Deputy Clinical Director

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 104,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Sheffield is seeking an experienced Deputy Clinical Director to support clinical governance across its practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of clinical governance processes, leadership experience, and be on the GMC register as a General Practitioner. This role offers a pro-rata salary of £103,500 per year, emphasizing the importance of quality care delivery in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in undertaking audits.
• Ability to analyze information to identify discrepancies.
• Experience of writing clinical governance papers.
• Evidence of continual professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee clinical governance processes across PCS Group Practices.
• Support practices in demonstrating compliance with relevant frameworks.
• Identify risks and opportunities for quality improvement.
• Review patient feedback and complaints for areas of improvement.
• Support development of the Clinical Governance Committee practice report.

Skills

Knowledge of Clinical Governance processes

Leadership and resource management skills

Experience of GP practice CQC inspection processes

Attention to detail

Education

General Practitioner on GMC register

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in shaping the quality and safety culture across Primary Care Sheffield. You'll work within a supportive, forward-thinking federation that values collaboration, innovation, and professional development.

2 sessions per week for Clinical Management. The rate of pay is £11,500 per clinical leadership session

Additionally, we have 2 to 6 clinical sessions available as Roving GP within PCS Group Practices. These will be paid at sessional rate of £9,938.82 to £10,563.90 (dependant on experience).

Interview will be held on 24 November 2025.

The Role:

We are seeking an experienced and motivated GP to take on the role of Deputy Clinical Director (Senior Responsible Clinician for Clinical Governance) for PCS Group Practices.

This role is pivotal in supporting and assuring the highest standards of clinical governance across our practices, ensuring compliance with regulatory, legal, and quality requirements.

You will work closely with practice teams, site leads, and wider practice leadership to monitor, support, and enhance governance processes, patient safety, and quality improvement across the organisation.

It is an exciting opportunity with scope for personal and professional development particularly in clinical leadership.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee clinical governance processes across all PCS Group Practices.
• Support practices in demonstrating compliance with CQC, NICE, MHRA, and other relevant frameworks.
• Identify risks and opportunities for quality improvement, working with site leads to deliver sustainable solutions.
• Lead the annual audit plan and quality improvement projects, ensuring learning is embedded.
• Review patient feedback (FFT, GP surveys) and complaints to identify and act on areas for improvement.
• Contribute to clinical governance reporting and assurance for the PCS Clinical Governance Committee.
• Support practices in maintaining compliance with QOF, IIF, and contractual performance measures.
• Provide visible clinical leadership across PCS practices.

About us

About Primary Care Sheffield

Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a not-for-profit company set up by GPs in Sheffield to help deliver world-class primary care in the City. The organisation is well respected nationally and was recently praised by the CQC for the delivery of outstanding out of hours services.

Our organisational values underpin everything we do:

• Openness: We are transparent, share knowledge, and welcome feedback.
• Person Centred: We are empathetic, understanding, and inclusive.
• Innovative: We embrace change and seek better solutions.
• Ambitious: We strive for the best for Sheffield and its people.
• Empowering: We engage our staff, patients, and partners to improve health and wellbeing together.

Job responsibilities

Organisational Values:

As an employee of Primary Care Sheffield you will be committed to PCSs organisational values:

• Openness: ensuring transparency sharing knowledge and welcoming feedback
• Person Centred: Being empathic and understanding of the individual
• Innovative: Embracing change and inquisitive of new solutions
• Ambitious: Working towards the best for Sheffield and its people
• Empowering: Actively engaging staff, our population and partner organisations in improving the health and wellbeing of Sheffield people.

Job Summary

• To support clinical governance standards across the PCS practices and ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements
• To liaise with sites to support associated clinical and administrative processes
• Engage in PSIRF processes
• To provide detail and assurance to the PCS practices leadership team, to enable them to report on compliance and issues to the PCS Clinical Governance Committee.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To understand clinical governance requirements and ensure that the practices are evidencing compliance with requirements

To ensure that MHRA and other alerts are enacted at site level with the site liaison leads

To be able to identify risk and opportunities and work with site leads, and other leads and teams to ensure processes are implemented to improve quality and compliance

Lead quality improvement activities such as the audit plan and associated audits, ensure delivery across sites, and then learning is implemented

To ensure the practices are kept up-to-date with CQC changes and implement appropriate processes

Review FFT and annual GP surveys and identify areas for improvement, and then track delivery against these

Work with the complaints champion and practice senior team to identify and action areas for improvements

To liaise with QOF, IIF and contracts lead to explore areas of under-performance

To support development of the Clinical Governance Committee practice report

To ensure practices are compliant with NICE guidance and ensure updates to guidance are disseminated to practices

Have some on-site presence across all the PCS practices group

Organisation

Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a GP-led organisation. Our shareholders are 75 GP practices in Sheffield covering over half a million patients.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Understanding

• Knowledge of Clinical Governance processes.
• Leadership and resource management skills, including how to prioritise work and support others.
• Extensive experience and expertise in undertaking audits.
• Knowledge of PCS committee systems and processes.

Skills and Competencies

• Experience of GP practice CQC inspection processes.
• An understanding of how to analyse information to identify discrepancies, and identify solutions.
• Ability to plan for and keep track of multiple pieces of work and deadlines across several workstreams.
• Ability to write/contribute to policy development in this field.
• Experience of writing clinical governance papers.

Attributes

• Keen attention for detail and professional curiosity to ensure the practices are delivering a quality service.

Qualifications

• General Practitioner on GMC register.

Experience

• Evidence of continual professional development
• Experience of clinical report writing

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.

£103,500 a year(Pro-Rata) - Sessional rate is £11,500