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Clinical Lead- UTC | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 04 September 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £76,038 - £114,743 per annum (pro rata)
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 04 October 2025
Location: Colchester, CO4 5JL
Company: Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 7460798/432-MC2740

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Summary


We’re looking for a UTC Clinical Lead to join our multidisciplinary team at the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), co-located with the Emergency Department at Colchester Hospital. The candidate will have experience working in both Primary and Secondary care, ideally within the Emergency Department or specialist interest in Urgent and Emergency Care and have experience in the management of both illness and injury in Adults and Children

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment alongside Paramedics, Nurse Practitioners, ACPs, Nurses, and HCAs.

• To operate within the shared vision and values of the Division, and work collaboratively across and outside of the Trust as appropriate
• To support the development of, and operate within, frameworks and policies as agreed by the Trust
• To work as part of the Clinical Delivery Group (CDG), in close liaison with Clinical Directors, Service Managers and Matrons , providing leadership and advice across the Clinical Delivery Group to contribute to the achievement of national and local objectives
• Ensure the speciality team agree, collect and review appropriate information to measure their clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility.
• Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure, and ensuring that the highest standards are maintained.
• Assist the Clinical Director and Divisional Director to ensure that the service and the workforce are constantly being reviewed to meet new models of care.
• Work in partnership with other local providers of health care across East Suffolk and North Essex to ensure the best service for patients.
• Ensure appropriate lines of communication are established to achieve effective, two-way communication with all medical and other staff within your area.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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• Work collaboratively with the speciality management team in the development of the strategic direction of the speciality, CDG and the Trust through shared objectives
• Accountable for the management of all medical personnel issues in a timely manner in accordance with Trust policies, working closely with HR
• Accountable for ensuring that clinical managers adhere to their own line management responsibilities in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
• To ensure that all relevant medical staff have an approved job plan which complies to the trust’s job planning framework
• Employ a wide range of specialist knowledge and expertise to develop skills of all clinical staff in response to the Trust’s strategic objectives, having maximum impact to enhance patient care


This advert closes on Saturday 4 Oct 2025

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