Clinical Director

The Clinical Director is a key member of the Executive Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Chief Executive, with accountability for the strategic leadership, integration, and optimal performance of the hospices clinical strategy, governance, and service delivery.

The Clinical Director will ensure the provision of outstanding palliative and end-of-life care, aligned with the hospices mission, values, and regulatory frameworks. Oversee a multidisciplinary team, including the Heads of all patient facing services, Associate Director of services for children and young people, Head of Quality Assurance & Safety, and Medical Lead (Consultant doctor), ensuring safe, effective, and innovative services. The role also has regulatory responsibility as the CQC Registered Manager, ensuring compliance with all required standards.

The Clinical Director will act as a key ambassador for Hospice in the Weald, building strong relationships with Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), NHS partners, regulators, and external stakeholders to influence local policy and improve palliative and end-of-life care., Provide strategic and operational leadership across all clinical services, ensuring safe, compassionate, high-quality care. They will hold executive responsibility for clinical governance, patient safety, safeguarding, infection control, medicines management, and regulatory compliance, including acting as CQC Registered Manager and overseeing Caldicott Guardian responsibilities. Champion person-centred, evidence-based care, equality, diversity and inclusion, and continuous improvement through audit, research, innovation, and feedback.

Lead service transformation and clinical strategy, ensuring services remain sustainable, responsive, and integrated with NHS and community partners. Including oversight of clinical risk, quality assurance, workforce development, professional standards, statutory compliance, and effective financial and resource management.

As an Executive Team member, you will foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, learning, and wellbeing across multidisciplinary teams, supporting recruitment, retention, succession planning, and volunteer integration. Providing expert advice to the Board, strengthen partnerships with healthcare organisations and commissioners, and support robust communication, performance management, education, mentorship, and data-driven service improvement aligned with organisational values and priorities.

Hospice in the Weald was founded in 1980 as a small home-care service in West Kent, born out of local community effort to support people with life-limiting illnesses.

Today, more than 40 years on, Hospice in the Weald continues to provide compassionate, personalised care to patients and their loved ones, celebrating life and offering dignity at the end of life for thousands in the local community.