Senior Clinical Lead

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Clinical Lead to shape the delivery of national programmes and support better care for patients. The role requires a registered health or care professional with significant experience in the NHS, emphasizing stakeholder engagement and leading clinical governance. This position offers a chance to impact public health positively and ensure compliance with clinical safety standards.

Qualifications

• Registered and regulated health or care professional.
• Experience with NHS quality improvement frameworks.
• Substantial post-registration NHS/Social care experience.

Responsibilities

• Support internal clinical safety and assurance activities.
• Lead and support other clinicians.
• Engage stakeholders over complex issues.

Skills

Clinical governance

Evidence-based guidelines

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Masters level education or equivalent experience

Job description

Job summary: In this Senior Clinical Lead role, you will join a varied team of clinicians from different professions, working on products and services across NHS England's Transformation Directorate. You will play a key role in shaping the safe delivery of national programmes to provide clear benefits for citizens and patients, and support clinicians to provide better care.

The post holder(s) will support internal clinical safety and assurance activities and provide oversight of the clinical aspects of programmes and projects within Transformation Directorate, deputising for the Senior Clinical Lead across a range of functions.

Candidates are required to be registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge and trained Clinical Safety Officers (CSOs).

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will be required to have regular contact with internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex and contentious issues. You will also be expected to lead and support other clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support and are represented in externally facing Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels or Clinical Advisory Groups.

About us

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms -- including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

We lead the NHS in England by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge in a key area of practice, holding current professional clinical registration with an appropriate professional body.
• Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Substantial post-registration NHS/Social care experience demonstrated over a number of years

Desirable:

• A trained and accredited clinical safety officer with current application in practice. If not, post holders will be expected to undertake training within 6 months of appointment

Knowledge and Experience

Essential:

• Experience of working with NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks and their requirements.
• Understands the sources and quality of evidence relating to clinical assessment and their application to practice
• Experience of leading complex organisational assessment processes with an understanding of clinical IT systems

Skills Capabilities & Attributes

Essential:

• Able to lead and monitor the ongoing research and development of evidence-based clinical guidelines that reflect national guidelines and ensure safe systems of working across NHS England.
• Lead the clinical governance framework through strategic accountability for clinical risk and clinical safety
• Takes accountability for the safe, level and ethical use of information across systems, services and in clinical practice

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.

UK Registration

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