Clinical Lead

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Cambridgeshire is seeking a Clinical Lead Healthcare to provide leadership and support for improving clinical services and patient outcomes. This role includes overseeing patient care delivery, implementing best practices, and driving clinical changes within the team. The ideal candidate will have robust leadership experience and a commitment to high-quality care delivery.

Qualifications

• Robust clinical leadership experience.
• Ability to manage and improve clinical services.
• Experience in overseeing patient care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and governance.
• Oversee patient care delivery and clinical outcomes.
• Support and drive clinical changes in service delivery.

Job description

Clinical Lead Healthcare

The post holder will provide robust clinical leadership, and they will support the Head of Healthcare of the Female estate to ensure delivery of high quality effective and efficient services and develop integrated pathways to support seamless service delivery built around patient need in the enhanced inpatient setting, including the implementation of systems and processes that support effective service delivery. The Clinical Lead will help to clinically manage the service landscape, this role will oversee patient care delivery, implement practices to maintain high standards, regularly review and update care plans, and evaluate clinical outcomes to identify areas for improvement. The Clinical Lead will take on a supervisory and hands‑on clinical role, including direct clinical support, running clinics, medication administration, oversight of the Enhanced care unit and long term condition management. The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the team they will actively seek out and disseminate information, governance, best practice, and knowledge that supports the development of service delivery, ensuring clinical innovation and quality. Highlight and facilitate the opportunity of introduction and development of new practices thereby supporting the implementation of key strategic priorities across the team. Support and Drive clinical changes in service delivery. By providing clinical leadership, clinical governance, and supporting junior staff, the Clinical Lead will work towards improving clinical decision-making, and patient outcomes.

About NHFT

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.