Clinical Director (Clinical Networks) - Diabetes
The closing date is 19 November 2026

Are you a senior clinician with the strategic vision, credibility and experience to lead improvement across London?

NHS England are recruiting a Clinical Director working in London's health and care system to provide visible strategic leadership across the diabetes pathway.

Working with clinical leaders, Integrated Care Boards, providers, patient representative groups, Health Innovation Networks and other strategic partners, you will lead and design a London-wide programme focused on improving clinical outcomes, reducing unwarranted variation and supporting the spread and adoption of evidence-based practice and innovation. You will provide expert clinical advice, strategic leadership and act as an ambassador for clinical improvement across London.

You will be a clinically qualified senior leader with GMC or other appropriate professional registration and a licence to practise, with significant NHS leadership experience and recognised expertise in diabetes care. You will bring the influence, judgement and collaborative leadership needed to deliver change across London's complex health and care system. This is why strategic and operational leadership experience in London is important.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the improvement of outcomes and experience of care for the London population and to coordinate action to reduce health inequalities.

The time commitment for this role is 0.1 WTE.

Main duties of the job
Working with other Clinical Network Directors and strategic partners, the post-holder will contribute to the regional delivery of the 10-Year Health Plan and implementation of the Cardiovascular Modern Service Framework.

Job responsibilities

• To provide expert clinical advice and leadership in the desired disease or pathway specific area
• To provide strategic leadership as part of the senior management team of the Clinical Network Programme
• To co-develop an annual work programme that focuses on improving quality and clinical outcomes for patients
• To support, review and sign off products developed as part of the annual work programme
• To provide clinical leadership, advice, and input within the organisation, working with stakeholders to support strategic work streams
• To be a credible ambassador for the regional office, and build relationships across directorates, including with national clinical leads
• To support the Medical Directorate to develop operating systems and processes which are clinically driven
• To support the organisations way of working, model its values and champion the NHS constitution

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.

Qualifications

• Medical Qualification
• Registration with a Royal College, Faculty, or equivalent professional body

Knowledge and experience

• In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in an appropriate specialty
• Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification

Skills and capabilities

• Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical)
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required

Values and behaviours

• Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients

Working pattern: Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number: 990-LDN-EC6217-E
Contract: Permanent

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