# ICC Consultant Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/icc-consultant-practitioner/125ab5ab-8aed-4d4e-b746-430d656e200f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/icc-consultant-practitioner/125ab5ab-8aed-4d4e-b746-430d656e200f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust - **Town:** Bolton - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Ambulance and emergency care - **Speciality:** Emergency Medicine - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-29T13:40:31.951Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8046082 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8046082?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nwas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen to join North West Ambulance Service as an ICC Consultant Practitioner (Clinical Lead), a senior clinical leadership role at the heart of urgent and emergency care. Based at any NWAS ICC site, this Band 8C post will provide expert clinical leadership across 999, 111 and patient transport services, helping to shape safe, effective and innovative pathways of care for patients across the North West. ### Main duties of the job We are looking for an experienced, credible and compassionate clinical leader with a strong track record in service improvement, clinical governance and clinical development from a digital perspective. This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic change, work collaboratively across organisational boundaries and make a real difference to patient care at scale. If you are passionate about leading high-quality clinical services and developing the future of integrated contact centre care, we would welcome your application. Assessment Centre: 22.06.2026 (Venue to be confirmed) ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please ensure you read the attached job description and person specification in full before applying. ## Job Details An exciting opportunity has arisen to join North West Ambulance Service as an ICC Consultant Practitioner (Clinical Lead), a senior clinical leadership role at the heart of urgent and emergency care. Based at any NWAS ICC site, this Band 8C post will provide expert clinical leadership across 999, 111 and patient transport services, helping to shape safe, effective and innovative pathways of care for patients across the North West. ## Job Description We are looking for an experienced, credible and compassionate clinical leader with a strong track record in service improvement, clinical governance and clinical development from a digital perspective. This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic change, work collaboratively across organisational boundaries and make a real difference to patient care at scale. If you are passionate about leading high-quality clinical services and developing the future of integrated contact centre care, we would welcome your application. Assessment Centre: 22.06.2026 (Venue to be confirmed) ## Responsibilities Please ensure you read the attached job description and person specification in full before applying. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Proven record of NHS clinical leadership experience with specialist knowledge in the delivery of clinical Urgent & Emergency Care services in the Ambulance Sector - In depth knowledge across a number of disciplines within the NHS sector, including clinical service management, consultancy, information systems, staff and financial management. - Experience of successfully delivering against complex KPIs and improving clinical and/or operational efficiency of staff and services - Experience of managing high performing clinical and operational facing teams. - Experience of clinical practice development and applying improvement methodologies - Demonstrable experience of developing and leading the clinical governance agenda - Experience of appraising Executives, Board members, and/or senior managers of the respective merits of different options and potential opportunities - Experience of negotiating and establishing effective partnerships with local service providers, clinical networks, system providers/partners and trade unions. - Experience of collaboration with other NHS ambulance services, commissioners, STP/ICS leads, wider NHS providers and others key stakeholders e.g. Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, NHS England and NHS Improvement - Good understanding of the social, political, financial and business issues facing the NHS Ambulance Sector. - Experience of developing strategic direction and/or experience in strategic planning. - Experience of leading transformation and/or organisational change in post - Experience of managing financial resources/budgets at an area or locality level. ### Skills / Competencies **Essential** - Ability to develop strategic priorities & plans, organise staff and resources (through both influence and control) to achieve high quality patient care and delivery of quality targets - Able to deal with a number of competing priorities and deadlines on a day-to-day basis, allocating or delegating work to others as necessary - Ability to demonstrate clinical and personal credibility to a range of internal and external stakeholders, forging productive long-term relationships - Ability to network and forging sustainable, productive relationships at all levels within the local, regional and national health and care economy - Able to drive leading edge clinical practice, supported by advanced theoretical and practical knowledge - Skilled in negotiating, shaping and influencing service development involving partner agencies, system providers, regulators and key system leaders - Able to proactively plan and deliver clinical services & systems that are value for money - Ability to handle and analyse highly complex information and deliver key messages to a range of staff, including experienced clinicians and managers - Skilled in managing complex situations in the clinical practice and patient facing setting, including those where no obvious solution may exist - Developed written, verbal and IT based communication skills (e.g. in report writing) - Problem solving, influencing, vision and strategic thinking skills - Highly developed political, intellectual and analytical skills. - Demonstrable compassionate and inclusive leadership - Experience in the application of HR processes - Demonstrable experience of line management responsibilities - Capable of participating in an Area level on-call roster - Being accountable for results/actions and in turn holding others to account - Self-motivated and results driven, with the ability to work independently to deliver a highly complex range of priorities in a timely manner - Emotionally resilient and able to manage a fluctuating workload in a dynamic environment - Must be mobile throughout the Area covered by the Trust and out-of-area on occasion’s e.g. national travel ### Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Being at our best – professional and adaptable and takes pride in work - Making a difference – act with compassion, kindness and integrity towards everyone ### Qualification and Knowledge **Essential** - Educated to Master’s degree level, or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior clinical level and willing to complete a Master’s degree in post. - Post-graduate management qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience in post - Evidence of relevant continuous professional development; ideally covering clinical leadership, clinical service development and leading change - NARU occupational standards Strategic or Tactical Commander accreditation, or willing to complete this training upon commencement in post ## Documents - [application guide (pdf, 207.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2376) - [staff benefits brochure (pdf, 4.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3013) - [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 228.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1984) - [recruitment terms and conditions (pdf, 40.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1413) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 1014.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10334904) - [candidate's guide to nhs employment checks standards (pdf, 221.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1412) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.