Clinical Lead -Integrated Neighbourhoods

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Clinical Lead for Integrated Neighbourhoods in London to provide strategic leadership in a system transformation aimed at fostering neighbourhood-based care. This role requires extensive clinical leadership experience, guiding a skilled workforce, and promoting collaboration among various health and local authority partners.

Qualifications

• GMC-registered clinician with extensive clinical leadership experience at system or borough level.
• In-depth understanding of PCN development, MDT collaboration, and neighbourhood-based transformation.
• Ability to operate with credibility across strategic forums and civic partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and strategic direction to ensure coherence and consistency across eight neighbourhoods.
• Support PCNs to drive transformation by aligning neighbourhood priorities with operational and clinical goals.
• Act as a senior system leader across borough forums, governance groups, and ICS transformation programmes.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Organisational development

Coaching

Change facilitation

Education

Current professional clinical registration (GMC)

Job description

Go back City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CIC

Clinical Lead -Integrated Neighbourhoods

The closing date is 07 July 2025

City and Hackney is advancing a bold neighbourhood-basedmodel of careanchored in Primary Care Networks (PCNs), shaped by communities,and aligned with wider system reform across North East London. We are seeking asenior clinical leader with a strong track record in system transformation toguide the development of our eight integrated neighbourhoods.

This is a high-impact strategic leadership role offering theopportunity to influence and embed a maturing neighbourhood infrastructure thatsits at the intersection of place-based partnerships, PCNs, and integrated carepriorities.

Main duties of the job

As Clinical Lead for Integrated Neighbourhoods, you willprovide strategic clinical leadership to ensure that neighbourhood activity isboth responsive to local needs and aligned with system-wide objectives. Youwill work across organisational and professional boundaries to reframe localdelivery models, embed a shared population health approach, and strengthen theenabling role neighbourhoods can play in supporting PCN and Place ambitions.

You will also play a key role in leadership development,supporting the growth of a confident, skilled, and inclusive workforce to carrythe model forward.

About us

All 37 GP practices in City & Hackney are members of City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care with practices covering a growing registered patient list size of nearly 353,000

Job responsibilities

• Provide clinical and strategic direction to ensure coherence and consistency across eight neighbourhoods
• Support PCNs to drive transformation by aligning neighbourhood priorities with operational and clinical goals
• Act as a senior system leader across borough forums, governance groups, and ICS transformation programmes
• Strengthen neighbourhood capabilities in data-driven planning, proactive care, and partnership working
• Facilitate cross-system collaboration between primary care, community services, the local authority, and VCSE partners
• Lead on clinical engagement, workforce development, and succession planning at neighbourhood level

What were looking for:

• GMC-registered clinician with extensive clinical leadership experience at system or borough level
• In-depth understanding of PCN development, MDT collaboration, and neighbourhood-based transformation
• Ability to operate with credibility across strategic forums and civic partnerships
• Skilled in coaching, organisational development, and change facilitation
• Committed to reducing inequalities and embedding population health management approaches

Familiarity with City and Hackney or comparable boroughs is desirable, as is experience using PHM tools and leading integrated initiatives.

This is a unique opportunity to shape one of the most ambitious neighbourhood programmes in London. If you are passionate about clinically-led transformation, system alignment, and inclusive, place-based carethis role is for you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current professional clinical registration (GMC)

Experience

• Significant clinical leadership experience within primary care or across integrated systems.
• Experience in organisational development and workforce enablement.

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.

City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CIC