# Population Health Clinical Fellow > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Central East ICB. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/population-health-clinical-fellow/3a0f0cd5-06bd-480f-8802-e5b76a940899 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/population-health-clinical-fellow/3a0f0cd5-06bd-480f-8802-e5b76a940899.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Central East ICB - **Location:** Central East Integrated Care Board - **Workplace type:** hybrid - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Public Health - **Grade:** Junior - **Salary:** £54,499 - £67,325 per annum pro rota - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Home or remote working, 40 hours per week (No on-call) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-13T13:34:08.929Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Ely/Central_East_Integrated_Care_Board/Population_Health_Clinical_Fellow/Population_Health_Clinical_Fellow-v8242241 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8242241?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.centraleast.icb.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity for a doctor interested in population health, public health, strategic commissioning and large-scale service improvement to join the Population Health Unit within our newly formed Integrated Care Board. Working across an ICB responsible for commissioning services for approximately 3.5 million people, you will use data, insight and evidence to support the development of care pathways, new models of care and service transformation. You will collaborate with colleagues across the ICB and partners including NHS providers, primary care, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations. The post offers experience in Population Health Management, Public Health, Strategic Commissioning, Clinical Leadership and health and care transformation. You will develop skills in health needs assessment, population health data analysis, evidence review, service redesign and communicating complex information, while contributing to improvements in health outcomes, care experience and health inequalities. The role would suit doctors considering a career in public health or entering GP or other specialty training who are interested in improving population health and services. We are seeking someone with strong analytical and communication skills, an understanding of the NHS and enthusiasm for further development. ### Main duties of the job - Use clinical and population health expertise to support the development and improvement of evidence-based care pathways, clinical policies and new models of care. - Support the implementation of population health management approaches, including undertaking health needs assessments, identifying opportunities for improvement and monitoring the impact of interventions. - Analyse and interpret complex quantitative and qualitative data, epidemiological information, research evidence and national guidance to inform recommendations and decision-making. - Undertake literature reviews, clinical audits, evaluations, surveys and other research activities to support service and pathway improvement. - Contribute to strategies and plans designed to improve population health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and address unwarranted variation in access, experience and outcomes. - Build effective working relationships with clinicians, managers, NHS providers, primary care, local authorities, voluntary sector organisations, patients and public representatives. - Facilitate and contribute to multidisciplinary and cross-organisational groups, workshops and meetings, managing differing or conflicting views constructively. - Communicate complex, sensitive or potentially contentious information clearly to a range of internal and external audiences, including through written reports and formal presentations. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Job description The Clinical Fellow will work within the Population Health Unit in the Strategy, Planning and Evaluation Directorate, under the supervision of a Consultant in Public Health. The post provides an opportunity to develop practical experience in population health, public health, strategic commissioning, clinical leadership and health and care transformation across a large and complex integrated care system. The postholder will bring a medical perspective to commissioning, service transformation, resource allocation and quality improvement. They will work across organisational and professional boundaries to help translate national policy, clinical guidance and best practice into deliverable local programmes, policies and service changes. The Clinical Fellow will take responsibility for defined projects or workstreams, working with an appropriate degree of autonomy within agreed professional and organisational parameters. This will include planning and coordinating complex activities, managing interdependencies, identifying and resolving delivery issues, maintaining appropriate project documentation and ensuring that agreed outputs are completed. The postholder will contribute to the organisation’s approach to utilisation management and value for money. This will include considering how resources are used across the health and care system, assessing the financial and operational implications of proposed changes, and contributing to business cases and programme budgets. The role does not include direct patient contact or an on-call commitment. Main responsibilities - Take responsibility for agreed projects or discrete workstreams, developing clear objectives, milestones, deliverables and monitoring arrangements. - Coordinate contributions from different teams and organisations, ensuring that activities are aligned and interdependencies are identified and managed. - Provide concise updates and briefings to senior colleagues on progress, risks, dependencies, decisions required and proposed mitigating actions. - Interpret clinical recommendations, professional standards and national guidance in the context of local commissioning decisions. - Apply agreed local policies and decision-making frameworks consistently when contributing to value assessments. - Review existing local clinical policies to determine whether they remain consistent with current national guidance, professional standards and organisational priorities. - Draft or revise local policies and supporting documentation for consideration through the relevant approval process. - Translate national guidance into clear local requirements, identifying areas in which implementation may require changes to contracts, workforce, digital systems, referral arrangements or clinical practice. - Assess the potential consequences of proposed policy changes for patients, providers, commissioners and different population groups. - Support the implementation of approved policies by developing practical guidance, briefings, implementation plans and monitoring arrangements. - Advise colleagues on the interpretation and application of national, professional and organisational policies within the scope of the role. - Consider the financial, workforce, operational and opportunity-cost implications of proposed policies, services and improvement initiatives. - Contribute clinical advice to business cases, options appraisals and investment or disinvestment proposals. - Examine the potential effect of decisions across different parts of the health and care system, including the risk that costs or activity may be transferred between organisations or services. - Support the identification of opportunities to improve productivity, reduce low-value activity and make more effective use of available capacity. - Support work to understand variation in the use of health and care services and the factors contributing to that variation. - Examine whether activity is taking place in the most clinically appropriate setting and whether alternative approaches could deliver better outcomes or value. - Contribute to reviews of referral patterns, thresholds, clinical practice and service utilisation within defined programmes. - Help identify opportunities to reduce avoidable, ineffective or lower-value activity while protecting patient safety and access to clinically necessary care. - Support the translation of utilisation findings into practical commissioning, improvement or implementation actions. - Identify potential clinical risks associated with proposed service, pathway or policy changes and ensure these are considered through the appropriate governance process. - Support the development of proportionate clinical quality and safety measures for defined programmes. - Escalate concerns promptly where information suggests a significant risk to patient safety, quality of care or organisational assurance. - Work within professional standards, organisational policies and agreed limits of competence when providing clinical advice. - Maintain appropriate confidentiality when handling patient-level, commercially sensitive or otherwise restricted information. - Provide medical and public health input to medium- and long-term plans for service development and system transformation. - Translate strategic objectives into defined actions, deliverables and implementation requirements. - Consider how proposed changes may affect different services, organisations, professional groups and parts of the population. - Support options appraisal where several potential courses of action are available and the evidence or operating environment is uncertain. - Anticipate practical barriers to implementation and propose proportionate actions to address them. - Contribute to the alignment of local plans with national policy, organisational priorities and available resources. - Use relevant local and national information systems required for the delivery of assigned work. - Support the effective operation of designated information systems where responsibility is allocated to the postholder. - Ensure that information is recorded, stored, shared and retained in accordance with organisational requirements. - Maintain accurate records of project activity, recommendations, decisions and supporting evidence. - Apply information governance, data protection and confidentiality requirements when using identifiable or sensitive information. - Ensure that assigned work complies with relevant statutory, regulatory, professional and organisational requirements. - Prepare evidence and documentation required for programme assurance, internal review or audit. - Support transparent decision-making by clearly recording the evidence reviewed, options considered, judgements made and approvals obtained. - Follow appropriate routes for clinical, financial, information and corporate governance. - Work within delegated authority and seek senior advice where matters fall outside the postholder’s competence or remit. - Contribute to the regular review of risks, controls, actions and delivery assurance within assigned programmes - Project and programme delivery - Clinical advice on commissioning decisions - Policy review and implementation - Resource stewardship and value for money - Utilisation management - Clinical quality and safety - Strategic planning and implementation - Information systems and records - Governance, assurance and accountability For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Used to working in a busy environment. - Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change. - Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions. - Professional calm and efficient manner. - Effective organiser, influencer and networker. - Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals. ### Analytical **Essential** - Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. - Ability to analyse complex facts and situations from a range of information sources and develop evidence based plans. - Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action. - Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. ### Physical skils **Essential** - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills. ### Planning skills **Essential** - Demonstrate the ability to manage competing priorities and manage time and projects in complex circumstances. **Desirable** - Demonstrate examples of planning and organisation skills in service improvement work. ### Communication skills **Essential** - Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups - Able to collaborate with a range of stakeholders and develop consensus on difficult, complex and controversial issues ### Equality and diversity **Essential** - Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems in the area. ### Autonomy and freedom to act **Essential** - Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies. - Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales. - Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. - Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation). ### Knowledge, training and experience **Essential** - Primary medical qualification - Full registration and licence to practice with GMC - Must have completed both years of foundation training by start date of August 2026 or equivalent - Doctor in, or eligible for, UK post- graduate training programme - Evidence of involvement in leadership and management commensurate with experience - Demonstrates an understanding of NHS management and resources - Evidence of involvement and leadership in service/quality improvement initiatives ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 171.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2547) - [central east icb clinical fellow (pdf, 745.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10555129) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.