Senior Clinical Lead

NHS England; Exeter, Leeds; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Exeter seeks an experienced Senior Clinical Lead to shape the safe delivery of national programmes. You will lead a varied team of clinicians to ensure high-quality care and engage with stakeholders on critical issues. Candidates must be registered health professionals with substantial NHS experience and possess clinical safety officer training. This role requires leadership, accountability, and communication skills, offering a significant opportunity to make an impact in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge.
• Substantial post-registration NHS/Social care experience.
• Trained and accredited clinical safety officer.

Responsibilities

• Shape delivery of national programmes for citizen benefits.
• Engage with stakeholders on complex issues.
• Lead and support other clinicians across the organisation.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Communication

Knowledge of NHS frameworks

Education

Masters level or equivalent experience

Job description

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

Job responsibilities

In the Senior Clinical lead role, you will join a varied pool 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 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
• 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

• 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

• 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.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.