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, withaccountability for clinical performance, governance, workforcesustainabilityand 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,governanceand engagement at scale. You willoperatethrough 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,revenueand 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 toshape and deliver regional business performance and growth
Drive improvements in clinical quality, safety, and patient experience
Use data,insightand risk trends to inform decision making, prioritisation and proactive performance improvement
Provide strategic clinical input into business planning,growthand transformation initiatives
Act as the senior clinical escalation point for complex clinical risk,incidentsand complaints
Build strong engagement with clinicians, creating a culture of learning,accountabilityand continuous improvement
Lead, develop and performance manage a team of Area Clinical Leads, ensuring clear accountability for delivery,outcomesand 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,retentionand development of clinical talent across the region
Provide clinical leadership into regulatory readiness,inspectionsand compliance activity, ensuring consistent standards
Act as a senior clinical sponsor forchange and transformation, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, embedded and deliver measurable impact
Contribute to innovation, servicedevelopmentand strategic projects
Role Requirements
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 anddrive performance through others
Have experienceoperatingin complex, multi‑stakeholder environments
Be confident using data and insight to inform decision‑making
Demonstrate strong clinical judgement,integrityand communication skills
Show experience in leading or contributing to quality improvement,governanceor transformation activity
WhatYou’llGain
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)
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Wechampiondiversity and understand the importance of our peoplerepresentingthe communities we serve.You’llfind 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.
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Regional Clinical Director - South West in West Bromwich employer: Springer Nature Limited
Join a thriving dental practice in Sherbourne, where we prioritise a supportive and collaborative work culture. With competitive remuneration of £16 per UDA, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth, you will be well-equipped to build your private patient list while enjoying the benefits of a fully modernised facility. Our commitment to employee satisfaction is reflected in our welcome payment and comprehensive support team, making this an excellent opportunity for both part-time and full-time locum dentists.
