About this role
Job summary
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 ICS function, 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.
About us
Our vision:
Wellbeing for life: We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual's quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support.
Our values:
Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles.We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Job description Job responsibilities
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MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Duties and Responsibilities: the post holder will:
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
Use populationhealth intelligence, stratified data and analytical insight to shape targeted interventions that address unwarranted variation and improve outcomes for disadvantaged groups
Embed inclusive, culturally competent and coproduced approaches in programme design and delivery, ensuring meaningful engagement of diverse communities and Experts by Experience
Plan, design, implement and evaluate programmes using recognised improvement methodologies (e.g., logic models, theories of change, KPIs, PDSA), ensuring measurable impact and sustainable systemwide change
Develop robust business cases, investment proposals and commissioning recommendations with clear scope, quality standards, measurable benefits, and financial implications
Manage programme budgets and resources, ensuring effective financial controls and alignment with governance and organisational priorities.
2. Communications and Relationships : the post holder will:
Lead identification, mapping and strategic engagement of senior stakeholders across the ICS, including clinical leaders, operational managers, commissioners, system partners, VCSE organisations and residents
Oversee governance of culturally competent engagement and coproduction, ensuring communities meaningfully influence strategic priorities, service design and evaluation
Act as the senior liaison between central, borough and placebased teams, ensuring alignment with strategic plans, consistent communication and coordinated delivery
Lead collaborative working across ICS organisations and national partners, including NHS England, provider collaboratives and local authorities
Provide authoritative analysis and strategic recommendations to executive leaders, programme boards and governance groups, articulating risks, dependencies and change impacts to inform decisionmaking.
2. Staff Management and Leadership: The post holder will:
Provide senior, valuesdriven leadership aligned with CNWLs SCARF principles, modelling professionalism, accountability and continuous improvement
Offer highlevel guidance and assurance to senior clinicians and programme leads to support effective, evidencebased decisionmaking
Support the CEP Programme Manager to deliver highquality outputs, manage interdependencies and meet key milestones
Foster a highperforming, inclusive and culturally competent culture that empowers clinical leaders, programme teams and Experts by Experience to collaborate on service redesign and evaluation
Ensure effective crosssystem coordination and delivery of clinical effectiveness priorities through strong relationships, credibility and strategic engagement.
4. Project Management: The post holder will:
Provide strategic oversight of CEP initiatives and wider system clinical effectiveness programmes, ensuring alignment with ICS priorities, evidencebased practice and population health needs
Lead the development of systemlevel programme strategies, outcomes frameworks and evaluation approaches that define benefits and guide direction
Shape and steer complex change strategies promoting digital innovation, datadriven transformation and analytical insight to improve outcomes, pathway quality and efficiency
Oversee programme risks, interdependencies, and mitigation planning through robust governance, scenario planning and appropriate escalation
Ensure all digital and quality improvement initiatives align with national interoperability and regulatory standards
Oversee data, insight and analysis functions supporting system assurance, ensuring highquality reporting, strong governance and auditready documentation
Apply seniorlevel change control processes to assess and approve modifications to scope, timelines or resources, ensuring strategic alignment
Provide strategic input into financial planning and investment decisions, working with Finance, Estates, Workforce, IT and Quality to ensure programme alignment with organisational and ICS strategies
Ensure compliance with information governance, data protection legislation and clinical quality standards.
5. Autonomy and Freedom to Act: The post holder will:
Provide autonomous, seniorlevel leadership of the NWL Clinical Effectiveness programme, shaping strategic direction and overseeing crosssystem delivery Drive systemwide improvements in outcomes, prevention, early intervention and equitable access, ensuring alignment with ICS and national priorities Model exemplary professional and strategic leadership standards, providing authoritative insight, intelligence and evidencebased 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 decisionmaking.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications Essential
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.
Desirable
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 Essential
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.
Desirable
Experience of leading clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, or population health programmes at scale Experience of working with ICS governance structures, including programme boards and executive committees Experience of developing business cases, investment proposals, or commissioning recommendations
Skills and Knowledge Essential
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.
Desirable
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 Essential
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
Desirable
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.
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Employer details Employer name Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address CNWL HQ
350 Euston Road
London
NW1 3AX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)