Clinical Fellow – Maternity and Neonates

NHS Supply Chain; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Supply Chain seeks a Clinical Fellow focused on maternity services to engage with product evaluations and enhance maternity care across England. The role involves collaboration with clinical teams and stakeholders while supporting innovative solutions in healthcare procurement.

Benefits

Hybrid working opportunities

Annual bonus schemes

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

12% pension contribution

Well-being leave and Employee Assistance Programme access

Professional development opportunities

Leadership Academy access

Qualifications

• Experience within the NHS is required.
• Strong understanding of maternity care pathways.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and present findings.

Responsibilities

• Develop a core list of maternity innovations based on departmental needs.
• Collaborate with clinicians to evaluate product needs.
• Support product evaluations and procurement recommendation.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder Engagement

Analytical Skills

Education

Clinically registered professional in maternity or neonatal care

Job description

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Job Title: Clinical Fellow – Maternity and Neonates

Location: Hybrid working from any of our NHS Supply Chain Office Locations

Salary: £64,062 per annum

Contract Type: Fixed Term (12 months)

Working Pattern: Full time

About The Role

NHS Supply Chain is seeking a clinically qualified and passionate health care professional who is looking for a new challenge to join NHS Supply Chain as a Clinical Fellow, focused on maternity services. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of developing our strategic thinking to support maternity services across England. Spending time with clinical and procurement colleagues evaluating new and emerging maternity products, engaging with NHS clinicians, and helping shape the national landscape of maternity care product and medical devices provision. Ensuring our health care products offer to maternity departments expands and developed in line with what the NHS needs.

As a Clinical Fellow, you will work with our Head of Clinical Professional Standards and a multi-disciplinary team within our commercial directorate to support the delivery of safe, effective, and innovative products to NHS trusts maternity departments across England. You will act as a bridge between clinical practice and supply chain functions—ensuring maternity products meet the needs of women and people having babies and their families, clinicians, and service leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a curated “core list” of promising and emerging maternity innovations, products, and technologies based on the needs of maternity departments across the NHS in England.
• Collaborate with maternity clinicians, NHS trusts, professional bodies and supplier partners to understand current needs and future priorities.
• Support product evaluations through healthcare professional engagement, real-world testing, data collection, and clinical feedback.
• Contribute to evidence-based recommendations for procurement decisions and service improvement.
• Present findings to internal teams and external stakeholders, including NHS trusts and maternity and clinical networks.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• A clinically registered professional (e.g., midwife, neonatal, obstetrician, GP with maternity interest, or nurse) with current or recent NHS experience.
• Strong understanding of maternity care pathways and challenges within NHS settings.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• An interest in innovation, clinical and quality procurement/product evaluation, and service improvement.
• Experience in audit, research, evaluation, or quality improvement is desirable.
  
  

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 clinically registered professional (e.g., doctor, nurse, AHP, or public health specialist) with recent NHS experience.
• A solid understanding of population health principles, health inequalities, and system-level data trends.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret and explain complex datasets in clinical and practical terms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience working across systems or in integrated care settings is desirable.
  
  

Why Join NHS Supply Chain?

• 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 VIP colleagues 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.
• Work at the intersection of clinical strategy, data, and supply chain innovation of healthcare procurement.
• Be part of a growing, values-led team delivering national impact.
• Opportunities for professional development in clinical leadership, data-driven innovation, and health systems improvement
• Leadership Academy - The Leadership Academy builds on the competencies within a leader’s success profile necessary for high performance and bring to life a shared vision and purpose - to help the NHS save lives and improve health by making it easier for them to put patients first.
• We’ve invested in a digital learning platform called Coaching Culture, that is available to all colleagues. Resources include mindset modules on confidence, emotional intelligence, resilience, positive attitude and more, alongside digital coaching lessons and self-assessment tools, designed to coach and develop a range of key skills and behaviours.
  
  

For an informal conversation about this role, please contact: Claire Dyson, Head of Clinical Professional Standards via email [e-mail]

Closing date: 27th June

Interview date: WC 7th July

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at [e-mail]

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.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

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

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