Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a General Practitioner to join the QVH CDC Programme
The Clinical Lead for the QVH Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) is responsible for providing clinical leadership, ensuring high standards of patient care, optimising diagnostic pathways, and supporting the delivery of efficient, safe, and patient-centred services. The role includes overseeing clinical governance, supporting innovation, and working collaboratively across primary, community, and secondary care to improve early diagnosis and patient outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective diagnostic services within the QVH CDC
- Work with pathway leads on the development, implementation, and continuous
- improvement of all clinical pathways, ensuring they are efficient and patient focused
- Engage with primary, community and secondary care on a regular basis to
- support the roll out and development of pathways
- Be the clinical leadership voice and link between QVH and Primary Care on the
- Programme Board
- Represent the CDC at the Clinical Oversight Group for all CDCs in Sussex
- Ensure compliance with NHS clinical standards, protocols, and CDC programme
- requirements
- Support and guide clinicians and multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of learning and professional development.
- Monitor and evaluate clinical outcomes, using data to drive improvements and
- reduce health inequalities
- Engage patients, staff and system colleagues in service design and pathway co-development
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of diagnostic results to referrers, supporting clear communication and onward referrals as needed
- Participate in communities of practice, sharing learning and providing regular updates and reports in line with programme requirements
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant clinical developments, innovations, and best practices
Requirements
Please see detail in the job description.
About us
Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.
We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer and skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise. Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services. Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.
Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.
Benefits package
See documents attached to the role on TRAC