Clinical Lead – Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), QVH

NHS; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 115,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in East Grinstead seeks a General Practitioner to join their Community Diagnostic Centre. This role involves leading clinical initiatives, ensuring quality patient care, and collaborating with healthcare teams to enhance patient outcomes. Candidates should have recent GP experience and appropriate GMC registration. The position offers a part-time contract with a flexible working pattern.

Qualifications

• Must have current GMC registration.
• Experience in leading a GP practice at a senior level is essential.
• Desirable to have experience in pathway redesign and collaborative working.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and ensure high standards of patient care.
• Optimize diagnostic pathways and support the delivery of patient-centered services.
• Oversee clinical governance and support innovation within the team.

Skills

Current GP or Recent GP Work

GMC Registered

Led at a Senior Level in a GP Practice

Pathway Redesign

Collaborative Working

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a General Practitioner to join the QVH CDC Programme. The Clinical Lead for the QVH Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) is responsible for providing clinical leadership, ensuring high standards of patient care, optimising diagnostic pathways, and supporting the delivery of efficient, safe, and patient‑centred services. The role includes overseeing clinical governance, supporting innovation, and working collaboratively across primary, community, and secondary care to improve early diagnosis and patient outcomes.

QVH was one of the first wave Foundation Trusts and has consistently achieved high standards of patient care, scoring well in patient surveys for a number of years and topping the NHS league for quality of inpatient care in 23/24. QVH has an annual turnover of circa £100m, and employs circa 1000 staff. Working at QVH provides all staff with a comprehensive training and development programme so that their full potential can be realised. QVH follows the NHS Improving Working Lives standard; offering all staff flexible, supportive and family friendly working arrangements to improve equality and diversity and the opportunity to further develop skills to improve patient services and maintain a positive work‑life balance.

Responsibilities

Main duties of the job. See job description for further detail and feel free to contact regarding any queries that you may have on the email addresses provided on the advert.

About us

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond. We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer and skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise. Our world‑leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community‑based services. Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care. Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.

Details

• Date posted: 01 October 2025
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade: Doctor - other
• Salary: £76,038 to £114,743 a year Per Annum Pro Rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 276-750204-AC
• Job locations: Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, RH19 3DZ

Job description

Job responsibilities: See attached documentation. We welcome being contacted to discuss the role further with prospective candidates.

Person Specification

Experience

• Current GP or Recent GP Work
• GMC Registered
• Led at a Senior Level in a GP Practice

Desirable

• Pathway Redesign
• Collaborative Working

Compliance and sponsorship

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 CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, RH19 3DZ

Employer's website: https://www.qvh.nhs.uk/