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Clinical Lead
Clinical Lead Role – NHS England’s Transformation Directorate
About the Role
You will be joining a multidisciplinary team of clinicians across NHS England’s Transformations Directorate, shaping safe, nationwide programmes to deliver measurable benefits for citizens and patients. This Clinical Lead position empowers you to guide clinical informaticians, provide insightful clinical oversight, and act as a key clinical advocate within major transformation initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting strategic direction for Clinical Informaticians across high-impact programmes, ensuring safe and effective system-wide change.
- Serving as a vital clinical voice to programme teams while deputising for the Senior Clinical Lead on a range of functions.
- Leading clinical safety and assurance activities, monitoring programme/commercial compliance, and mitigating risks in complex services.
The role involves:
- Managing linkages between clinicians, health technologies, and delivery teams to optimise patient pathways.
- Managing internal and external stakeholders with sensitive, delicate issues (e.g., contentious systems priority-setting).
- Guiding multi-disciplinary teams (including software developers, data scientists, and project managers) to assure clinical alignment with programme objectives.
- Representing clinical perspectives in externally facing Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels or Advisory Groups.
Core Responsibilities
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Clinical Safety & Oversight
- Champion adherence to Patient Safety Incidents Procedures and clinical governance frameworks across programmes.
- Identify and escalate clinical risks in technology/business transformation projects.
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Strategic Leadership
- Collaborate with peers to inform NHS strategy through evidence-based clinical diver in digitalisation, data, and emerging technologies.
- Ensure clinical requirements are embedded in national campaigns and digital innovations.
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Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage fully with systemic collaboration forums (e.g., GP practices, hospitals, ICSs) on evolving NHS-wide initiatives.
- Strategically influence the development of Clinical Safety Assurance Rules for programme approvals.
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Professional Facility & Mentorship
- Model excellence in clinical safety professionalism, mentoring colleagues on safety assurance frameworks.
- Jointly develop clinical expert competencies frameworks to tie system-wide training.
Skills & Experience
Eligibility Requirements
- Currently registered and regulated by a relevant UK recognised UK professional body (e.g., GMC, NMC).
- Hold Trained Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) status.
- Banding:
- Agenda for Change (non-medical): 37.5hrs @ Band 8c
- Medical/dental: Full-time (10 Programme Activities or 40 working hrs), dependent on membership body and experience.
Key Expertise Expected
- Proficient in clinical informatics, operationalising clinical knowledge within health data and AI systems, social prescribing platforms, and digital decision support.
- Exceptional change management abilities, balancing urgency, efficiency, and patient-centric outcomes in complex organisational settings.
- Proven skills in multi-disciplinary team leadership, translating clinician behaviour change into scalable and sustainable digital transformation deliverables.
- A keen awareness of NHS regulation and policy frameworks, including the Categorisation Document and Management of Safety Incidents (e.g., dead bodies, DBS).
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Working Environment
Employment Terms
You will be employed under NHS England’s jurisdiction, following recent integration ventures with the Department of Health & Social Care.
NHS requires:
- Commitment to uphold NHS Values (Commitment, Respect, Service Minded, Integrity) plus willingness to engage in Electronic Staff Record (ESR) for onboarding activities.
If recruited from outside, salary will be at the banded minimum position, pending meeting standard recruitment protocols.
Operational Context
- Agenda marked for hybrid office-based operation (40% minimum time on-site, complemented by flexible remote working).
- Interntional collaboration demands diplomatic adaptability when addressing contentious stakeholder matters.
- A blend of strategic foresight and tactical project delivery underpins this dynamic NHS-wide scope.
- Functioning within a learning healthcare system in arguably its most pivotal phase of technological readiness and professional upskilling, ahead of the NHS’s historical leap towards fully-integrated tech-enhanced care.
Apply to deliver next-generation care through IT alignment
Established as a critical touchpoint at the patient-technology interfaces, your role here stands to:
- Diminish adverse incidents tied to clinical tech mismanagement.
- Elevate clinician well-being via intuitive, evidence-led technology penetration.
- Reconfigure health data governance collaborations to achieve scalable, ethical benefits, advancing the core aims of the NHS.
Contact for Queries: Raman Behl (Senior Clinical Lead) Contact email: behl.raman1@nhs.net Alternative inquiries addressed via usual NHS Engand recruitment channels.
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