Vacancy: Clinical Lead

We are seeking an experienced registered healthcare professional to join our Clinical and Service Development team as a Clinical Lead. This is an opportunity to help shape nationally and internationally recognised resuscitation courses, clinical guidance and educational resources.

We support healthcare professionals caring for patients of all ages across acute, community and out-of-hospital settings. Applicants may come from a range of clinical or educational backgrounds but should be able to demonstrate expertise and a strong commitment to resuscitation practice or education.

You do not need experience across all age groups. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience or an interest in ReSPECT, in-hospital neonatal care, paediatric life support or technology-enabled learning design, although these are not essential.

As a Clinical Lead, you will act as an expert clinical resource for RCUK and its stakeholders. You will advise NHS trusts and health boards, healthcare organisations, course centres, instructors and partner organisations, as well as providing appropriate clinical guidance to members of the public, patients and their families.

You will contribute to the oversight and development of RCUK courses, guidance and educational resources, helping to maintain high standards and respond to the changing needs of healthcare professionals and learners.

We would expect the successful candidate to be an active RCUK Instructor with current involvement in resuscitation practice or education.

You will be joining a small, committed clinical team working to improve resuscitation practice and patient outcomes. If you would bring enthusiasm, expertise and ideas to our work, we would be pleased to hear from you.
 

Leadership and management

• To support the Director of Clinical and Service Development (DCSD) and other members of the Senior Leadership Team by actively promoting and enabling the directorate/organisation to achieve its vision, values and objectives.
• To represent the CSD department at internal and external meetings.
• To ensure full compliance with the organisation’s complaints procedures. To undertake the primary review of complaints and escalate, as necessary.
• Be a primary point of contact for a named course portfolio, including the Generic Instructor Course.
• Identify opportunities to improve the quality of the service in collaboration with other RCUK key stakeholders, including representing RCUK with the Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG).
• To provide line management, supervision and support to allocated team members, including appraisal, performance management and personal development planning, where this forms part of the post holder’s portfolio.
• To support a culture that values respect, teamwork, equality, diversity, inclusivity and excellence.

Education and Training

• Lead on the review, development and delivery of course materials in collaboration with the Lead Educators, and review and appraise emerging evidence, guidelines and standards, to ensure a consistent approach to course materials and assessment from GIC through other provider courses.
• Use evidence-based best practices in education to meet the changing needs of learners.
• Liaise with other national clinical, governmental and educational organisations and providers.

Clinical Development

• Provide day-to-day leadership of clinical developments by supporting the DCSD in the support of the clinical subcommittees, development of new guidelines, teaching assignments, course materials and quality standards.
• Generating novel educational resources to support learners across the range of healthcare professions.
• Seeking out opportunities to develop and enhance existing course content and materials.

Programme and Project Management 
The CL will work with course subcommittees to ensure that priorities are discussed, planned and completed. They will also work with the Senior Leadership Team to project manage key organisational work. The CL will be responsible for relevant subcommittees and will report to, and provide expertise for, those subcommittees in line with the organisation’s strategy and core values.

Governance and Assurance

• Manage the governance and quality assurance processes for RCUK courses. 
• Support the DCSD in monitoring course quality.
• Identify potential areas of concern and recommend mitigation where necessary.

Communication, engagement and policy

• Use highly developed leadership and influencing skills to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across the organisation. 
• The CL will instruct on RCUK courses to model best practices and to network and promote relationships with the resuscitation community, thereby delivering the values and objectives of the organisation. 
• Utilise expert communication, negotiation and influencing skills to build and maintain excellent working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. 
• Have oversight of communications relating to allocated clinically focused projects and provide clinical sign-off, working with the Communications and Engagement Directorate in accordance with agreed organisational approval processes.
• Represent the organisation at national events and external committees, including presenting on behalf of the organisation on key projects.
• In collaboration with the RCUK policy leads, identify opportunities across the four nations to influence and change national policy around CPR.

Audit/service evaluation 

• Lead on coordinating, analysing and reporting on audit/service evaluation data and surveys for CSD for an assigned portfolio, as well as using insight to frame future developments to meet the strategic aims and needs of the organisation to achieve its vision, values and objectives.
• Plan and implement systems to collect customer/patient feedback to shape the RCUK clinical services to ensure they are robust and meet the changing needs of healthcare. 

Management

• Provide leadership and oversight to allocated CSD programme staff, working with their respective line managers where appropriate to support effective administration, quality control and customer service.
• Liaise with the Business Support Manager to support the course co-ordinator team.
• Ensure the team reflect the vision, values and objectives of RCUK.

Information Management
The CLs will work with the RCUK team to support the ongoing management of ISO9001:2015.

General

• The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and well-being and that of work colleagues and visitors, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.
• To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of Resuscitation Council UK together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
• To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
• This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time, and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.

Other

• In addition to the duties outlined above, the role may also include any other duties reasonably requested by their line manager.
• It is a requirement of all RCUK staff to take an active participative interest in their own continuing professional development.
• This role may occasionally involve working outside standard hours and may involve occasional weeknight/weekend work.  This may include national and international conferences or meetings.

This job description sets out the duties of the post at the time when it was drawn up and will be reviewed from time to time. Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot in themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the post.

Please email your CV and covering letter to recruitment@resus.org.uk with 'Clinical Lead' in the subject line. We would also be grateful if you could complete our equality and diversity monitoring form.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is midnight on Monday 31 August 2026.

Interviews will be held in person on Tuesday 15 September 2026.

We welcome and will accept applications using an alternative process (such as video or audio applications). Please contact us by email to discuss this prior to submitting your application. 

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early if enough suitable applicants apply.

We appreciate all applications, but we will only be contacting candidates who are shortlisted.

At Resuscitation Council UK, we offer competitive salaries, generous annual leave, and opportunities for professional development. All staff benefit from flexible working hours, and ensuring staff are able to balance their work and personal life is important to us. 

We pride ourselves on our inclusive, friendly staff team, who use their compassion and expertise to support each other. Teamwork and partnership working is at the centre of our mission to save lives. 

When you apply to a job with us, we aim to provide appropriate support every step of the way. Here are some of the ways we can support applicants and potential staff members: 

• Working location: We always seek to balance business needs with a flexible approach to working styles and preferences. We have adopted hybrid working arrangements, allowing staff to balance home and office working. The successful applicant will be required to come into the office for a minimum of 1 day per week. Reasonable adjustments will be made for the successful candidate where this is required.
• Access to work: If you would like to make an Access to Work application for a grant to pay for support tailored to your individual needs, such as a support worker, adaptations to the equipment you use, special equipment, taxi fares to and from work if public transport is not accessible to you, we will support you in this process. 
• Alternative application processes: We are asking for CVs and covering letters so you can tell us how your skills and experience can support and add value to Resuscitation Council UK. However, if an alternative method of applying – such as sending us a video or audio clip about yourself – works better for you, we welcome your application. We want our applicants to shine, so we’re flexible to your needs. 
• Equity for all applicants: when we receive applications, those who shortlist candidates for each role will not have access to your name, age or date of birth. In addition, we ask you to submit a diversity monitoring form. We won’t use the information in the diversity monitoring forms during the recruitment process itself, but the information we receive will help us to understand whether our job advertisements are successfully attracting a diverse range of applicants.