Clinical Service Manager

We are seeking an ambitious and experienced operational leader to join our team as Clinical Service Manager for our Unscheduled Care - Care Group on afixed-term basis for two years.

This is a unique opportunity to lead some of the Trust's most high-profile and strategically important services, providing senior operational leadership across the Emergency Department, Acute Medicine, Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) and Virtual Ward.

You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and responsive services, leading improvements in quality, governance, operational performance and patient experience, whilst helping shape the future of urgent and emergency care., As a key member of the Care Group leadership team, you will share responsibility for the leadership and development of operational services across the portfolio, ensuring patients receive the highest standards of care and that services are safe, sustainable and continuously improving.

This role combines operational leadership with strategic influence and offers the opportunity to lead significant service improvement, workforce and transformation programmes at a time of considerable change within the Trust and across Dorset.

At DCHFT, we pride ourselves on the care we provide for our patients, and on the culture, we are creating for our staff. We work hard to create a fair, inclusive environment for our staff.

Our Mission is to provide outstanding care for people in ways which matter to them, and our vision is Dorset County Hospital, working with our health and social care partners, will be at the heart of improving the well-being of our communities.

We are a Trust that celebrates diversity, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from people in all under-represented groups.

We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate's individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.