Job summary

Main area

Population Health

Grade

NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 2 (MT02)

Contract

Fixed term: 6 months (0.4 WTE for 6months or 0.2 WTE for 12months)

Hours

Part time
Flexible working

15 hours per week (1 or 2 days per week)

Job ref

197-RF8139

Employer: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Laurence House
Town: Catford
Salary: £44,439 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2026 09:00
Interview date: 07/05/2026

Population Health – Clinical Fellow (Health Inequality)

NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 2 (MT02)

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Result Areas & Performance:

· To agree the rationale and drivers for exploring population health ideas/ problem statements

· To establish how our information management system could support local work and translate data into actionable insights

To engage with clinical leads to set up and lead any working groups required to drive forward and manage the projects
To agree the characteristics and activity to case-find patients
To agree what the expected outcomes would be for projects
To support the development of a dashboard (or other tools if required) for end-users to support case-finding based on the above criteria
To agree the relevant interventions with colleagues based on the areas where the data suggests there is room for improvement
Facilitate MDT discussions as required
To agree how to realise benefits and monitor those benefits
To agree how they would embed the work as BAU
To present project(s) as and when requested
To consider wider dissemination of their project(s) through write-ups or sharing with other partners

Experience, Skills and Abilities

· The post-holder will have experience working within health and social care, contributing to the delivery of high-quality care with an interest in acquiring a population health approach to help transform healthcare for the future

Hold a master’s degree in a clinical field or equivalent knowledge/ experience
The post-holder will be required to ensure effective partnership working with stakeholders to ensure timely responses and the delivery of project aims and outcomes
The post-holder will be required to work to tight deadlines and produce high quality and accurate results.
To be able to work on their own initiative to identify gaps in access to health, health outcomes, and experiences for different patient cohorts within the population, and propose ways to explore them while tailoring findings to the needs and priorities of stakeholders.
To work closely with CESEL facilitators, HEFs, the ARRS team, SPIN Fellows, community organizations/champions, and the community of practice leads for Health Equity across the boroughs to help critically appraise population health data and make it more useful for practical work planning.
To be able to prioritise their work effectively.
The post-holder must have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing at all levels and be able to respond and perform under continuous pressure.
The role requires the post-holder to be highly skilled in project management and administrative duties, to be versatile and deal with difficult situations.
To have a good general knowledge of the technical requirements of the systems used in primary and secondary care and be able to relay detailed information of a technical nature to both internal and external personnel.

Financial

The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring value for money on agreed budgets and the timely delivery of projects.
To support processes aimed at improving financial information and budgetary control and to ensure that all assets operated by the Services are utilised effectively

Partnerships

Communications and Relationships

The post-holder will work closely with Lewisham Population Health and Care team, as well as wider stakeholders to develop projects. Organisations include:

o Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT)

o London Borough of Lewisham (LBL)

o South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)

o One Health Lewisham (OHL – GP federation including all practices in Lewisham)

o Cerner (PH&C system provider)

o South East London Integrated Care System (SEL ICS)

o Clinical fellows, including SPIN and GP fellows

o Lewisham Health Equity Fellows

o Clinical leads across acute and primary care

o Nursing staff

o Allied Health Professionals

o Consultants

o Service Management Teams

o We are establishing a community of practice for our fellows to support collaboration and spread best practice

General Information

Review of this job description

This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. To be reviewed in conjunction with the post-holder on a regular basis.

Confidentiality

The post-holder must ensure that personal information for patients, members of staff and all other individuals is accurate, up to date, kept secure and confidential at all times in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998, the Caldicott principles and the common law duty of confidentiality. The post-holder must follow the record keeping guidelines established by the Trust to ensure compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Data Protection Act

All staff who contributes to patients’ care records are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, the Trust’s Records Management Policy. Staff should be aware that patients’ care records throughout the Trust will be subject to regular audit.

All staff who have access to patients’ care records have a responsibility to ensure that these are maintained efficiently and that confidentiality is protected in line with the Trust’s Code of Confidentiality Policy.

All staff has an obligation to ensure that care records are maintained efficiently and that confidentiality is protected. Staff are also subject to this obligation both on an implied basis and also on the basis that, on accepting their job description, they agree to maintain both patient / client and staff confidentiality.

In addition, all health professionals are advised to compile records on the assumption that they are accessible to patients in line with the Data Protection Act.

Systems and IT skills requirements

All Trust staff needs to have the essential IT skills in order to use the Trust Clinical Information System as well as other required IT related applications in their jobs. Initial and on-going IT applications and IT skills training will be provided to underpin this requirement.

Health & safety

All staff must comply with all Trust Health & Safety Policies and Procedures. Staff must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), and to ensure that agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees, patients and visitors.

Professional registration

i) If you are employed in an area of work which requires membership of a professional body in order to practice (e.g. Nursing & Midwifery Council for nurses), it is a condition precedent of your employment to maintain membership of such a professional body. It is also your responsibility to comply with the relevant body’s code of practice. Your manager will be able to advise you on which, if any, professional body of which you must be a member.

ii) You are required to advise the Trust if your professional body in any way limits or changes the terms of your registration.

iii) Failure to remain registered or to comply with the relevant code of practice may result in temporary downgrading, suspension from duty and/or disciplinary action, which may result in the termination of your employment.

iv) If you are required to have registration with a particular professional body or to have specific qualifications you must notify your manager on appointment of such fact and provide him or her with documentary evidence of them before your employment commences or, at the latest, on your first day of employment. Furthermore throughout your employment with the Trust, you are required on demand by your manager to provide him or her with documentary evidence of your registration with any particular professional body or in respect of any required qualifications.

Risk management

All Trust employees are accountable, through the terms and conditions of their employment, professional regulations, clinical governance and statutory health and safety regulations, and are responsible for reporting incidents, being aware of the risk management strategy and emergency procedures and attendance at training as required.

All staff has a responsibility to manage risk within their sphere of responsibility. It is a statutory duty to take reasonable care of their own safety and the safety of others who may be affected by acts or omissions.

All managers throughout the organisation have a responsibility to ensure that policies and procedures are followed, that staff receives appropriate training that a local risk register is developed and monitored on a quarterly basis and any changes reported to the Clinical Risk Management Group and Strategic Risk Management Committee.

Managers are responsible for implementing and monitoring any identified risk management control measures within their designated area/s and scope of responsibility. In situations where significant risks have been identified and where local control measures are considered to be potentially inadequate, managers are responsible for bringing these risks to the attention of the Clinical Risk Management Group and Strategic Risk Management Committee if resolution has not been satisfactorily achieved.

Person specification

Academic

Essential criteria

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in any clinical field
Evidence of continuing professional development
Evidence of demonstrable interest in population health, its scientific research and evidence-based practice

Desirable criteria

Additional qualifications (e.g., degrees and postgraduate qualifications)
Conference participation and/or presentations
Has contributed to research
Academic publications (e.g., peer reviewed journals, abstracts, posters, book chapters)

Experience

Essential criteria

Registered healthcare professional with experience of providing NHS services
Leadership responsibility in current role
Currently working in an NHS health services role relevant to population health
Contribution to delivery of high-quality care (e.g., supporting clinical services, experience of clinical audit cycles, delivering interventions to improve outcomes, public/patient involvement, quality improvement)
Evidence of satisfactory career progression

Desirable criteria

Significant period working within health and social care in Greenwich or Lewisham boroughs
Can evidence contribution to successful service improvement (e.g., achieving service change, Trust level awards, HSJ/BMJ awards, etc.)

Skills

Essential criteria

Able to search for and critically review literature, protocols and guidelines, Organisational skills, including time management and project completion
Delivered presentations to a large audience
Effective team player
Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills

Desirable criteria

Gain exposure to methodologies, including data analysis (e.g., Power BI, and allocate time for relevant courses.
Data-analysis: able to understand and manipulate data (including familiarisation with statistics/charts and word processing packages) and draw insights
Evidence of innovation and solution development

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.