South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Team Manager - Dorset

The closing date is 10 June 2025

Job summary

At South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWAST), we're looking for Clinical Team Managers (CTM) to join our station-based operational teams and play a vital role in shaping the future of urgent and emergency care across our communities.

This is your chance to help shape a supportive and inclusive leadership culture that prioritises both our people and our patients. If you're committed to excellence, embrace responsibility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality care, we'd love to hear from you.

You Will Bring:

  • Experience within clinical or ambulance service setting
  • A genuine passion for supporting and leading people, improving patient care, and making a difference through positive change - either as an aspiring or experience leader.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence in engaging colleagues, stakeholders, and external partners
  • A visible and approachable leadership style, thriving in a fast-paced and responsive environment
  • A knowledge of quality improvement, clinical governance, performance metrics, and operational delivery

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide visible, compassionate leadership, supporting and empowering your team to deliver consistently high-quality, safe, and effective patient care.
  • Ensure daily operations consistently meet clinical and operational performance objectives across key metrics
  • Play an active role in the Trust's command provision, delivering strong leadership, to provide an effective response during incidents and ensuring the safety and welfare of team members and patients
  • Support the well-being of station-based teams, ensuring they feel valued, heard, and cared for
  • Work in partnership with education colleagues to drive education, training, clinical appraisal, and development across your team
  • Deliver direct clinical care and provide support, guidance, and post-incident debriefing to your team fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning
  • Lead and manage complaints, team issues, and investigations efficiently and professionally, ensuring resolution and learning
  • As a key member of the Integrated County Clinical Team contribute to and lead local Clinical, Quality and Cultural transformation initiatives, championing innovation and service improvements to meet evolving patient and operational needs.

About us

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, particularly women and other underrepresented groups. Female representation within our operational leadership team is currently much lower than we want it to be and is not currently reflective of the makeup of our operational teams. A representative workplace is important to us culturally and by improving this we will be better placed still torespond to the needs of our local communities our people and our workplace.

To explore the full range of staff benefits we offer, please visit our website.

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Details

Date posted

27 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum (indicative)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

202-7237535

Job locations

Bournemouth

Dorset

BH8 8LE


Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about this role please see attached the job description and person specification attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about this role please see attached the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Paramedic or Registered Nurse Degree or Equivalent
  • Management diploma or evidence of equivalent demonstrable experience
  • Full driving licence including C1 due to role requiring operational command response driving.

Desirable

  • Organisational Development or Innovation qualifications and/or experience
  • Coaching/mentorship/clinical supervision qualification

Previous experience (Paid/ Unpaid relevant to job)

Essential

  • Relevant and evidence of operational experience in leadership

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a management position in public sector, and/or ambulance service.
Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Paramedic or Registered Nurse Degree or Equivalent
  • Management diploma or evidence of equivalent demonstrable experience
  • Full driving licence including C1 due to role requiring operational command response driving.

Desirable

  • Organisational Development or Innovation qualifications and/or experience
  • Coaching/mentorship/clinical supervision qualification

Previous experience (Paid/ Unpaid relevant to job)

Essential

  • Relevant and evidence of operational experience in leadership

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a management position in public sector, and/or ambulance service.

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).

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.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bournemouth

Dorset

BH8 8LE


Employer's website

https://www.swast.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bournemouth

Dorset

BH8 8LE


Employer's website

https://www.swast.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Services Officer

Molly Simmons

molly.simmons@swast.nhs.uk

03003690360

Details

Date posted

27 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum (indicative)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

202-7237535

Job locations

Bournemouth

Dorset

BH8 8LE


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