Head of Clinical Effectiveness Team

Head of Clinical Effectiveness Team

Job closing date: 02 June 2026.

The postholder will lead and coordinate the Clinical Effectiveness Programme (CEP) across North West London, providing senior leadership and strategic oversight of clinical effectiveness activities.The North West London (NWL) CEP leads system‑wide clinical quality improvement across NWL, using primary care and population health data to understand variation, reduce inequalities, and support better outcomes for local residents. While its core focus is NWL, the programme is not limited to this geography and its approach can be extended across the wider West North London Integrated Care System (ICS) footprint where beneficial. Working as part of a provider‑hosted IC, CEP collaborates across neighbourhood, borough, and NWL‑wide structures to turn data into meaningful insights that improve everyday clinical practice.

Main duties of the job

• The postholder will oversee the Clinical Facilitation Manager and team of Clinical Facilitators, the CEP Programme Manager, and the Senior Information Manager, enabling these roles to operate cohesively, effectively and in line with agreed system ambitions.
• The postholder will provide strategic, analytical and programme expertise to ensure that CEP has the capability, capacity and coordination required to deliver high‑quality, evidence‑based clinical effectiveness work across borough, multi‑borough and system levels.

Responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Lead the development and delivery of a coherent programme strategy for clinical effectiveness across NWL, ensuring alignment with ICS priorities, the NHS Long Term Plan, prevention, early intervention, improved access and reducing health inequalities.
2. Use population health intelligence, stratified data and analytical insight to shape targeted interventions that address unwarranted variation and improve outcomes for disadvantaged groups.
3. Embed inclusive, culturally competent and coproduced approaches in programme design and delivery, ensuring meaningful engagement of diverse communities and Experts by Experience.
4. Plan, design, implement and evaluate programmes using recognised improvement methodologies (e.g., logic models, theories of change, KPIs, PDSA), ensuring measurable impact and sustainable system‑wide change.
5. Develop robust business cases, investment proposals and commissioning recommendations with clear scope, quality standards, measurable benefits and financial implications.
6. Manage programme budgets and resources, ensuring effective financial controls and alignment with governance and organisational priorities.

Communications and Relationships

1. Lead identification, mapping and strategic engagement of senior stakeholders across the IC, including clinical leaders, operational managers, commissioners, system partners, VCSE organisations and residents.
2. Oversee governance of culturally competent engagement and coproduction, ensuring communities meaningfully influence strategic priorities, service design and evaluation.
3. Act as the senior liaison between central, borough and place‑based teams, ensuring alignment with strategic plans, consistent communication and coordinated delivery.
4. Lead collaborative working across IC organisations and national partners, including NHS England, provider collaboratives and local authorities.
5. Provide authoritative analysis and strategic recommendations to executive leaders, programme boards and governance groups, articulating risks, dependencies and change impacts to inform decision‑making.

Staff Management and Leadership

1. Provide senior, values‑driven leadership aligned with CNWL’s SCARF principles, modelling professionalism, accountability and continuous improvement.
2. Offer high‑level guidance and assurance to senior clinicians and programme leads to support effective, evidence‑based decision‑making.
3. Support the CEP Programme Manager to deliver high‑quality outputs, manage interdependencies and meet key milestones.
4. Foster a high‑performing, inclusive and culturally competent culture that empowers clinical leaders, programme teams and Experts by Experience to collaborate on service redesign and evaluation.
5. Ensure effective cross‑system coordination and delivery of clinical effectiveness priorities through strong relationships, credibility and strategic engagement.

Project Management

1. Provide strategic oversight of CEP initiatives and wider system clinical effectiveness programmes, ensuring alignment with IC priorities, evidence‑based practice and population health needs.
2. Lead the development of system‑level programme strategies, outcomes frameworks and evaluation approaches that define benefits and guide direction.
3. Shape and steer complex change strategies promoting digital innovation, data‑driven transformation and analytical insight to improve outcomes, pathway quality and efficiency.
4. Oversee programme risks, interdependencies and mitigation planning through robust governance, scenario planning and appropriate escalation.
5. Ensure all digital and quality improvement initiatives align with national interoperability and regulatory standards.
6. Oversee data, insight and analysis functions supporting system assurance, ensuring high‑quality reporting, strong governance and audit‑ready documentation.
7. Apply senior‑level change‑control processes to assess and approve modifications to scope, timelines or resources, ensuring strategic alignment.
8. Provide strategic input into financial planning and investment decisions, working with Finance, Estates, Workforce, IT and Quality to ensure programme alignment with organisational and IC strategies.
9. Ensure compliance with information governance, data protection legislation and clinical quality standards.

Autonomy and Freedom to Act

• Provide autonomous, senior‑level leadership of the NWL Clinical Effectiveness programme, shaping strategic direction and overseeing cross‑system delivery.
• Drive system‑wide improvements in outcomes, prevention, early intervention and equitable access, ensuring alignment with IC and national priorities.
• Model exemplary professional and strategic leadership standards, providing authoritative insight, intelligence and evidence‑based recommendations to senior leaders and governance groups.
• Ensure emerging risks, system pressures and performance issues are identified, analysed and escalated appropriately to enable informed, timely decision‑making.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent level qualification, or demonstrable equivalent senior level experience.
• Evidence of significant and ongoing continuing professional development relevant to programme leadership, transformation, or health system improvement.
• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field (e.g., public health, health management, population health, or health policy).
• Formal qualification in programme or project management (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, Agile).

Experience

• Proven experience of autonomous senior level decision making, with responsibility for shaping programme direction, overseeing delivery, and ensuring alignment with organisational and system governance requirements.
• Proven experience of providing strategic leadership and oversight for large‑scale programmes delivering measurable improvement in outcomes, quality, or population health.
• Experience of working across integrated care systems or system‑wide partnerships, engaging senior clinical, operational, commissioning, and community stakeholders.
• Substantial senior‑level experience of leading complex, multi‑workstream programmes within healthcare or a similarly complex system environment.
• Demonstrated experience of using population health intelligence, analytics, and performance data to shape strategy, prioritise interventions, and address unwarranted variation and inequalities.
• Experience of programme‑level risk, issue, and dependency management, including escalation through formal governance and assurance routes.
• Experience of developing and presenting high‑quality briefings, reports, and strategic recommendations for executive‑level and board‑level decision‑making.
• Experience of managing significant budgets and resources, ensuring financial control, value for money, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Experience of leading and supporting senior clinical and programme leaders, providing direction, assurance, and constructive challenge.
• Experience of leading clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, or population health programmes at scale.
• Experience of working with IC governance structures, including programme boards and executive committees.
• Experience of developing business cases, investment proposals, or commissioning recommendations.

Skills and Knowledge

• Expert knowledge of programme leadership and delivery, including benefits realisation, outcomes frameworks, and evaluation approaches.
• Strong understanding of population health management, health inequalities, prevention, and early intervention at system level.
• Ability to apply improvement methodologies (e.g., logic models, theories of change, KPIs, PDSA) to drive sustainable, system‑wide change.
• Strong understanding of governance, assurance, information governance, and regulatory requirements within the NHS or public sector.
• Ability to lead and influence across organisational boundaries, managing complex stakeholder relationships and competing priorities.
• Knowledge of digital transformation, interoperability standards, and data‑driven service redesign.
• Understanding of commissioning, contracting, and financial planning within the NHS.
• Experience of working with VCSE organisations and Experts by Experience in co‑produced programme design.

Personal Characteristics

• Credible, confident, and values‑driven leader with the ability to operate autonomously at senior system level.
• Demonstrates inclusive, culturally competent leadership and a strong commitment to reducing health inequalities.
• Resilient and effective in highly complex, politically sensitive, and fast‑moving environments.
• Experience of leading culture change or system transformation programmes.
• Coaching or mentoring experience with senior clinicians or programme leaders.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£75,328 to £86,114 a year per annum inc HCAS pro rata

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