Clinical Shift Lead
Inspire teams to deliver safe, compassionate care.
NHS 111 Clinical Shift Lead.

Step into a new challenge and help shape the way NHS 111 delivers patient support. You will guide teams and contribute to safe, compassionate care at scale.

As a Clinical Shift Lead, you will:

• Provide visible clinical leadership throughout each shift, supporting the safe, effective and timely delivery of NHS 111 and Integrated Urgent Care services.
• Coordinate and deploy clinical resources according to patient demand, clinical competence, service priorities and organisational risk.
• Use clinical, operational and performance data to identify emerging risks and support evidence-based decisions.
• Monitor clinical performance throughout each shift, providing coaching, mentoring, supervision and constructive feedback.
• Support a culture of psychological safety, staff wellbeing, learning and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to service improvement, surge planning, business continuity and major incident response.
• Build effective relationships across the wider urgent and emergency care system.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Current professional registration as a Nurse, Paramedic or Pharmacist, with degree-level education or equivalent and evidence of ongoing post-registration clinical development.
• Previous clinical leadership experience, ideally at management level.
• Experience working within a healthcare environment providing telephone triage and/or clinical assessment.
• Accredited NHS Pathways or PaCCs user experience, with NHS Pathways Coach accreditation desirable.
• Strong clinical knowledge and experience of working within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• Experience of performance coaching and supporting staff development.
• Commitment to working flexibly across service and rota requirements, including unsocial hours and travel between sites when required.

Anonymous Recruitment Process
This vacancy is managed anonymously. Please do not attach a CV or additional documents; complete the online application form fully. Apply through our website.

Salary: Pro Rata Per Annum
Job Reference: dhuhealthcare/TP/147/1198
Closing Date: 29 November 2026
Location: Quad, Chesterfield, S49 1HQ
Please note, the length of this secondment is 6 months.