Clinical Fellow – Cancer Care pathways & Products Strategy

Job Title: Clinical Fellow – Cancer Care pathways & Products Strategy

Function: Clinical

Location: Hybrid

Contract type: FTC – 12mths

Salary: £65,920 with the potential to rise to £77,533 over 3 years

Closing Date: 29.06.2026

NHS Supply Chain are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Clinical Fellow with a strong interest in cancer care and service transformation to join our team. This role focuses on analysing and improving cancer pathways from diagnosis through to treatment, with particular attention to how emerging service models—such as Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) — will shape future delivery. 

Working in collaboration with our Commercial clinical colleagues, you will be an integral part of the clinical pathway design, product evaluation, and strategic development, contributing to the creation of a core cancer pathway product offering and supporting the development of category strategies that may include medical devices. 

Your work will help drive improvements in the quality of cancer care, ensuring pathways are efficient, evidence-based, and supported by the right products and technologies. 

Every day you will … 

• Analyse and optimise end-to-end cancer pathways (referral to treatment), identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, standardisation, and patient outcomes.
• Evaluate the impact of Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) and support service redesign to enhance early diagnosis and pathway flow.
• Review and assess medical technologies and devices, ensuring alignment with clinical best practice, innovation, and national product specifications.
• Support development of core product offerings and category strategies, ensuring consistent, high-quality care and value for money.
• Engage with clinical, procurement, and policy stakeholders, translating insights into actionable recommendations to strengthen service delivery.

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards. 
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree (or equivalent) with clinical experience in oncology, cancer care, or a related specialty.

• Strong understanding of cancer pathways, diagnostics, and treatment models.

• Ability to critically analyse clinical pathways and identify improvement opportunities. 

• Experience or knowledge of Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) or similar models. 

• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at Careers@supplychain.nhs.uk 

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.

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