Regional Clinical Director

Lead clinical strategy and shape the future of care across your region This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior clinical leadership role, leading clinical strategy, quality, and performance across a defined region. As a Regional Clinical Director, you will play a critical role in shaping how care is delivered at scale - influencing clinical standards, strengthening clinician engagement, and ensuring safe, high-quality outcomes for patients, while delivering strong and sustainable commercial performance across your region. This role offers the opportunity to operate as a trusted senior clinical voice, working in close partnership with operational leadership to set direction, drive performance, and deliver meaningful impact across clinical and business outcomes. About the Role As a Regional Clinical Director, you will provide strategic clinical leadership across your region, with accountability for clinical performance, governance, workforce sustainability and clinician engagement. This is a regional leadership role alongside ongoing clinical practice, requiring regular travel across your geography and dedicated time to lead clinical strategy, governance and engagement at scale. You will operate through your Area Clinical Leads (ACLs), ensuring consistent delivery and impact across practices. The successful candidate will be required to maintain clinical practice, working 1 day per week as a dentist in a Bupa Dental Care practice, alongside 4 days per week in the Regional Clinical Director role. You Will:

• Own and drive regional clinical performance, ensuring delivery of key productivity, utilisation, revenue and growth outcomes through the ACL team
• Set clear direction and expectations for clinical performance, translating strategy and insight into actionable regional priorities
• Partner with operational leadership to shape and deliver regional business performance and growth
• Drive improvements in clinical quality, safety, and patient experience
• Use data, insight and risk trends to inform decision making, prioritisation and proactive performance improvement
• Provide strategic clinical input into business planning, growth and transformation initiatives
• Act as the senior clinical escalation point for complex clinical risk, incidents and complaints
• Build strong engagement with clinicians, creating a culture of learning, accountability and continuous improvement
• Lead, develop and performance manage a team of Area Clinical Leads, ensuring clear accountability for delivery, outcomes and impact across the region
• Own workforce planning at a regional level, including building a strong pipeline of clinical talent and proactively managing succession risk
• Support recruitment, retention and development of clinical talent across the region
• Provide clinical leadership into regulatory readiness, inspections and compliance activity, ensuring consistent standards
• Act as a senior clinical sponsor for change and transformation, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, embedded and deliver measurable impact
• Contribute to innovation, service development and strategic projects, Opportunity to shape clinical strategy and delivery at regional level
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making
• A highly visible leadership role with significant organisational impact
• Opportunity to lead and develop a high-performing clinical leadership layer (ACLs)
• Influence across clinical quality, patient experience and regional business performance
We champion diversity and understand the importance of our people representing the communities we serve. You'll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.


• Have endorsement from ROD or Operations Director
• Be GDC registered with a minimum of 10 years UK clinical experience
• Be a practising clinician in general or specialist dentistry
• Demonstrate strong clinical leadership capability, with the ability to influence, inspire and drive performance through others
• Have experience operating in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Be confident using data and insight to inform decision-making
• Demonstrate strong clinical judgement, integrity and communication skills
• Show experience in leading or contributing to quality improvement, governance or transformation activity
  
  We're proud to have been named in the LinkedIn Top Companies Where the UK Wants to Work, the Forbes World's best employers, and in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers lists.
Our aim is as simple as it comes - to deliver the best patient care in the industry. Yes, it's a big ask, but we achieve it by putting our patients and you at the heart of everything we do. We want Bupa Dental Care to be the brand of choice for patients, clinicians and for people who want to build a lasting career. Just some of the reasons to join us - written by our dentist colleagues:
• Associateships and Employed Dentists roles to give greater choice in a changing world
• Latest investment in practices with technology
• Flexible working
• Extensive consumables list with quality materials
• Practices well run by managers and head office support so dentists can focus on patient care
• Good communication with regulatory bodies so improved patient safety and governance
• Relocation between practices due to large network across UK and Ireland
• Different career pathways - support from building private treatments alongside NHS to developing clinical career or going into non-clinical management and governance roles
• Learning and development support with a dedicated online platform, courses, graduate loans plus networking events
• Support from senior clinicians
• Bupa offer amazing benefits!
Why we're different Because we're not backed by private equity, we're in a unique position. We're committed to the UK dental industry for the long-term and are ready to treat not just today's patients, but generations to come. We're a limited liability company, we have no shareholders, so we're able to focus 100% on delivering a great service for our customers. We run commercially to remain competitive, but Bupa reinvests 100% of its profits to help provide better care for patients across the world.