Clinical Lead Digital Urgent and Emergency Care

Job Overview PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM CONSULTANTS AND SAS DOCTORS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED WITHIN HYWEL DDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD. We are seeking an experienced and passionate Clinical Lead to join the Digital Urgent and Emergency Care Project, part of the wider Electronic Observations (eObs) and Patient Flow Digital Transformation Programme. This programme will introduce an integrated, real-time digital platform to support clinical decision-making, patient safety, and flow across urgent and emergency care.

This is a unique opportunity for an ED clinician to shape digital systems at the frontline, ensuring they reflect real clinical workflows and improve quality, safety, and patient outcomes.

The Digital Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Lead will provide strategic and clinical leadership at a Health Board level, acting as the link between clinical teams and digital transformation. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to define clinical requirements, support system design, testing, and adoption, and ensure alignment with national and local urgent and emergency care data standards (including WECDS).

The role requires flexibility, strong collaboration, and the ability to work within a dynamic programme environment, contributing to delivery milestones and supporting continuous improvement across Urgent and Emergency Care services.

Main duties of the job Digital Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Lead – Key Responsibilities and Requirements The post holder will represent Urgent and Emergency Care medical colleagues, ensuring the system is designed to meet collective clinical needs. They will champion the solution, working flexibly and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, and actively contribute to clinical working and steering groups.

Acting as the voice of Urgent and Emergency Care clinicians, they will ensure patient safety, quality standards and Emergency &​ Urgent Care dataset requirements (e.g. WECDS) are embedded. They will work with stakeholders to define workflows, translate these into system requirements, and shape system design, usability and functionality in line with best clinical practice.

The role includes providing clinical input into system configuration, leading clinical testing, validating data integrity, and ensuring compliance with clinical governance and safety standards. They will support training, promote engagement, and drive adoption across clinical teams, fostering interest in digital healthcare and service improvement.

The post holder will support change management, address concerns, promote benefits, and identify and mitigate clinical risks. They will work to agreed deadlines and contribute to delivery milestones. Post-implementation, they will monitor performance and recommend improvements to enhance quality, safety and patient flow.

Working for our organisation Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.

We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.

We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

Our services are provided in:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
• Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
• Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
• 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
• Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services

Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

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