Consultant Engagement Lead

Job summary

The PET-CT Consultant Engagement Lead is responsible for the management, oversight, and ongoing development of contractual arrangements with consultants and independent practitioners, alongside managing a portfolio of clinical service contracts.

The postholder will ensure that consultant engagement processes, payments, and contractual agreements are compliant with NHS standards, legal frameworks, governance requirements, and organisational policies. They will act as a key liaison on behalf of Alliance Medical Limited between the organisation, consultants, clinical leads, finance teams, and external partners to ensure services are high‑quality, cost‑effective, and delivered in line with strategic and operational priorities.

This role requires strong relationship‑building skills, robust contract management capabilities, and a deep understanding of NHS governance, medical staffing arrangements, and provider–commissioner relationships.

This is a home-based role with a requirement for travel across the South-West region centered around Taunton.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a highly skilled professional to lead consultant engagement and contract management across a complex healthcare environment. You will act as the primary point of contact for consultants and independent practitioners, overseeing end-to-end engagement including contracts, SLAs, onboarding, compliance, and activity alignment with organisational priorities. Working closely with clinical leadership and workforce teams, you will ensure all arrangements meet NHS and legal standards while supporting governance processes such as appraisal, revalidation, and audit. You will also take ownership of key contracts, including PET-CT services, providing expert advice, supporting reporting to NHS England, and contributing to contract oversight and procurement activities.

In addition, you will drive contract performance, financial oversight, and service development across a diverse portfolio of clinical and corporate agreements. This includes monitoring KPIs, managing budgets and consultant payments, leading contract reviews, and supporting negotiations and service changes. You will play a key role in business development, stakeholder engagement, and service improvement initiatives, while ensuring robust governance, risk management, and compliance. Working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners, you will also support workforce planning, subcontractor oversight, and continuous improvement, while providing leadership, mentoring, and direction to junior colleagues.

This is a field based role covering the South of England, with a requirement to travel across the region as required. 

Required Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• Degree‑level education or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Project management, contract management, HR/medical staffing, or procurement qualification (desirable).
• Master’s level qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience managing contracts within the NHS or a similar regulated environment.
• Experience working with consultants or senior clinicians (medical staffing, clinical governance, or commissioning roles).
• Experience in performance monitoring, financial reporting, or contractual compliance.
• Experience of collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and external organisations.
• Negotiation, dispute resolution, or procurement experience (desirable).

Skills & Knowledge

• Understanding of NHS medical staffing frameworks, consultant contracts, and governance requirements.
• Knowledge of the NHS Standard Contract and NHS regulatory landscape.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial, performance, and activity information.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• High level of IT proficiency, particularly in Excel and data reporting tools.

Personal Attributes

• Professional, credible, and confident when engaging senior clinicians and executives.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport and trust.
• Resilient, adaptable, and solution‑focused.

About us

Alliance Medical are Europe’s leading independent provider of imaging services. 

We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years. 

We operate a robust pre-employment screening process for all roles which includes proof of professional registration and qualifications, DBS checking and occupational health assessments.

We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care:  

Our Values 

Leaders, managers, and supervisors have a particular responsibility to be role models in terms of how they demonstrate these values themselves and how they engage their teams to work in this way. 

Collaboration: 

We work together and in partnership for all our patients. We respect expertise and combine it to achieve more. 

Excellence: 

We never compromise. We strive to deliver the very best in everything we do to ensure the highest quality of care. We treat our patients and each other with compassion, dignity and respect. 

Learning: 

Knowledge and understanding comes from learning.  At Alliance Medical we are committed to ensuring that each and every one of us keeps on learning and that we continuously look for improved ways of working. 

Efficiency: 

Efficiency in healthcare means more patients get better care. We constantly seek new ways to use the scarce resource of healthcare more intelligently so that more people can live longer, fuller lives. 

Openness: 

We act with transparency and honesty in everything we do, where staff are encouraged to speak up to ensure a safe and secure environment for our patients.