Clinical Fellow – Pathology

Job Title: Clinical Fellow – Pathology

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 a motivated and detail-oriented Clinical Fellow with experience in pathology and diagnostics to join our team. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to improving the quality, consistency, and clinical relevance of products available on the market. 

You will play a key role in reviewing, categorising, and evaluating diagnostic and pathology-related products, ensuring that technical specifications and clinical claims are accurate, robust, and aligned with best practice. Working collaboratively with our Commercial Diagnostics team, you will directly support efforts to reduce variability and improve outcomes across clinical environments. 

Every day you will … 

• Product Evaluation & Review: Assess pathology and diagnostic products for clinical relevance, safety, and effectiveness, including critical analysis of technical documentation, claims, and supporting evidence.
• Product Classification & Frameworks: Develop and maintain structured categorisation frameworks, ensuring consistent product classification and terminology across systems and datasets.
• Quality Assurance & Improvement: Identify data inconsistencies, gaps, and risks, contributing to initiatives that enhance quality standards and reduce variability across the market.
• Clinical & Technical Expertise: Interpret complex clinical and technical data to inform decision-making, support benchmarking, and provide expert input into product and innovation assessments.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Guidance: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (clinicians, scientists, regulatory specialists) and contribute to the development of best practice guidance and standards.

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?

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• Degree (or equivalent) with clinical experience in pathology or laboratory medicine, plus strong understanding of diagnostic pathways and clinical interpretation 
• Proven ability to critically evaluate clinical evidence and technical documentation with high attention to detail 
• Excellent organisational and written communication skills 
• Desirable experience in product evaluation, regulation, quality assurance, and familiarity with IVD products and requirements 
• Interest or experience in data classification, healthcare improvement, standardisation, and reducing variation

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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