Clinical Informatics Specialist

Nhs England; Ledston; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is seeking a Clinical Informatics Specialist to join the Transformation Directorate, delivering expert clinical informatics support across the NHS App portfolio and national programmes. You will shape safe delivery, provide clinical voice to teams, and support clinicians to improve patient care.

The post requires registered professionals, with a high level of specialist knowledge, and a track record in informatics, safety, and governance.

Qualifications

• Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge in a key area of practice.
• Educated to masters' degree level or equivalent level of experience in a similar role.
• Desirable: trained and accredited clinical safety officer.
• UK Registration with current professional registration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support clinicians across the organisation ensuring programmes and services have access to clinical support.
• Provide clinical voice to programme boards, reference panels or advisory groups.
• Support safe and effective use of technology across health and social care services.

Skills

Clinical governance

Risk management

Incident management

Clinical informatics

Briefing papers

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Quality improvement

Education

Masters degree

Job description

Job summary

In this Clinical Informatics Specialist role, you will join a varied team of clinicians from different professions, working on products and services across NHS England's Transformation Directorate.

The post holder will work as part of a team delivering specialist clinical informatics support and clinical assurance across the suite of digital products, services and health information in the NHS App portfolio.

You will play a key role in shaping the safe delivery of national programmes to provide clear benefits for citizens and patients, and support clinicians to provide better care. Our Clinical Informatics Specialist provide the framework and direction for our Clinical Informaticians working across programmes and involved in large scale change, as well as providing a key clinical voice to programme teams within Transformation Directorate.

Candidates are required to be registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge and trained Clinical Safety Officers (CSOs).

These roles can be appointed to agenda for change on experience and membership to relevant professional body.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will be required to have regular contact with internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex and contentious issues.

You will also be expected to lead and support other clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support and are represented in externally facing Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels or Clinical Advisory Groups.

You will join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians with a variety of clinical backgrounds, all of whom have chosen informatics as a specialist area of expertise.

You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as the role of clinical informaticians becomes more important than ever before in supporting the safe and effective use of technology across health and social care services, for the benefit of patients and citizens.

About us

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and 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. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Details

Date posted: 23 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum (exclusive of London weighting)

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 5 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number: 990-TDD-CL-EC6013-E

Job locations: This role can be based in Leeds, London, or Exeter

Job responsibilities

In this Clinical Informatics Specialist role, you will join a varied pool of clinicians from different professions, working on products and services across NHS England's Transformation Directorate. You will play a key role in shaping the safe delivery of national programmes to provide clear benefits for citizens and patients, and support clinicians to provide better care.

Our Clinical Informatics Specialist provide the framework and direction for our Clinical Informaticians working across programmes and involved in large scale change, as well as providing a key clinical voice to programme teams within Transformation Directorate.

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Secondments: Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge in a key area of practice, holding current professional clinical registration with an appropriate professional body.
• Educated to masters' degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.

Desirable

• A trained and accredited clinical safety officer with current application in practice. If not, post holders will be expected to undertake training within 6 months of appointment

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Understanding of NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks, and their requirements.
• Understanding of the sources and quality of evidence relating to clinical assessment and their application to practice.
• Understanding of clinical, benefit realisation, within the context of an organisation's approach to benefits realisation management.
• Effective understanding and knowledge base of risk management methodology and its application in the clinical domain
• Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.

Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes

Essential

• Works effectively with clinical governance frameworks and supports the identification, analysis and mitigation plans for clinical risks and issues related to systems and products.
• Supports Incident management and untoward event reporting and investigation.
• Supports a coordinated response to clinical safety events and incidents in live service within their sphere of expertise.
• Promotes understanding of the implications of citizen choice and preference options.
• Provides specialised clinical informatics advice and expertise to both clinical and non-clinical staff within projects regarding the delivery of health and care services.
• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.

Values and Behaviours

Essential

• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
• Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: NHS England

Employer's website: https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Lead, Shahzad Ahmad, [e-mail]

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