Job summary
Please note
this role is not in a clinical setting - We are excited to offer this unique
opportunity to help shape the future of the clinical engagement service of NHS
Supply Chain across the NHS. The c.12 month secondment will draw on
candidates significant clinical experience and expertise. The clinical
engagement function brings clinical and product expertise to the forefront of
national procurement. In doing so it ensures product assurance, reviews
innovation and ensures that clinical teams across the NHS are provided with all
relevant information required to make informed decisions when undertaking
contracting activity with the market.
Holding
credible practical experience, product expertise, being knowledgeable of the
patient pathways, Speaking the language and ensuring clinician and patient
needs are at the heart of the decision making processes, are key foundations on
which this service will be built.
We welcome
applications from across the NHS landscape in England.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Senior
Leadership Team (SLT), the Clinical Engagement Lead (CEL) will report directly
into the Director for Medical Technology in NHS Supply Chain. Alongside
others in the SLT, the CEL will offer expertise and advice, which in turn will
help to continually shape the national category strategy for all cardiology
related products and services provided by the market and required by NHS
organisations. In doing so, successful candidates will have BAU
activities but also focus on some key projects:
About us
We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. We make sure the products we supply are always safe, quality assured and delivered efficiently.
Were always listening to the people who use our products, so that were aware of the changing needs across the NHS. In all, we serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres. We also manage relationships with more than a thousand suppliers, delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations.
And by doing all of this on behalf of the NHS, this gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of proving excellent patient care.
Our, Purpose, Vision and Strategy are clear. We provide direction, leadership, and commercial focus to improve health outcomes.
Vision: To make it easier for the NHS to put patients first
Purpose: Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health
Values:
- Be Authentic
- Be Inclusive
- Be Driven
- Be Enterprising
- Be The Difference
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties:
As part of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the Clinical Engagement Lead (CEL) will report directly into the Director for Medical Technology in NHS Supply Chain. Alongside others in the SLT, the CEL will offer expertise and advice, which in turn will help to continually shape the national category strategy for all cardiology related products and services provided by the market and required by NHS organisations. In doing so, successful candidates will have BAU activities but also focus on some key projects:
- To advise and support our management team to recruit and interview, and establish the Clinical Engagement team covering this product space. These individuals will be regionally based with responsibility to clinical departments within a given area of the English NHS.
- Along with the SLT, help shape the overall engagement process (between NHS Supply Chain and NHS stakeholders) for the wider Cardiology team. This will be done whilst working closely with National stakeholder groups across NHS England, clinical and industry associations.
- Working with our BI team to further develop our established product categorisation for enhanced clinical analytics and insights, producing detailed functional attributes for all products in scope, and reviewing the full raft of product, services and innovation scope of what can be offered under contract. Data and insights will be at the core of the information utilised for engagement and as such needs to clearly represent clinical practice and product efficacy.
Business As Usual support:
- Support for the category teams in delivering relevant projects; offering advice on clinically relevant subject matters.
- Reviewing innovation from across the market.
Line management duties
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties:
As part of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the Clinical Engagement Lead (CEL) will report directly into the Director for Medical Technology in NHS Supply Chain. Alongside others in the SLT, the CEL will offer expertise and advice, which in turn will help to continually shape the national category strategy for all cardiology related products and services provided by the market and required by NHS organisations. In doing so, successful candidates will have BAU activities but also focus on some key projects:
- To advise and support our management team to recruit and interview, and establish the Clinical Engagement team covering this product space. These individuals will be regionally based with responsibility to clinical departments within a given area of the English NHS.
- Along with the SLT, help shape the overall engagement process (between NHS Supply Chain and NHS stakeholders) for the wider Cardiology team. This will be done whilst working closely with National stakeholder groups across NHS England, clinical and industry associations.
- Working with our BI team to further develop our established product categorisation for enhanced clinical analytics and insights, producing detailed functional attributes for all products in scope, and reviewing the full raft of product, services and innovation scope of what can be offered under contract. Data and insights will be at the core of the information utilised for engagement and as such needs to clearly represent clinical practice and product efficacy.
Business As Usual support:
- Support for the category teams in delivering relevant projects; offering advice on clinically relevant subject matters.
- Reviewing innovation from across the market.
Line management duties
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- We are looking for a senior professional with managerial and strategic experience, and who has exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. A person with the ability to process information, understand clinical needs, drivers, patient demographics and user experience. An individual who can gain credibility with clinicians due to product and clinical knowledge, and professional experience.
- A rounded understanding of procurement and contracting would be advantageous although this role is supported by procurement professionals.
- A deep understanding of the cardiac theatre and patient pathway through experience, and importantly cardiac product knowledge, is essential.
- Have an established network of peers within their clinical environment, and/or with products industry.
- Experience of managing projects and understanding how products are used in practice, considering varying sub-speciality areas of care in this category, which includes all elective and emergency care pathways.
- IT capable, (in particular with Excel) with an analytic and attention to detail competence. Training and support is given for those who need it, but a propensity is important.
- Willingness to travel, you will already be a car driver but depending on the meeting locations, travel may also be by public transport mileage and train travel is expensed.
- We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is comfortable with managing their own diary and driving a key set of agendas. Being able to take on a new challenge and develop expertise in relation to products is key.
- This role will require an ability to conduct detailed work at a computer for long periods and so a mental capacity for this whilst working remotely is essential.
- Confident with great energy and an engaging manner.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- We are looking for a senior professional with managerial and strategic experience, and who has exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. A person with the ability to process information, understand clinical needs, drivers, patient demographics and user experience. An individual who can gain credibility with clinicians due to product and clinical knowledge, and professional experience.
- A rounded understanding of procurement and contracting would be advantageous although this role is supported by procurement professionals.
- A deep understanding of the cardiac theatre and patient pathway through experience, and importantly cardiac product knowledge, is essential.
- Have an established network of peers within their clinical environment, and/or with products industry.
- Experience of managing projects and understanding how products are used in practice, considering varying sub-speciality areas of care in this category, which includes all elective and emergency care pathways.
- IT capable, (in particular with Excel) with an analytic and attention to detail competence. Training and support is given for those who need it, but a propensity is important.
- Willingness to travel, you will already be a car driver but depending on the meeting locations, travel may also be by public transport mileage and train travel is expensed.
- We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is comfortable with managing their own diary and driving a key set of agendas. Being able to take on a new challenge and develop expertise in relation to products is key.
- This role will require an ability to conduct detailed work at a computer for long periods and so a mental capacity for this whilst working remotely is essential.
- Confident with great energy and an engaging manner.
