Clinical Organisational Design Manager

HCRG Care Group; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health provider is seeking an experienced Clinical Organisational Design Manager to shape how clinical services are structured. This role involves coaching operational leaders, providing expertise on organisational design, and ensuring effective delivery of healthcare services. The position offers a salary of £35,000 – £42,000, with opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Group pension

Private medical insurance

Access to discounts and cashback offers

Professional development opportunities

Mental health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Strong experience in coaching, influencing and constructively challenging senior leaders.
• Collaborative and inclusive, ensuring all voices are heard in discussions.
• Evidence-led and outcome-focused, balancing patient safety and organisational needs.

Responsibilities

• Coach leaders in organisational design thinking and approach.
• Provide subject matter expertise on organisational design principles.
• Support teams to design clinical roles aligned to organisational needs.

Skills

Coaching senior leaders

Influencing skills

Interpersonal skills

Analysing workforce data

Understanding organisational design

Education

Clinical background

Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking Clinical Organisational Design Manager to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping how our clinical services are structured and delivered. This remote working role is based in Runcorn with occasional travel to our head office. The successful candidate will coach and support operational and clinical leaders in their organisational design thinking and approach, ensuring that structures are clear, sustainable, and aligned to service and organisational needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach and support operational and clinical leaders in their organisational design thinking and approach.
• Provide subject matter expertise on organisational design principles, role clarity, spans of control, skill‑mixing and clinical/non‑clinical integration.
• Champion positive colleague relations with stakeholders across the organisation, giving guidance on organisational change processes and policies.
• Act as subject‑matter expert for all clinical organisational design queries.
• Support teams to design clinical roles and structures that are clear, sustainable and aligned to service/contract and organisational needs.
• Provide expertise on role design, spans of control, skill‑mixing, opportunities for automation, integration and utilisation of technology.
• Coach operational leaders through the end‑to‑end organisational design process, ensuring accountability stays with them.
• Facilitate structured conversations to help leaders test, refine and embed their structures.
• Support managers on the development and “My Role Packs” for clinical roles to support workforce engagement and role clarity.
• Review consultation documentation ahead of a formal consultation launch.
• Review informal change material, e.g. briefings and presentations, when implementing organisational change that does not require formal consultation.

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong experience in coaching, influencing and constructively challenging senior leaders.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, building trust and credibility with clinical and operational stakeholders.
• Collaborative and inclusive, ensuring all voices are heard in OD discussions.
• Resilient and adaptable, able to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Evidence‑led and outcome‑focused, balancing patient safety, colleague experience and organisational needs.
• Clear and confident communicator, able to explain complex ideas in a simple way.
• Clinical background.
• In‑depth knowledge of organisational design principles, including role design and clarity, spans of control, and skill‑mixing for clinical roles.
• Strong understanding of job evaluation processes and national frameworks, e.g. Agenda for Change.
• Ability to advise on job sizing, grading and the reward implications of structure changes.
• Experience of contributing workforce into bids, tenders and business cases.
• Skilled in analysing workforce, financial and service data to inform robust clinical design recommendations.

About the Organisation

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services. We work with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services, urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, MSK services and adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive as possible. We also uphold safeguarding and safer working practices, with a safer recruitment process including criminal record checks and vetting.

Compensation and Benefits

• £35,000 – £42,000 with group pension.
• Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including musculoskeletal and mental health support at locations across the country.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases, cashback and voucher offers for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, and career coaching and counselling.
• Access to e‑learning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas that can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.