Senior Clinical Lead
Job summary
In this Senior Clinical Lead role, you will work within a multidisciplinary clinical team across NHS England's Transformation Directorate, delivering national Primary Care and General Practice digital programmes.
As a Senior Medical Leader in Primary Care Informatics within the DCI team, you will lead a multi-professional team supported by Clinical Leads, with responsibility for overseeing the design, planning and implementation of Primary Care digital products and developments, including patient safety-related elements.
You will provide a strong, authoritative clinical voice, shaping the safe delivery of programmes that improve outcomes for patients and citizens. The role includes senior engagement with General Practice, Medical Royal Colleges and Unions, and chairing relevant national forums as appropriate.
Applicants must:
- Be a trained and experienced Clinical Safety Officer, with high-level specialist knowledge and experience of clinical safety, assurance and risk management within digital health environments.
This post is being advertised on a multidisciplinary basis and is open to applicants on Agenda for Change, Medical or NHS Leader pay frameworks, dependent on professional background and experience.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities will include:
- Leading the NHS England Digital Clinical Governance Framework, working across services, programmes, and projects.
- Responsible for the delivery and implementation of clinical governance, continuous quality improvement, clinical safety, and clinical benefits delivery.
- Provides highly-specialised and expert clinical informatics advice and expertise to both clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Representing and promoting understanding of the voice of citizens and patients in digital healthcare-related fora.
- Demonstrates experience, credibility and the ability to influence and establish the respect of clinical and non-clinical professionals at all levels.
- Leading effective engagement with key stakeholders, professional communities and system users to ensure high-quality clinical input into NHS England activities.
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose 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.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
Job description
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.
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.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Please see the attached Job Description for further details on the role, responsibilities and person specification.
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
Knowledge and Experience
- Experience of working with NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks and their requirements.
- Experience of implementing, monitoring and assuring clinical governance structures
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
Skills Capabilities and Attributes
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- 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
- Provides expert advice on how NHS and social care operates with particular understanding of key areas of clinical risk
Values and Behaviours
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
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.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS England
Address
Wellington House/Wellington Place
London/Leeds
SE1 8UG
Employer's website
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/