Clinical lead

This Clinical Lead role sits within NHS England's Transformation Digital & Data Directorate, forming part of a multidisciplinary team delivering national programmes across Digital Clinical Informatics (DCI) and the Digital Primary Care Portfolio.

As a Clinical Lead, you will provide a senior clinical voice across multidisciplinary teams, lead Clinical Informaticians, oversee national programmes, and advise on digital risk, with clinical safety and assurance at the core.

This post is multidisciplinary. Pay band 8c or MDL1 depending on professional registration.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and support other clinicians across the organization, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support.
• Represent the organization in externally facing Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels or Clinical Advisory Groups.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders on sensitive, complex, and contentious issues.
• Advise on digital risk, ensuring clinical safety and assurance.

Qualifications:

• Experienced Clinical Safety Officers with a strong background in digital clinical safety, assurance, and risk management.
• Deep understanding of the interdependencies between GP IT, community pharmacy, and the national infrastructure that underpins primary care.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Eligibility: If you currently work within the NHS, an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) will be initiated via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) upon successful interview. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Contact: Rishi Mannan, Deputy Director Digital Safety, rishi.mannan1@nhs.net