Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Partnership Lead
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-EC2894-I-A
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE Office
- Town
- Nationally
- Salary
- £79,504 - £91,609 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
New Hospital Programme Clinical Partnership Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
Job overview
One of NHP’s strategic objectives is to ensure all new hospitals integrate innovative national standards for healthcare infrastructure and care delivery. This will need to be achieved via partnerships with other national programmes e.g. the Getting it Right First Time (GiRFT) Programme
The NHP Clinical Partnerships Lead will provide senior clinical leadership to embed these principles and standards across the New Hospitals Programme, ensuring alignment with national policy, clinical priorities, and system-wide objectives.
The post holder will lead through strategic influence and collaboration, providing expert clinical advice, convening and connecting programmes and stakeholders, and delivering robust challenge and assurance. This will be underpinned by targeted improvement support to drive measurable improvements in quality, safety, and patient outcomes in new hospitals.
Main duties of the job
The NHP Clinical Partnerships Lead will provide senior professional leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality patient care across the New Hospitals Programme.
The post holder will begin by supporting the GiRFT national reviews ensuring that GiRFT principles are translated into the design, development, and delivery of New Hospitals Programme Schemes.
Working across senior leaders in the Healthcare Directorate and across NHP and system boundaries, the postholder will influence strategic decisions, and support the consistent application of clinical standards. Through expert advice, assurance, and targeted improvement support, the postholder will drive improvements in care quality, safety, and patient outcomes.
Working for our organisation
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
For more information on the NHP programme
Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current Clinical Registration: NMC/GMC/HCPC or Pharmacist registration
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist clinical area
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working in a senior patient facing clinical leadership role in the past five years.
- Direct experience, within the past five years – of working at band 8 level or above in establishing a new healthcare facility or new system wide clinical service (with evidence of successful delivery)
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Demonstrable senior management experience across systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
Desirable criteria
- Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Najwa Serroukh
- Job title
- Resourcing Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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