Medical Lead

The role

You will provide day-to-day leadership, support, and guidance to a team of clinicians. You will combine clinical practice with people leadership, including line management, consultant engagement, and clinical governance.

What you will do

• Act as the named line manager for a cohort of clinicians.
• Conduct regular 1:1s to track progress against objectives and competencies.
• Assist with onboarding and induction for new clinicians.
• Support management of workforce logistics including rotas, leave, and sickness.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with consultants.
• Act as the escalation point for consultants regarding supervision and caseload.
• Coordinate consultant and JCF annual appraisals or revalidation.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex clinical cases and patient concerns.
• Support clinical audits and quality improvement projects.
• Monitor clinician workload, rota adherence, and service coverage.

Required qualifications

• GMC registration with an active licence to practise and good professional standing.
• Understanding of clinical governance, incident management, complaints handling, audit, and quality improvement.
• Confidence managing sensitive people-management conversations.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfortable using clinical systems, rostering tools, and healthcare technology platforms.
• Adaptable, proactive, and solutions-focused.

Nice to have

• Experience supervising, managing, or mentoring junior doctors/clinical fellows
• Experience working alongside or liaising with consultants in a clinical or operational capacity
• Experience working within digital healthcare, telemedicine, private healthcare, or fast-paced healthcare environments

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (rising to 27 after year one and 30 after year three) + 8 bank holidays
• Up to 5% employer pension matching contributions
• Private Healthcare Scheme
• Work-from-home options
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

About the company

Montu UK is a digital health company specialising in cannabis-based medicines (CBPM). They aim to improve patient access to safe and effective treatments through innovative technology and clinical care.