National Specialty Advisor

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom NHS England Specialised Commissioning Full time
Job Summary

The Heart and Lung Transplant Transformation Programme is seeking a National Specialty Advisor to provide clinical advice and leadership to drive transformation of services for patients. This role will involve providing clinical advice to support the commissioning and quality improvement of pathways at a national level, and leadership to enable change within the English Cardiothoracic Transplant centres.

Main Duties

The National Specialty Advisor will be an experienced senior leader within UK heart transplant services, either a physician or surgeon. Key responsibilities include:

  • Providing advice to develop the programme's ambitions and shape outputs, including a suite of tools and approaches that enable change
  • Delivering those outputs with the programme team, working with stakeholders across NHS England, Trusts, NHS regional partners, and NHS Blood and Transplant as necessary
  • Being accountable for certain programme workstreams, their deliverables, and outcomes
  • Contributing to the definition of programme outcome measures by which clinicians and patients recognise services should be judged
  • Contributing to wider work across the Heart and Lung transplant programme as required
About Us

NHS England and NHS Improvement came together on 1 April 2019 as a new single organisation. The NHS Long Term Plan focuses on delivering integrated care to patients at the local level, and we can best support the NHS to deliver this as a single integrated organisation.

Our new operating model represents a strong shift to regional delivery supported by expert corporate teams. Local health systems are supported by our integrated regional teams who play a major leadership role in the geographies they manage.

We are jointly committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all, and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.



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