Clinical Pathway Manager

Supply Chain Coordination Limited; Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; Sur place; EUR 56 000 - 66 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual bonus

Long service awards

Paid holidays

Training and professional development

Well-being leave

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits

Volunteer days

Employee discounts

Résumé du poste

NHS Supply Chain is offering an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pathway Manager to lead clinical engagement and drive evidence-based pathway improvements across the North West region. You will work with clinical stakeholders to identify opportunities that improve patient outcomes while delivering measurable value for the NHS.

The role requires extensive clinical experience, strong change-management capabilities, and collaboration with national teams to scale innovations in care pathways.

Qualifications

• Five years' clinical experience and registration with HCPC or NMC.
• Understanding of clinical pathways and patient flow across care settings.
• Strong stakeholder management with clinicians and regulators.
• Experience in pathway redesign and system-level transformation.
• Experience delivering change management and stakeholder engagement.

Responsabilités

• Develop relationship plans for existing accounts and identify key decision-makers to enable effective project progression.
• Lead development and execution of policies to improve care pathways and adoption of innovation.
• Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement to address needs and concerns.
• Lead clinical engagement with regional stakeholders and provide input for major partnerships.
• Identify and optimise relationships with external and internal stakeholders and regulators.
• Identify process gaps and deliver a small change-management plan.
• Collaborate with Care Pathway teams to optimise value-based workstreams.

Connaissances

Clinical experience

Clinical pathways understanding

Stakeholder management

Pathway redesign

Change management

Quality improvement evaluation

Driving licence

Formation

HCPC/NMC registration

Description du poste

Location: Mobile Worker (North West Region)

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: Offered on a starting salary of £47,874 with the potential to increase to £56,322 over the course of three years

Closing Date: Sunday 27 September 2026 NHS Supply Chain has an exciting opportunity for a

Job Posted: 21 September 2026 Job Updated: 21 September 2026 Job Title: Clinical Pathway Manager NHS Supply Chain has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pathway Manager to join our Care Pathway Team at a pivotal time of transformation, helping to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first. We are seeking an experienced clinical professional to lead clinical engagement activities that drive the adoption of evidence-based best practice and support the transformation of patient care pathways across the NHS. In this role, you will work collaboratively with clinical stakeholders in the North West region, to identify and implement opportunities that improve patient outcomes while delivering measurable clinical and non-clinical value. The Clinical Pathway Manager will also take ownership of the end-to-end management of clinically disruptive innovation opportunities, ensuring the successful evaluation, adoption and scaling of solutions that enhance quality of care, improve patient experience and release sustainable value for the NHS.

Every day you will …

• Develop and implement a relationship management plan for existing customer accounts to identify and build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers within the customer organisation to enable effective two-way flow of information and progression of projects. Collect feedback from identified customers or customer segments to ensure their needs are met, providing themes, summary analyses, and recommendations for change based on customer input.
• Take strategic direction and lead the development and execution of policies and processes that improve and enhance care pathways and the adoption of innovation
• Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective working relationships for projects and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.
• Lead clinical engagement and manage the relationships with key clinical stakeholders across region. Provide support for senior colleagues with clinical input for engagement with larger key partners and stakeholders.
• Identify and optimise relationships and interactions with external and internal stakeholders, including key decision makers, regulators, public organisations, governmental institutions, suppliers, providers, professional communities, and customer/client/patient groups.
• Identify shortcomings and suggest improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures, then deliver a plan for a small element of a change management program with guidance from a project/program manager.
• Collaborate with the local Care Pathway Specialist and National Care Pathway Team to optimise the delivery of our Value Based Healthcare and Innovation workstreams.

What can we offer you?

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%).
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• A minimum of five years’ experience in a Clinical setting and fully registered with a professional clinical body such as HCPC or NMC.
• An understanding of clinical pathways and patient flow across acute, community and a primary care setting.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with previous experience in dealing with clinicians, Exec team members, regulators, and external partners.
• Previous experience in pathway redesign, care model development, and system-level transformation.
• Skills in designing and delivering change management plans, including stakeholder engagement, communications, risk management and rollout planning.
• The ability to evaluate quality improvement opportunities, patient outcome impact and value release.
• Due to the travel requirements of the role, candidates must possess a full, valid driving licence.

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.