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Job summary

Main area
Clinical Innovation and Leadership
Grade
ST5 + Post CCT or equivalent
Contract
12 months (fixed term)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
40 hours per week (Hybrid working - mix of working from home and working in the office)
Job ref
196-MED4889
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
CITI Offices, Education Centre
Town
London
Salary
£61,825 - £70,425 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/07/2025 23:59

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Fellow in Innovation (and Leadership)

ST5 + Post CCT or equivalent

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

This role is a unique opportunity for applicants with current or previous clinical experience to lead on the development and implementation of optimised digital clinical pathways that aim to reduce non-warranted clinical variation and promote the consistency, equity and effectiveness of our clinical care.


Working at the heart of both the Deputy Chief Executive Office and the Chief Medical Officer’s Office, the post-holder will help us drive forward our digital transformation agenda and support the Executive Board in delivering its vision for better, faster, fairer healthcare. 
The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in leading one of the Trust’s digital transformation and improvement programmes, aimed at embedding clinical best practice in workflows using Epic  - our Electronic Health Record system.  


Interested candidates can contact: Laura Gudafin [email protected]

Main duties of the job

This role is designed to develop future clinical leaders, providing insight, experience and opportunity in the field of digital.
The successful candidate will work within a programme team to contribute to a Charity-funded imitative aimed at developing best practice workflows, test and implement them in 9 pilot areas – one to support the transformation of an end-to-end patient pathways, and 8 to optimise pathway steps such as nursing assessments in our Emergency Department.   


Working in close collaboration with the Programme team, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer, and one of CITI’s Associate Directors, the Clinical Fellow will help drive the clinical engagement throughout the lifecycle of the programme, from initial engagement, to co-development of solutions and embedding in Clinical practice.  

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Centre for Innovation, Transformation, and Improvement (CITI) was founded in 2021 under the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, who is the Executive Director responsible for leading and implementing the Trust’s strategy for innovation and improvement, which encourages the acceleration of new knowledge and capabilities, learns from best practices globally, and supports our staff to continuously deliver improvements in patient care. CITI co-locates multi-faceted teams to provide the focal point for services, staff and clinical innovators seeking to translate ideas, early-stage products or improvements into clinical practice. The Centre aims both to incubate and deliver innovations and improvement ideas, projects and programmes, working alongside and for its clinical services and for the benefit of patients   

CITI builds on industry best practice in taking innovation from concept to practice, in implementing change and supporting staff make local improvements. It aims to foster a culture of innovation and improvement throughout the Trust.

Patients and communities are fundamental  what we do and how we do it in CITI. Our selection and delivery of work is explicitly linked to improving health equity, inclusion and sustainability. We do this by putting data at the centre of our work and ensuring meaningful patient and public engagement helps shape our priorities and the solutions we help to develop.   

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role focuses on close collaboration with clinical teams to understand existing workflows and co-develop improved clinical pathways that promote consistency, equity, and effectiveness in care. Acting as a bridge between clinicians and digital transformation teams, it ensures clinical needs are prioritised throughout project development. Leading discussions and workshops, the role drives clinician engagement in designing and implementing best practice workflows aimed at reducing unwarranted variation across pilot areas.


Additionally, the position supports the adoption of digital solutions by coordinating testing and implementation in pilot sites, collecting feedback, and making adjustments to optimise clinical outcomes. It involves ongoing monitoring and evaluation of clinical data to assess the impact of new pathways, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. The role also provides comprehensive training and change management support to ensure smooth transitions and effective uptake of new workflows and digital tools within clinical teams.

 

For full information please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to the advert.

Person specification

Education / Qualification / Professional registration

Essential criteria
  • A degree in a healthcare-related field (e.g. Medicine)
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development or postgraduate education relevant to clinical practice or healthcare improvement
  • Current Registration with General Medical Council
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate qualification in health informatics, digital health, clinical leadership, healthcare management, or quality improvement
  • Training or certification in project management (e.g. PRINCE2, Agile) or quality improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Clinical experience in any healthcare specialty or setting (hospital, community, primary care, etc.)
  • Experience working within or alongside multidisciplinary clinical teams
  • Experience with or exposure to digital health systems (preferably Epic or other EHR platforms)
  • Involvement in quality improvement or clinical audit projects
Desirable criteria
  • Participation in clinical transformation, pathway redesign, or service improvement initiatives
  • Previous leadership roles (formal or informal) within clinical or project teams

Skills / Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Strong interest in digital health, clinical transformation, and quality improvement
  • Ability to understand and analyse clinical workflows and processes
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage a diverse range of clinical and non-clinical stakeholders
  • Confidence to lead meetings, facilitate workshops, and present ideas clearly and persuasively
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively
  • Basic understanding of principles of change management and clinical variation
  • Ability to work flexibly across clinical and administrative settings, including travel within the Trust as needed
  • Capacity to work on-screen for extended periods (e.g., use of Epic, documentation, data analysis)
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of digital health innovation, clinical pathway optimisation, or integrated care models
  • Familiarity with using data to support decision-making and performance improvement
  • Skills in user engagement, co-design methods, or human-centred design
  • Competence with data tools or basic analytics (e.g., Excel, dashboards, clinical KPIs)
  • Understanding of NHS digital transformation strategy and policy context
  • Willingness to adapt work hours occasionally to meet project demands or engage with clinical teams on varying shifts

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura Gudefin
Job title
Associate Director Centre for Innovation, Transformation, and Improvement
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Interested candidates can contact: Laura Gudefin ([email protected]).

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