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Salary: Competitive, Depending on Experience
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
Location: 40 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7AW (hybrid working)
Contract: 3-month FTC
What are we looking for?
Cleveland Clinic London (CCL) is looking to recruit a Research Specialist – Biomechanics and Gait Services to develop and launch a new gait laboratory and associated biomechanical assessment service.
Duties will include:
- Defining and designing the end-to-end clinical service offering
- Establishing the technical, clinical, and data infrastructure required to deliver a scalable biomechanics service.
- Working with Cleveland Clinic London estates and operational teams to identify appropriate physical space and oversee room modifications in line with technical and clinical requirements.
- Liaising with external technology providers to specify, procure, and implement appropriate hardware and software solutions aligned with clinical and service outputs.
- Collaborating closely with clinicians to optimise biomechanical reporting and ensure outputs are clinically actionable.
- Integrating the service across orthopaedics, MSK, rehabilitation, and other medical specialities such as neurology and cardiology.
What makes us different?
Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.
What will your duties include?
- Lead the conceptualisation, design, and launch of Cleveland Clinic London’s clinical gait laboratory and biomechanics service alongside operations teams within CCL.
- Develop with relevant personnel the full clinical service offering, including assessment pathways, referral criteria, reporting formats, and integration with MSK, orthopaedic, and radiology services.
- Design, implement, and oversee technical workflows, including motion-capture protocols, data processing pipelines, validation procedures, and quality-control standards.
- Translate complex biomechanical data into clinically meaningful insights that inform diagnosis, surgical planning, and personalised rehabilitation pathways.
- Specify, procure, and implement all technical infrastructure required for the gait laboratory, including hardware, software, and room fit-out, maintaining oversight of service contracts, upgrades, and equipment lifecycle management.
- Work with internal CCL teams to ensure physical space, estates requirements, and governance processes are aligned with project objectives.
- Liaise with external technical specialists and vendors where required, identifying capability gaps and contracting appropriate expertise to support service delivery.
- Design and implement operational systems to support scalability, including staffing models, clinician and technician workflows, booking pathways, patient flow, and utilisation of equipment.
- Lead clinician and technician training and upskilling in biomechanics, gait interpretation, and motion-analysis technologies.
- Maintain strong multidisciplinary relationships with surgeons, physiotherapists, radiologists, operational teams, and senior leadership.
- Support and maintain active research collaboration with Imperial College London, enabling shared projects, translational research, and publishable outputs that enhance the service’s academic profile.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards, data governance requirements, and best practice in clinical and technical delivery.
- Provide long-term strategic oversight of the service, transitioning day-to-day delivery to trained staff once established, while continuing to lead innovation, optimisation, and service evolution.
- Partner with Cleveland Clinic (Ohio) research and innovation teams on gait-related R&D, contributing to cross-site projects, protocol development, validation studies, and translation of new biomechanics capabilities into clinical practice.
Other duties as assigned.
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What we need from you?
- PhD in clinical biomechanics, gait analysis, MSK/Orthopaedic Medical sciences, or a related field.
- Undergraduate degree in a relevant clinical discipline
- Strong experience working within patient clinical environments, with a good understanding of patient pathways, patient-facing service delivery, and multidisciplinary stakeholder management.
- Experience in motion analysis, biomechanics, and translating technical data into clinically meaningful outputs.
- Proven ability to lead and develop new clinical or innovation-led services across clinical, technical, and operational teams.
What can we offer you?
As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
Life Assurance, Private Medical & Dental Insurance and Eye Care contributions
Discounted gym facilities
24/7 Holistic Employee Assistance Programme
Workplace Nursery Scheme
Season Ticket Loan
Cycle to Work Scheme
Who we are?
Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.
With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.
If you would like to know more, please email
[email protected].
Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”
As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.
CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.
