Integrated Neighbourhood Teams Clinical Lead (Secondary Care)

Job overview

We are recruiting three Senior Clinical Leads (2 PAs each) to support the development of our Integrated Neighbourhood Team programme across Lambeth and Southwark.

We welcome applications from senior secondary care clinicians with expertise in:

• Children and Young People with Complex Care Needs
• Multiple Long-Term Conditions
• Frailty

Working alongside primary care leads and system partners, post-holders will provide clinical leadership for the design, implementation and delivery of neighbourhood-based models of care, supporting our ambition to improve population health outcomes.

These are fixed-term roles for one year, with scope expected to evolve as the programme develops. Successful candidates will work closely with clinical, operational and executive colleagues across the system.

Application deadline: 22 July 2026 Interview date (provisional): 5 August 2026

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact:

• Alice Jarvis, Director of Operations and Partnerships – [email protected]
• Dr Bidisha Lahoti, Deputy Medical Director (Evelina) – [email protected]
• Dr Shaheen Khan, Deputy Medical Director (ISM) – [email protected]

Main duties of the job

This role sits within the Lambeth and Southwark Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) programme, which is developing neighbourhood-based models of care across ten neighbourhoods. During the current implementation phase, the programme focuses on three priority cohorts: Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC), Frailty, and Children & Young People (CYP) with complex needs.

The Secondary Care Clinical Lead will provide clinical leadership and expertise for one of these cohorts, working with primary care leads and system partners to improve the quality, coordination and consistency of care. They  will support the design and delivery of neighbourhood-based services, pathway redesign, and provide leadership across Lambeth and Southwark.

Responsibilities include supporting multidisciplinary team working, workforce development, service improvement, digital transformation, population health management, and reducing health inequalities. The postholder will strengthen integration between primary care, secondary care, community health, mental health, social care and the voluntary sector, ensuring seamless, person-centred care.

This role requires an experienced clinician with expertise in managing complex patients, including multi-morbidity, diagnostic uncertainty, safeguarding and clinical risk. The successful candidate will work across organisational boundaries, support clinical teams, improve outcomes for their cohort, and help shape the future of neighbourhood-based care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

- Provide clinical leadership to support the design and delivery of INT models of care, contributing to service re-design, including identification of cohort, and designing interventions

- Work with primary care and other stakeholders to lead development and delivery of neighbourhood health systems for children and young people

- Establish clinical governance within the neighbourhoods, to ensure delivery of consistent, high-quality clinical care

- Support complex clinical decision-making, including risk and escalation

- Design care models that is proactive, preventative, and holistic, to reduce local health inequalities.

- Monitor outcomes and oversee clinical governance using performance dashboards and ensuring best use of available resources and aligning with wider health system priorities.

Build strong relationships with:

- Primary care providers in both boroughs

- Secondary care providers in both boroughs

- Community services

- Mental health teams

- Social care

- VCSE organisations

This description is not exhaustive and additional responsibilities will be considered to respond to changing priorities and as part of the regular review of the scope of the role.