New Hospital Programme Clinical Partnership Lead | NHS England


Company:	NHS England
Salary:	£79,504 - £91,609 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Nationally, SE1 8UG
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	7 Jul 2026
Closing date:	6 Aug 2026

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Summary

One of NHP’s strategic objectives is to ensure all new hospitals integrate innovative national standards for healthcare infrastructure and care delivery. This will need to be achieved via partnerships with other national programmes e.g. the Getting it Right First Time (GiRFT) Programme

The NHP Clinical Partnerships Lead will provide senior clinical leadership to embed these principles and standards across the New Hospitals Programme, ensuring alignment with national policy, clinical priorities, and system-wide objectives.

The post holder will lead through strategic influence and collaboration, providing expert clinical advice, convening and connecting programmes and stakeholders, and delivering robust challenge and assurance. This will be underpinned by targeted improvement support to drive measurable improvements in quality, safety, and patient outcomes in new hospitals.

The NHP Clinical Partnerships Lead will provide senior professional leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality patient care across the New Hospitals Programme.

The post holder will begin by supporting the GiRFT national reviews ensuring that GiRFT principles are translated into the design, development, and delivery of New Hospitals Programme Schemes.

Working across senior leaders in the Healthcare Directorate and across NHP and system boundaries, the postholder will influence strategic decisions, and support the consistent application of clinical standards. Through expert advice, assurance, and targeted improvement support, the postholder will drive improvements in care quality, safety, and patient outcomes.

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 announcedthat 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.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

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.

For more information on the NHP programme

Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Jul 2026

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