# Senior Clinical Lead (Associate CCIO) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-lead-associate-ccio/93dccfb4-a4e7-4ab2-b009-372e05ce8d2d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-lead-associate-ccio/93dccfb4-a4e7-4ab2-b009-372e05ce8d2d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Preston - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** 24 months (24 Months Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T08:12:50.971Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8061013 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8061013?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced clinical leader who can lead complex change, provide clear clinical assurance, and influence practice across services? We are recruiting a Trust-wide Senior Clinical Lead to provide senior clinical leadership for an integrated portfolio of clinical pathway transformation and clinical system optimisation, with a current focus on Patient First (inpatient pathway transformation) and Rio ReCHARGED. ### Main duties of the job This is a Trust-wide role operating through formal governance and working closely with the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO). Within the agreed portfolio scope, you will act as the Trust’s senior clinical voice for clinical assurance and arbitration, ensuring that agreed pathway standards and user-centred clinical workflows drive clinical system design and configuration, not the other way round. You will work closely with clinical networks, programme teams, digital colleagues and improvement teams to ensure changes are safe, consistent and workable. You will provide formal clinical assurance at key decision points, including recommendations for go/no-go decisions at agreed assurance checkpoints, and you will require proposals to be amended or paused where they do not meet agreed clinical safety and quality requirements. Where required, you will support formal approval of Trust-wide standards and policies through the Clinical Standards Group. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role. ## Job Details Are you an experienced clinical leader who can lead complex change, provide clear clinical assurance, and influence practice across services? We are recruiting a Trust-wide Senior Clinical Lead to provide senior clinical leadership for an integrated portfolio of clinical pathway transformation and clinical system optimisation, with a current focus on Patient First (inpatient pathway transformation) and Rio ReCHARGED. ## Job Description This is a Trust-wide role operating through formal governance and working closely with the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO). Within the agreed portfolio scope, you will act as the Trust’s senior clinical voice for clinical assurance and arbitration, ensuring that agreed pathway standards and user-centred clinical workflows drive clinical system design and configuration, not the other way round. You will work closely with clinical networks, programme teams, digital colleagues and improvement teams to ensure changes are safe, consistent and workable. You will provide formal clinical assurance at key decision points, including recommendations for go/no-go decisions at agreed assurance checkpoints, and you will require proposals to be amended or paused where they do not meet agreed clinical safety and quality requirements. Where required, you will support formal approval of Trust-wide standards and policies through the Clinical Standards Group. ## Responsibilities Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to engage credibly with frontline staff across the organisation. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Advanced understanding of inpatient pathways, key challenges, and the ability to identify solutions spanning pathway redesign and digital enablement. - Strong understanding of clinical governance, quality improvement, and risk management. ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience of frontline clinical practice within mental health services. - Demonstrable experience of leading or shaping inpatient pathways or complex clinical services, with a strong understanding of inpatient flow, quality, safety, and patient experience. - Proven ability to lead trust-wide or multi-service clinical change and to influence senior clinical and operational leaders without direct line authority. - Experience of holding others to account using clinical and operational data and challenging practice where it does not meet agreed clinical standards. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to MSc level or equivalent experience, for example in clinical practice, clinical leadership, quality improvement, health systems, or digital health. - Registered healthcare professional with current professional registration and substantial post-qualification experience, including senior clinical leadership in inpatient mental health settings. ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 470.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10351300) - [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256) ## 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.