Clinical Effectiveness Manager Band 7

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Lincolnshire seeks a Clinical Effectiveness Manager (Band 7) to provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of the clinical effectiveness agenda. The role ensures robust governance, audit delivery and NICE guidance implementation, collaborating with clinical leaders and corporate teams.

The postholders will lead and develop the clinical effectiveness function, driving continuous improvement and ensuring regulatory readiness across

Qualifications

• Management or professional qualification at postgraduate level.
• Masters level or equivalent experience.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in Clinical Effectiveness, including clinical audit (local and national).
• Experience managing staff and senior NHS experience.
• Knowledge of information governance and quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and auditing compliance with national and local clinical standards and guidelines including NICE guidelines in conjunction with clinical and non-clinical colleagues across the Group.
• Ensure all required clinical audit activity is carried out; meeting both internal requirements and requirements of external agencies.
• Participation in National Clinical Audits within NCAPOP/Quality Account and related activities.
• Analysing and synthesising data to prepare complex reports for the Group.
• Developing the Group’s annual clinical audit programme to monitor effectiveness.
• Overseeing and line managing the Group Clinical Effectiveness Team and delivering improvement projects.

Skills

Leadership

Staff management

Project management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Quality improvement

Governance

Education

Masters level qualification

Postgraduate qualification

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

IT systems & databases

Job description

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals Town Lincoln Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/09/2026 23:59

Clinical Effectiveness Manager Band 7

NHS AfC: Band 7

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – "Caring and building a healthier future for all" – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

The Clinical Effectiveness Manager is a full-time (1.0 WTE) post with responsibility for providing strategic leadership and operational oversight of the Trust’s clinical effectiveness agenda. The role ensures robust governance and assurance in relation to clinical audit, NICE guidance identification and implementation, supporting the delivery of high-quality, evidence‑based care. Working in partnership with clinical leaders, managers and corporate teams, the post‑holder will drive continuous improvement, support regulatory readiness and provide clear, reliable assurance to senior management and Trust committees, while leading and developing the clinical effectiveness function.

There is a requirement for onsite working.

Main duties of the job

To actively manage the Clinical Effectiveness & Audit Agenda across the Group.

To ensure the Group is adhering to current policies and guidelines and they are updated in line with national guidance.

To support clinical teams across the Group, in identifying quality improvements from the recommendations identified in clinical audit reports, and the ability to generate reports to all levels of staff across the Group, to pre‑determined time scales.

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Implementing and auditing compliance with national and local clinical standards and guidelines including NICE guidelines in conjunction with clinical and non-clinical colleagues across the Group.

Ensure all required clinical audit activity is carried out; meeting both internal requirements and requirements of external agencies.

Participation in all National Clinical Audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCACOP) and Quality Account.

Analysing and synthesising data from a variety of sources to prepare complex reports for the Group.

Developing the Group’s annual clinical audit programme, ensuring both national and local priorities are scheduled, and use clinical audit and quality improvement as a way to monitor effectiveness.

Overseeing and line managing the Group Clinical Effectiveness Team in the delivery of their portfolio of projects that reflect national and organisational priorities, utilising the principles of project management as a means of enhancing and improving the quality of care, treatment and services provided by the Trust.

Ensure that there is a process in place to monitor that actions arising from clinical audit are implemented.

Collaborating with staff at all levels of the organisation, linking with external agencies to develop and promote clinical effectiveness as an integral part of the working practice of all staff involved in the provision of services across the Group.

Supporting clinical teams by providing guidance on improvement methodologies and implementing the changes identified as a result of clinical audits, quality improvement projects, NICE and national guidance.

Supporting and participating in the development and delivery of the clinical audit teaching programme collaborating with the education team to ensure effective and appropriate teaching of clinical effectiveness and improvement methodologies.

Providing effective leadership and professional advice to all Group staff on clinical effectiveness, quality improvement and audit.

Overseeing the maintenance and timely update of the Trust database of audit activity, NCEPOD & NICE compliance

Producing and updating Group Policy and Guidance to support staff in the completion of their duty around the management of Audits and Best Practice..

With Divisional Audit Leads develop systems ensuring clinical audit action plans are agreed, implemented and monitored by the relevant services/clinical teams and prepare regular reports on the progress of audit projects.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Management or Professional qualification at postgraduate level or equivalent relevant experience.
• Evidence of ongoing learning and development
• Qualified to Masters level or equivalent experience
• Formal training in complaints management
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Windows based applications including Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills including accurate records management
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Knowledge

• The ability to extract and analyse complex data from business management IT systems and databases.
• Good understanding of quality improvement processes.
• Knowledge of information governance regulations and requirements as they relate to healthcare service providers.

Experience

• Experience of working within a Clinical Effectiveness role including clinical audit both local and national.
• Demonstrable track record of achievement in a senior clinical role.
• Experience of managing staff as part of a team
• Extensive experience of working with business management IT systems and databases.
• Experience of working at senior level in the NHS.

Special attributes/specific requirements

• Understanding of and commitment to the Trust’s values
• Self‑motivated and committed to improving the quality and safety of healthcare services within the Trust.
• An understanding of the regulatory framework applicable to the delivery of healthcare services in an acute hospital Trust.

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick "Member of the Armed Forces Community" if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Bernadine Gallen Job title Ass Director Clinical Effectiveness & Complaints Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07740780837