Clinical Delivery Lead

Job summary

We at Cora Health are delighted to be growing our team of talented clinicians and are currently looking for Clinical Delivery Lead that is passionate about providing high-quality patient-centred care to join us as part of a large multidisciplinary team covering South Tyneside, Darlington and Durham.

You will be responsible for innovating and delivering on strategic development, enriching clinical expertise and quality in a fast paced Pain service.

Main duties of the job

A core function of this role is to work with the operational manager to ensure effective capacity and demand modelling, optimised utilisation, waiting times and clinical skill mix within services. These services may be cross-specialty dependent on geographical area and are subject to change as contracts grow and evolve.

You will be required to work on site across clinical locations for the service providing on the ground leadership to the team at our different clinical sites.

The role is a split clinical and non-clinical role. The expectation in the role is that 40% of the working time is directly clinical, whilst 60& is non-clinical (subject to flexibility based on conflicting demands and amenable in agreement with line manager as required).

About us

We are Cora Health:

Cora is a leading provider of community healthcare services in the UK. We deliver MSK (musculoskeletal) services, diagnostic imaging, day-case surgery, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, persistent pain management, mental health, orthopaedic and rheumatology services.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to thrive. We help people help themselves, to get back to their best or to simply find a new way forward.

Details

• Date posted: 15 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: Depending on experience
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: E0332-DAR31
• Job locations: Cora Health, The Dolphin Centre, Horse Market, Darlington, DL1 5RP, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

What you will do in the roleProvide clinical leadership to colleagues working within the services to ensure safe and effective delivery of clinical interventions in line with professional standards and governance requirements (incidents, complaints, risk, audit, medicines management, infection control, safeguarding) with associated reporting.

Contribute to Academy delivery by being involved with the faculty, providing education to colleagues across Cora, alongside assuring quality of locally delivered education sessions.

Ensure that the multi-professional workforce is supported to thrive and develop in line with relevant policy and guidance e.g., recruitment, induction, supervision, performance appraisal, capability assessments, wellbeing.

Develop and foster productive relationships with local clinical stakeholders including patient groups, community groups, PCNs, Consultants, GPs, and other clinically important contacts both internal and external to Cora, inclusive of reducing health inequalities.

Ensure continuous improvement of clinical quality (outcomes, experience, safety) within services through a focus on pathway optimisation and responsible use of available resources (e.g., clinical capacity).

Personally deliver high quality clinical care to patients and lead by example meeting the clinical and commercial needs of the services.