Clinical Operational Lead NHS

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The NBT Clinical Operational Lead will provide strategic and operational leadership for the NHS@Home service across BNSSG. This innovative virtual ward model delivers care at home, enabling hospital discharge, reducing admissions, and ensuring patients receive the right care in the right place. Based at NBT, you will champion NHS@Home, ensuring integration across local and system-wide services, and drive the service’s growth and success through strong clinical leadership, change management, and collaboration across NHS@Home teams in NBT, UHBW and Sirona.

Join a pioneering service that is transforming hospital care, delivering care closer to home, and making a real difference to patients’ lives, all while remaining integrated within the acute hospital environment.

• Lead and develop NHS@Home pathways, ensuring alignment with Trust policies, national standards, and system partners.
• Provide visible, inspirational, and collaborative leadership to drive service implementation, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Champion high-quality, safe, and compassionate patient care, promoting best practice across the service.
• Act as a senior Trust representative, supporting multidisciplinary teams and fostering collaboration across acute, community, and primary care.
• Advocate for service integration within the acute hospital and across the wider BNSSG system.
• Manage resources effectively and contribute to clinical governance, quality assurance, and change management initiatives.

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building  are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti‑discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required.

• Current professional registration
• Able to demonstrate successful change management
• Able to show clinical leadership such as ward manager, team leader etc
• Full current driving licence

• Experience of community working
• Experience of discharge processes
• Experience of acute care
• Experience of collaborative working such as multi team or multi trust groups

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