Group Clinical Director | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 29 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £100,000 - £200,000 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2026 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 5WW |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7973267/358-7973267-COR |
Summary
We are seeking an exceptional Group Clinical Director to help lead the delivery of our ambitious UHL–UHN Group Clinical Strategy (2025–2035) which is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform care for nearly 1.9 million people.
Together, University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) operate five acute hospitals, 19 community sites, and employ around 30,000 colleagues, with a combined annual spend of £2.9bn. Our scale gives us a unique platform to standardise care, accelerate innovation, and deliver population-level impact.
As Group Clinical Director, you’ll unite clinicians across UHL and UHN to deliver safer, more equitable, digitally enabled care at scale. If you’re a system-minded clinical leader ready to turn bold strategy into real impact, this is your chance to shape the future of care. You will help lead and deliver one of the most ambitious clinical transformations in the NHS..
You will play a pivotal role in translating strategy into real-world impact, aligning clinical, operational, and digital transformation across our Group and provide visible, credible clinical leadership to drive delivery across strategic focus areas.
We’re recruiting a Group Clinical Director to work along side a program lead. We are looking for someone with clinical visibility, a system minded leadership approach and drive to implement the Group Clinical Strategy (GCS) across our six focus areas:
1. Working together across UHL-UHN to ensure services are safe and sustainable (clinical networks, common policies, digital integration)
2. Changing how we care for people with frailty and long-term conditions (anticipatory care, remote monitoring, SDEC) https://www.uhleicester.nhs.uk/news/our-uhl-uhn-group-clinical-strategy-2025-2035/
3. Delivering care in communities and neighbourhoods (community beds, UTC capacity, one-stop diagnostics, virtual models)
4. Giving children the best start in life (maternity & neonatal safety/quality, equitable paediatrics)
5. Strengthening cancer services (earlier diagnosis, expanded CDCs, integrated SACT at home, sustainable equipment plans)
6. Improving access and reducing waiting times (shared PTLs, elective hubs, protect elective capacity, digital pre-op)
You will help lead teams across UHL and UHN to align clinical, operational and digital programmes, translate strategy into measurable outcomes, and ensure benefits are realised for patients and staff—anchored in our 3 key principles.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
https://www.uhleicester.nhs.uk
Key responsibilities:
· Clinical leadership & change: Act as a unifying clinical leader across UHL-UHN, building high-trust networks of clinicians to co-design and implement standardised, evidence-based pathways and shared clinical policies.
· Shift care into communities and digital platforms. Empower clinical teams to Redesign pathways so more patients are managed closer to home and embed digital tools such as EPR, virtual care, and remote monitoring.
· Strengthen cross-system clinical partnerships. Engage with external stakeholders to build integrated working with primary care, community teams and social care, ensuring pathways are coordinated and co-produced with patients.
· Improve productivity, efficiency and value through innovation and workforce leadership. Working with digital leads to drive the adoption of AI, new workforce models and streamlined processes to increase capacity and reduce waste.
· Inclusive leadership; Champion interventions to reduce inequalities in access, outcomes and experience—working with inclusion health, public health and community partners.
This advert closes on Wednesday 13 May 2026