Clinical Lead

Job Purpose

We’re looking for a Clinical Lead to help drive the mobilisation and delivery of our Supply Chain Modernisation Programme at NHS Supply Chain.

In this pivotal role, you’ll provide senior clinical leadership, ensuring patient safety, quality of care, and regulatory standards are embedded throughout programme design and delivery.

As the link between NHS stakeholders and NHSSC teams, you’ll bring clinical insight, strategic alignment, and assurance to a major transformation shaping the future of our supply chain model.

Every day you will…

• Serve as the clinical voice of the Transformation Programme, Lead clinical input across programme governance, design forums, mobilisation activity, and key decision‑making groups.
• Partner with stakeholder engagement leads to coordinate activity with NHS operational teams, including clinical, finance, procurement, and transformation.
• Work with experts across Operations, Professional Services, Patient Safety, Quality, Innovation, and Regulatory teams to ensure programme outputs meet required standards.
• Embed clinical safety principles, regulatory compliance, and best‑practice guidance from programme design through to delivery and adoption.
• Collaborate with regulatory leads to apply compliance frameworks and proactively identify risk.
• Align programme deliverables to Strategic Plan priorities, ensuring patient‑centred design and service transformation underpin all decisions.
• Support change management within the Clinical Directorate, contributing to readiness, engagement, and adoption planning.
• Contribute to process design, requirements gathering, and detailed design sessions to ensure clinical considerations are fully integrated.
• Track engagement, readiness, and adoption across clinical user groups, escalating risks where appropriate.

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, expertise, and impact—so we offer much more than a competitive package:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you flexibility to collaborate both on site and remotely.
• Recognition of your contributions through annual bonus schemes, long‑service awards, and VIP colleague awards.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• Continuous professional development, including in‑house learning, clinical leadership development and access to external qualifications.
• A focus on your wellbeing, including 1 day paid wellbeing leave and free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme access.
• A generous pension scheme (we contribute 12% when you contribute 6%).
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, including life assurance, health cash plans, dental cover, critical illness, income protection and additional pension options.
• 2 paid volunteering days, supporting your ability to give back to your community.
• Discounts including Blue Light Card and national NHS discount schemes.

NHS Supply Chain – who are we?

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

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, working with more than 1,000 suppliers and delivering over 8 million orders every year to more than 17,000 locations.

By doing this on behalf of the NHS, we enable NHS staff to focus on what matters most—providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Extensive senior clinical leadership experience within the NHS or large-scale healthcare transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance, patient safety principles, and regulatory standards.
• Ability to represent clinical priorities at programme board level and influence strategic decision‑making.
• Experience working across complex stakeholder groups, with excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong ability to translate clinical requirements into actionable programme design and deliverables.
• Experience with change management, adoption, and mobilisation activities within clinical environments.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-focused mindset.
• Understanding of NHS operational, procurement, or supply chain functions (desirable).
• Recognised clinical qualification with active professional registration and evidence of continued development.

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where differences are valued and celebrated, enabling everyone to thrive.

If this role feels like the right step but you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply—your experience may be a great fit.

If you need support with your application, our Talent Acquisition Team are here to help.

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. 

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