to inform judgements
- Can motivate and inspire others.
- Is credible to internal and external stakeholders, with ability to communicate complex, sensitive or conflicting information.
- Ability to create and interpret new knowledge through original research or other advanced scholarship
- Ability to conceptualise, design and implement a project for the generation of new knowledge, applications or understanding at the forefront of the discipline
- Ability to shape and lead on multi-professional clinical development and capable of monitoring their progress and outcomes.
- Ability to analyse and interpret evidence to support the development of policy and practice
- Ability to assess risks, anticipate difficulties and successfully address them.
- Highly developed physical care skills including use of specialised clinical equipment.
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across departments to achieve common goals.
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential
- Fellow Immediate Medical Care or working towards
- Evidence of on-going personal development and specialist training.
- Extensive knowledge within the field of pre-hospital urgent and emergency care
- Understanding of approaches to continuous Quality Improvement
- Current general knowledge of the national NHS context and challenges, particularly those in relation to the ambulance service.
Desirable
- Personal interest and expert knowledge of a specific area of practice within the broader field of urgent and emergency care
- Understanding of applicable techniques for research and advanced academic enquiry.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of implementing change
- Experience of influencing improved clinical practice
- Registered medical practitioner with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience within the field of Pre-hospital Emergency Care
- Working under pressure, demonstrating resilience, confidence and self-belief in these situations
- Experience of leading highly complex and contentious quality improvement/clinical change and digital transformation at significant scale.
- Experience in a clinical leadership role at Network, CCG level or equivalent, with demonstrable outcomes.
- Experience of engaging multiple stakeholders and working across organisational boundaries in complex systems
- Evidence of experience of participation in, or oversight of clinical audit and research programmes.
- Meeting tough deadlines and managing conflicting priorities
- Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with patients, families, or carers and/or with wider advocating agencies.
- Experience of managing relationships with the media and political stakeholders.
Personal/Other
Essential
- Ability to operate at a strategic level to deliver a high quality programme.
- Able to challenge across professional and organisational boundaries
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Able to be flexible - across geographical areas and work hours
Person Specification
Skills/Competencies
Essential
- Registered medical practitioner with extensive pre-hospital experience
- Ability to analyse complex or conflicting facts, priorities or situations to inform judgements
- Can motivate and inspire others.
- Is credible to internal and external stakeholders, with ability to communicate complex, sensitive or conflicting information.
- Ability to create and interpret new knowledge through original research or other advanced scholarship
- Ability to conceptualise, design and implement a project for the generation of new knowledge, applications or understanding at the forefront of the discipline
- Ability to shape and lead on multi-professional clinical development and capable of monitoring their progress and outcomes.
- Ability to analyse and interpret evidence to support the development of policy and practice
- Ability to assess risks, anticipate difficulties and successfully address them.
- Highly developed physical care skills including use of specialised clinical equipment.
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across departments to achieve common goals.
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential
- Fellow Immediate Medical Care or working towards
- Evidence of on-going personal development and specialist training.
- Extensive knowledge within the field of pre-hospital urgent and emergency care
- Understanding of approaches to continuous Quality Improvement
- Current general knowledge of the national NHS context and challenges, particularly those in relation to the ambulance service.
Desirable
- Personal interest and expert knowledge of a specific area of practice within the broader field of urgent and emergency care
- Understanding of applicable techniques for research and advanced academic enquiry.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of implementing change
- Experience of influencing improved clinical practice
- Registered medical practitioner with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience within the field of Pre-hospital Emergency Care
- Working under pressure, demonstrating resilience, confidence and self-belief in these situations
- Experience of leading highly complex and contentious quality improvement/clinical change and digital transformation at significant scale.
- Experience in a clinical leadership role at Network, CCG level or equivalent, with demonstrable outcomes.
- Experience of engaging multiple stakeholders and working across organisational boundaries in complex systems
- Evidence of experience of participation in, or oversight of clinical audit and research programmes.
- Meeting tough deadlines and managing conflicting priorities
- Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with patients, families, or carers and/or with wider advocating agencies.
- Experience of managing relationships with the media and political stakeholders.
Personal/Other
Essential
- Ability to operate at a strategic level to deliver a high quality programme.
- Able to challenge across professional and organisational boundaries
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Able to be flexible - across geographical areas and work hours
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
