Clinical Lead Clinical and Professional Standards Management

Main area Clinical & Professional Standards Management Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 16 hours per week Job
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Employer Central East Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Central East ICB Town Ely, Cambridge Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59

We are Central East ICB, the new organisation entrusted with serving more than 3.5 million people across Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Hertfordshire.

We are responsible for making sure that the NHS can continue to support our community – now, and in the future. Everything we do will be guided by our core purpose: to do what best serves the population of this area.

We promise to focus on what makes the biggest difference to people’s lives – acting earlier to help prevent illness and detect disease and making it easier for our community to get the health care they need, closer to home, whenever that’s possible.

Read about our priorities in our strategy document, Our Way .

The Clinical Lead Clinical and Professional Standards ensures excellent clinical and professional standards of registrant staff employed directly by the ICB and also ensure appropriate networking and contracting with providers and NHSE.

They will work across all registrant profession

• To work with clinical colleagues across the ICB and partners organisations to deliver improvements in clinical effectiveness and efficiency
• To develop the ICB to become a Designated Body for doctors and ensure that processes are in place for a successful function.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership for ICB employed staff including support in addressing professional performance issues including complaints, untoward incidents and poor performance involving responsible officers and liaising with the GMC and other relevant independent professional regulators as appropriate
• To ensure that ICB appraisals and professional appraisals relate appropriately.
• To professionally lead a continuous learning culture across registrants in the ICB.
• Work collaboratively with the Quality Team to support investigations into complaints, incidents, patient-safety concerns, professional concerns and other quality matters. This will include contributing clinical expertise to investigation planning, terms of reference, evidence review, interviews, analysis of contributory factors, drafting and quality assuring reports, and identifying and monitoring recommendations, learning and improvement actions.
• To liaise with Strategy Neighbourhoods and Partnerships, Contracting and Strategic Planning and Commissioning as required.

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people’s differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.

We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including…