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National Clinical Lead for Emergency Care Provision (Ref: 213365)
Healthcare Staffing Programme, Nursing and Systems Improvement Directorate
Commensurate with existing salary
0.2 WTE
Secondment to March 2026
Scotland – hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future. This is a national role, travel throughout Scotland may be required
The Healthcare Staffing Programme is looking for a National Clinical Lead for Emergency Care Provision to join the team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of the Health & Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019.
The Healthcare Staffing Programme (HSP) team are working with Health Boards across Scotland to support improvement in workload and workforce planning in line with Health and Care Staffing legislation. The post holder will work with a range of stakeholders to scope current workforce planning tools and methodologies utilised to inform current emergency services workforce planning. In addition, the post holder will provide expert senior leadership for the development, testing and implementation of the Emergency Care Provision staffing level tool for services across Scotland, considering the need for multi-professional approaches and digital solutions to reduce the data capture burden. The role will provide key clinical leadership and expertise to the Emergency Care Provision Staffing Level Tool development.
The key outcome of this work is to enable workforce decisions that will ensure that at all times, suitably qualified and competent individuals from a range of professional disciplines, are working in such numbers as are appropriate for the health, wellbeing and safety of patients or service users, and the provision of high-quality health care for individuals across Scotland.
We are looking for a National Clinical Lead with strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills as well as expert working knowledge in emergency department services workload and workforce planning. The post holder must have an ability to devise, implement and monitor a range of engagement strategies to ensure multi-professionals and various Professional Bodies across Scotland are actively engaged to support the work of the Emergency Care Provision tool development.
For an informal discussion about this post please contact Lisa Clare, Senior Programme Advisor, at 07816 192335 or lisa.clare@nhs.scot.
Closing Date: Thursday 01 May 2025 at midnight
It is anticipated that interviews will be held online using MS Teams on Monday 19 May 2025