Job summary
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 respiratory 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 respiratory care. You will bring the influence, judgement and collaborative leadership needed to deliver change across London's complex health and care system.

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.

Please be aware that should you be successful in this position, you will be hired to the job title of Clinical Director and this job title is advertised to attract the right skills needed for the role.

Main duties of the job
Working with other Clinical Network Directors and strategic partners, the post-holder will support regional implementation of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, advancing the shift towards prevention-focused, neighbourhood-based and digitally enabled care.

About us
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.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for external candidates.

Details
Date posted: 05 November 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £105,000 a year pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 990-LDN-EC6217-I-E-A

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.

Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)

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

Knowledge and experience (Essential)

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

Skills and capabilities (Essential)

• Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting

Analytical skills (Essential)

• 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

Communication skills (Essential)

• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required

Management Skills (Essential)

• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required

Values and behaviours (Essential)

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

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: NHS England
Address: 10 South Colannade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/

For questions about the job, contact: Head of Clinical Networks - London, Shaun Crowe, shaun.crowe@nhs.net, 07787105622

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