Senior Clinical Lead | NHS England

NHS England; Exeter, Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Clinical Lead to drive clinical informatics initiatives. This role involves leadership in clinical safety, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring effective delivery of healthcare technologies. Applicants must be registered health professionals with specialized knowledge. The position offers a chance to influence the future of NHS services and enhance care delivery for citizens.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have high-level specialist knowledge.
• Experience working with stakeholders on complex issues is required.
• Ability to lead and support other clinicians is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support internal clinical safety and assurance activities.
• Oversee clinical aspects of programs and projects.
• Engage with stakeholders over sensitive and complex issues.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Clinical safety assurance

Multi-professional collaboration

Education

Registered health or care professional

Trained Clinical Safety Officer

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.

Our Senior Clinical lead provide the framework and direction for our Clinical Informaticians working across programmes and involved in large scale change, as well as providing a key clinical voice to programme teams within Transformation Directorate.

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).

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.

You will join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians with a variety of clinical backgrounds, all of whom have chosen informatics as a specialist area of expertise. You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as the role of clinical informaticians becomes more important than ever before in supporting the safe and effective use of technology across health and social care services, for the benefit of patients and citizens.

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.

Key Objectives

• 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

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.

If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Note: This advert closes on Thursday 16 Oct 2025