Job summary
NHS England has worked with stakeholders from across the system to develop the NHS Long Term Plan. The Plan ensures that the NHS has a bright future ahead of it. Its ambitions range from providing high quality lifesaving treatment and care for patients and their families, to reducing pressure on hard working NHS staff and investing in exciting new technologies.
In order to realise the potential of the Long Term Plan, the new NHS England needs strong specialist clinical leadership and advice.
The Medical Directorate has been created to support regional colleagues and local health systems in collectively delivering our responsibilities and the ambitions as set out in several publications including the NHS Long Term Plan, UEC Elective Recovery Plan, Workforce Plan and the Operational Planning Guidance. We provide leadership to improve outcomes and promote quality. We also provide professional and clinical leadership across the system as well as designing, developing and advising on clinical policy.
The post holder will be based with the diabetes team but expected to work closely with leaders in the NHS England Prevention and Long Term Conditions programme to ensure this work aligns with NHS England's priorities.
Main duties of the job
The role of the National Specialty Advisor (NSA) is to support senior leaders including Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), National Clinical Directors and Medical Directors to provide clinical advice in four respects:
- Clinical advice to drive transformation of services;
- Clinical advice to support identification and delivery of our corporate clinical priorities (at national and regional level);
- Clinical advice to support the commissioning or procurement of services; and
- Clinical advice on ad hoc issues to support parliamentary accountability.
About us
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS agreat place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holders will support senior leaders with the provision of clinical advice and leadership through:
- Collaborative working with programme SROs, clinical directors and other clinical leads across the organisation (e.g. GIRFT clinical leads, workforce leads and NHS Impact programmes) in their speciality area to ensure that all work programmes are aligned with national policy and strategy. This will involve working with other NHS England specialist teams within the prevention and long term conditions portfolio to maximise opportunities for the effective management of multi-morbidity across clinical pathways.
- Being a valuable source of knowledge on the latest scientific advances and providing clinical expertise on cross cutting themes including digital healthcare, innovation, addressing unwarranted variation and tackling health inequalities within the field.
- Support policy and strategy teams with horizon scanning and in the successful design and delivery of interventions and resources to support system, professional and care pathway changes at a national and local level.
- Collaborative working with other stakeholders in developing and delivering the programmes ambitions, improving the quality and value of healthcare services and ensuring programmes are clinically focused and credible
- Providing advice and insight to support and promote integrated care which is based on the needs of particular population groups.
The appointment is offered on a part time basis as outlined above. Please be aware that the number of sessions may be adjusted above baseline depending upon business needs.
SecondmentsApplicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only,agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holders will support senior leaders with the provision of clinical advice and leadership through:
- Collaborative working with programme SROs, clinical directors and other clinical leads across the organisation (e.g. GIRFT clinical leads, workforce leads and NHS Impact programmes) in their speciality area to ensure that all work programmes are aligned with national policy and strategy. This will involve working with other NHS England specialist teams within the prevention and long term conditions portfolio to maximise opportunities for the effective management of multi-morbidity across clinical pathways.
- Being a valuable source of knowledge on the latest scientific advances and providing clinical expertise on cross cutting themes including digital healthcare, innovation, addressing unwarranted variation and tackling health inequalities within the field.
- Support policy and strategy teams with horizon scanning and in the successful design and delivery of interventions and resources to support system, professional and care pathway changes at a national and local level.
- Collaborative working with other stakeholders in developing and delivering the programmes ambitions, improving the quality and value of healthcare services and ensuring programmes are clinically focused and credible
- Providing advice and insight to support and promote integrated care which is based on the needs of particular population groups.
The appointment is offered on a part time basis as outlined above. Please be aware that the number of sessions may be adjusted above baseline depending upon business needs.
SecondmentsApplicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only,agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- educated to degree level in a relevant medical/ scientific/nursing and midwifery/ allied health/pharmacy/dental discipline
Knowledge
Essential
- oExperienced clinical practitioner with credibility and the ability to command the respect of all clinical and non-clinical professionals across primary, secondary and community care
- oLeadership experience in the NHS/DHSC
- oSignificant experience of working at a national or sub-national level as a clinical leader in the speciality
Skills
Essential
- oExcellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high performing teams
- oUse resourcefulness and judgment to navigate and negotiate across the NHS and wider health, social care and political landscape
Values
Essential
- oConsistently puts patients at the heart of decision making
- oDemonstrable commitment to and focus on quality promoting high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- oDemonstrable commitment to focusing on both the mental and physical health of the service users
Equality, Diversion and Inclusion
Essential
- oValues diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- oExperience of leading improvements in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with good working relationships in employment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- educated to degree level in a relevant medical/ scientific/nursing and midwifery/ allied health/pharmacy/dental discipline
Knowledge
Essential
- oExperienced clinical practitioner with credibility and the ability to command the respect of all clinical and non-clinical professionals across primary, secondary and community care
- oLeadership experience in the NHS/DHSC
- oSignificant experience of working at a national or sub-national level as a clinical leader in the speciality
Skills
Essential
- oExcellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high performing teams
- oUse resourcefulness and judgment to navigate and negotiate across the NHS and wider health, social care and political landscape
Values
Essential
- oConsistently puts patients at the heart of decision making
- oDemonstrable commitment to and focus on quality promoting high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- oDemonstrable commitment to focusing on both the mental and physical health of the service users
Equality, Diversion and Inclusion
Essential
- oValues diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- oExperience of leading improvements in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with good working relationships in employment
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
