Medical Director - Secondary Care & Transformation
NHS EnglandYork / Newcastle / Leeds / Darlington / Rotherham, North East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with NHS England based in York / Newcastle / Leeds / Darlington / Rotherham. The advertised salary is £135,000. Applications close on 10 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
As part of the restructure of the North East & Yorkshire Regional Office of NHS England, a small number of new, senior clinical roles have been create...
The successful candidate will work closely with secondary care providers and the four Integrated Care Systems across the North East & Yorkshire and as part of a multidisciplinary team approach within the NHS England Regional Team supporting the oversight and transformation of the secondary care sector. This will include supporting the delivery of the national Modern Service Frameworks and other clinical improvement programmes within the North East & Yorkshire.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Essential: - Medically qualified with current licence to practice
Essential: - Minimum of three year's senior level experience working as a board director or equivalent within an NHS organisation; - Track record of delivery of quality improvement projects or programmes at scale; - Experience of interfacing with external agencies at a senior level
Essential: - Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities as required; - Political acumen, with an ability to understand the culture, climate and politics within the NHS; be attuned to the sensitivities of different stakeholder interests within a region in particular, and work sensitively to overcome the differing positions and interests of these.
Essential: - Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
How this role compares
We hold 366 NHS vacancies in North East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays more than about 100% of them.
There are 11,611 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 605 of them in North East.
You have 5 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 30 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
NHS England has 32 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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How to apply
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