Clinical Lead, Healthcare

Overview

Job Title
:
Clinical Lead
Function
:
Supply Chain Modernisation
Location
:
Flexible on location, but required in Nottingham
Contract Type
:
Permanent/Hybrid
Salary
: £75,512 with potential to rise to £88,837 over 3 years
Closing Date
:
Wednesday, 4th of January 2026

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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…