Clinical Reviewer | NHS England

The National Patient Safety Team is searching for an exceptional individual to join the Review and Response as a Clinical Reviewer. This is a unique opportunity to work with an expert team who support the detection and progression of new and emerging safety issues identified from a range of sources including the Learn from Patient Safety Events Service (LFPSE). This work underpins the development of advice and guidance to the NHS, including National Patient Safety Alerts, fulfilling NHS England’s statutory duties.

This role requires a person with advanced clinical insight and high-level skills in patient safety. You will be practiced in searching and synthesising complex clinical and patient safety data to develop insight, including for new or emerging risks to patient safety.

Asa Clinical Reviewer,thepost holder will work as part of a dynamic team who engage with stakeholders from within the Patient Safety, Analytics, NHSE teams and the wider NHS. This engagement will support the delivery of safer care across health and social care sectors.

The role requires an experienced clinician currently registered with an appropriate UK regulator (e.g. NMC, GMC or HCPC), with broad experience of clinical governance.

You will have a strong understanding of regional and national patient safety issues and be able to confidently identify and progress risks relevant to the wider healthcare system. You will support the delivery of high‑quality, timely information in line with business plan priorities and statutory responsibilities.

On a day‑to‑day basis, you will lead and undertake clinical reviews, using your insight and expertise in patient safety to recommend proportionate and effective actions to mitigate risk across the system.

Essential criteria include experience in a senior clinical patient safety role at provider, regional or national level, alongside effective stakeholder management skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with senior and high‑profile stakeholders. You will be confident in analysing, interpreting and presenting complex information at a senior level.

You will have strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with others and produce clear, high‑quality written reports for a wide range of internal and external audiences.

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 announcedthat 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.

There will be occasional travel across England with the need for overnight stays (where relevant), some of which maybe consecutive. Hybrid working is supported for this role.

The role will have a start date of June/July 2026 for an initial period until 31/03/2027.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please contact the Head of Patient Safety Review and Response, Kate Worcester atkathryn.worcester@nhs.net

Detailed job description and main responsibilities are in the attached Job Description.

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

This advert closes on Monday 1 Jun 2026