Clinical Lead for Wound Care and R&D
We need people who share our drive to change lives for the better. If you care deeply about the work you do, are a team player, like a challenge and are always looking look for better ways of doing things, you will relish the opportunity to work at Accelerate.
Clinical Lead for Wound Care and R&D
- Location:
- Accelerate Centre of Excellence & Innovation , London
- Salary:
- £55,524 – £63,161 (includes HCAS)
- Closing date:
- 30 June 2026
Specialist nursing and therapy roles are critical to the successful delivery of care within Accelerate. The clinical lead will lever their passion for their speciality and their expert skills in the care and management of complex patients for the delivery of excellent outcomes for their patients and commissioners. It is anticipated that the post holder will bring better understanding to the principles of patient flow, clinical systems and their organisation, and staff effectiveness and efficiency.
Research and development (R&D) are important aspects of this role.You will coordinate product evaluations and research projects across the CEI and community wound teams, working closely with the Clinical lead for Community Wound Care, the Director of Wound Care and the Director of R&D & Accelerate Academy.
You will bring creative thinking and innovation to complex issues, utilising expert skills, risk management and insight to effectively manage a variety of situations borne out of complex psychosocial, medical or organisational need. Clinical leadership, partnership working and a solution focused mentality are essentials of this role.
This role is designed to enable the post holder to take full responsibility for the delivery of the outcomes for a defined contractual business area. Clinical and operational delivery remains core to this role.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Lead is considered the expert and will take ownership for the clinical and operational delivery of the clinical service area together with an ability to take a population health rather than a pure individual focus. The post holder will lead their team to deliver excellent clinical care alongside the management of risk and successful deployment of the teams resources. This role is designed to enable the post holder to take full responsibility for the delivery of the outcomes for a defined contractual business area. Clinical and operational delivery remains core to this role; the post holder is accountable to the Director of Wound Care.
Essential deliverables for the Clinical Lead role include:-
- The provision of confident expert clinical skills and a depth of knowledge of the population, delivered in an insightful, creative and timely manner.
- Being solution focussed and collaborative with key stakeholders.
- Taking responsibility for directly managing clinical risk and escalating identified organisational risk to the Senior Leadership team – SLT
- Act as the representative and Ambassador for Accelerate, ensuring that you are alert to the impact of you and your team on the reputation of Accelerate within the health economy.
- Ownership of and responsibility for the delivery of the Key Performance Indicators and clinical audits for your service.
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