Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 335-A-1747
- Employer
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Horizon Place, Nottingham
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £100,000 - £200,000 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/05/2025
Employer heading

Clinical Director
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
Clinical Director
East Midlands Ambulance Service
VSM Pay Framework Ambulance Trusts
Salary Range is between £131,726 and £154,438 per annum (FTE)
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) has an exciting opportunity for an individual looking to work in a senior leadership role in urgent and emergency care. We are looking for an individual from a medical or paramedic background who is dedicated to delivering the highest standards of clinical excellence.
Main duties of the job
The Opportunity
Building on the strong foundation left by our outgoing Medical Director, Dr Nic Atkinson, this appointment of a new Clinical Director is a significant opportunity to play a central leadership role on our Board and to help shape the future of emergency and urgent care service delivery for a large population.
We are seeking an individual with exceptional clinical leadership qualities as well as passion and commitment to delivering first class services in collaboration with a range of partners. Proven strategic capabilities, expertise in clinical governance and patient safety, an ability to operate in a regulated, multi-stakeholder landscape and the capability to inspire an inclusive, clinically-empowered culture is important. Also essential will be a commitment to the work of the ambulance service and a strong alignment to our core values.
Working for our organisation
EMAS provides emergency and urgent services for 4.8 million people, covering approximately 6,452 square miles across six counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. Employing c4,700 people across 70 locations, we receive around 2,500 calls from members of the public who rang 999 every day.
EMAS has worked hard to develop a positive reputation as a highly effective care provider having been rated as “Outstanding” for caring and “Good” overall at its last full CQC inspection, with strong quality outcomes, well-developed relations with our partners and importantly a strong focus on staff and patient engagement.
We have an ambitious vision to be ‘Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare’ and in an era of integrated health and care provision we are working closely with partner organisations across the diverse populations we serve to optimise and improve care and outcomes across the whole of the footprint.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Making an application
The closing date for applications is 2 May 2025
The interview date is scheduled for 27 May 2025
If you would like to discuss this opportunity with Richard Henderson, Chief Executive, please contact Katy Gee ([email protected])
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate medical or paramedicine qualifications
- On the Medical Specialist or GP or HCPC Register
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Valid licence to practice
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/Management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 5 years’ senior experience at consultant; or GP; or paramedicine level.
- Experience at deputy/associate/assistant director level, or equivalent, in a relevant healthcare organisation.
- Excellent reputation as a clinician and clinical leader, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of clinical services.
- Experience in building organisational capabilities, including establishing a clear strategic vision and translation into successful outcomes.
- Experience of managing clinical governance.
Desirable criteria
- Previous Medical/Clinical Director or Director of Paramedicine experience.
- Experience of leading a large complex organisation through significant change.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the wider strategic issues affecting the NHS and the Ambulance Sector
- Successful team leadership/motivation of others.
- Innovation and vision, including an ability to build organisational capabilities.
- Financial awareness and business acumen.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Professional credibility and respect at local and regional level.
- Intellectual flexibility, including the ability to understand operational detail and wider strategic vision, and to articulate these to others.
- Political awareness, with the ability to understand the wider interest groups and stake holders within the Trust, and to work sensitively to overcome their differing positions and interests.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of clinical service reconfiguration and related issues.
- Drive for improvement with the proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against targets.
NHS Board Leadership Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to achieve high quality and sustainable outcomes.
- Ability to set strategy and deliver long term transformation.
- Ability to provide robust governance and assurance.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with partners and communities.
- Ability to promote equality and inclusion and reduce health and workforce inequalities.
- Ability to create a compassionate, just and positive culture.
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
- Katy Gee
- Job title
- Senior Administration Suport Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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