Group Clinical Director
| Posting date: | 29 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £61,542.00 to £145,478.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61542.00 - £145478.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2026 |
| Location: | Northampton, Kettering, Leicester, NN1 5BD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9265-26-0300 |
Summary
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 experienceworking with inclusion health, public health and community partners. What youll lead on: There are several key workstreams already inaction, and you help coordinate leads to ensure ongoing action in the workstreams and centralised reporting of progress for these existing workstreams: Safety & sustainability: Identify fragile services and lead mitigations (networking, consolidation or virtual models) ensuring safe, sustainable configuration across our five acute sites and community facilities. Advancing frailty transformation through shared interventions, workshops and workforce mapping. Improving cancer care across the group through uniformed pathways. Addressing city wide neighbourhood demand through data analysis, behavioural insight surveys and cross sector workshop. Reshaping maternity, neonatal and CYP services via modelling, clinician engagement and co produced configuration plans; strengthening cancer services through a three year plan, improved cross site working and upcoming oncology and strategy events; improving access by aligning outpatient transformation priorities and defining digital, AI and pathway redesign opportunities; and establishing enabling functions by forming corporate support structures, drafting governance and coordinating cross workstream requirements. You are not expected to be a clinical expert in areas outlined about, and would you be expected to directly deliver on KPI for the work streams. You will enable colleagues across UHL and UHN to work together in these focus areas tapping into the four enablers. Colleagues: Help to build a skilled, supported and inclusive workforce that can deliver safe, standardised and transformed care. Enables the culture, leadership and wellbeing needed for teams to adopt new ways of working. Digital, Data and Technology: Provides the digital tools and data needed to redesign pathways, enhance efficiency and support communitybased care. Enables interoperability, AIdriven insight and the shared EPR that underpin consistent, proactive clinical practice. Education, Research and Innovation: Ensures staff are trained for future models of care and enables rapid adoption of evidencebased improvements. Embeds research and innovation into routine practice to improve outcomes and support continuous development. Partnerships: Connects clinical teams with primary care, community services, mental health, social care and voluntary partners to deliver integrated pathways. Strengthens coproduction with patients and reduces fragmentation across the system. Reporting & relationshipsYou will work closely with UHL/UHN clinical executives, CMG leadership teams and One Digital colleagues; partner with ICSs across LLR and Northamptonshire; and engage with regional/national networks (e.g., East Midlands Cancer Alliance). You will provide assurance to our Executives via an agreed governance process.