Medical Director

Job summary SELDOC is seeking an experienced Medical Director to shape our clinical direction and support the development of our services.
Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will join our Executive Leadership Team and Board, with overall responsibility for clinical safety and effectiveness across the SELDOC Group.
As Medical Director, you will give equal focus to clinical governance and external engagement: ensuring safe, effective care while building relationships with competitors, GP federations and other providers to raise SELDOC Groups profile, develop partnerships and create opportunities for new services.
You will bring clinical judgement to strategic decisions, helping identify opportunities, develop services and build partnerships that improve patient care and support sustainable growth. Leading the Clinical Governance and Quality team, you will ensure effective oversight and provide the Board with clear assurance on quality, performance and risk.
Main duties of the job You are a practising GP and experienced Medical Director with a strong understanding of urgent care and the governance that underpins safe, appropriate and timely services.
You enjoy the pace of Urgent Treatment Centres and understand their contribution to patient flow and four-hour Emergency Department performance.
You combine clinical credibility with strategic thinking and commercial awareness. You are motivated by developing better care within a sustainable business that benefits patients, colleagues and wider stakeholders., Building on 30 years of GP-led care, SELDOC is seeking an experienced Medical Director to shape our clinical direction and support the development of our services.
Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will join our Executive Leadership Team and Board, with overall responsibility for clinical safety and effectiveness across the SELDOC Group.
As Medical Director, you will give equal focus to clinical governance and external engagement: ensuring safe, effective care while building relationships with competitors, GP federations and other providers to raise SELDOC Groups profile, develop partnerships and create opportunities for new services.
You will bring clinical judgement to strategic decisions, helping identify opportunities, develop services and build partnerships that improve patient care and support sustainable growth. Leading the Clinical Governance and Quality team, you will ensure effective oversight and provide the Board with clear assurance on quality, performance and risk.
Your role:
Shape clinical strategy: Work with executive colleagues to deliver the Groups growth and development strategy, ensuring clinical quality informs business decisions.
Develop services and partnerships: Work with commissioners, NHS trusts and community partners to review care pathways, develop services and identify opportunities across the healthcare market.
Support business development: Provide clinical leadership for tender submissions, presentations and the design of safe, effective and commercially sustainable services.
Lead clinical assurance: Set expectations for governance and improvement, using outcomes, patient feedback, audit and performance data to guide priorities and assure the Board.
Develop clinical capability: Lead the Clinical Governance and Quality team and influence workforce planning, clinician engagement, recruitment, retention and professional development.

You will retain oversight of clinical policies, safeguarding, information governance, medicines and equipment, including the designated responsibilities in the job description. You will also join the Directors on-call rota, currently approximately one in four.
A little bit about you
You are a practicing GP and experienced Medical Director with a strong understanding of urgent care and the governance that underpins safe, appropriate and timely services. You enjoy the pace of Urgent Treatment Centres and understand their contribution to patient flow and four-hour Emergency Department performance.
You combine clinical credibility with strategic thinking and commercial awareness. You are motivated by developing better care within a sustainable business that benefits patients, colleagues and wider stakeholders., Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

You work well in a small, supportive Executive Team where accountabilities are clear and challenges are addressed together. Approachable and collaborative, you lead by example, take responsibility and bring a low-ego approach to decisions and relationships.
You must hold a primary medical qualification and a relevant postgraduate qualification, have at least five years clinical service, and hold GMC registration and Medical Performers List inclusion, both without restrictions. Your experience will include urgent care and UTC management and clinical delivery, quality improvement, multidisciplinary leadership and organisational change., Person Specification Qualifications Essential 1) Qualified doctor (MB BS or equivalent), a postgraduate qualification which may include including membership of a Royal College or equivalent, and at least 5 years clinical service.
2) Record of delivering service improvement
3) Registered on a GMC Medical Performer's List without restrictions
4) Evidence to demonstrate their clinical knowledge and skills through continuing professional development and agree to undertake an annual appraisal and any other measures introduced as a requirement for revalidation.
5) Must be a practising GP
6) Quality improvement experience or expertise
7) Understanding and experience of applying of quality improvement methodologies such as PDSA cycles and Root-Cause analysis
8) Experience of developing and managing risk frameworks and registers
9) Experience in working in primary care delivery systems including out-of-hours, unscheduled care and/or urgent care
10) Experience of Clinical Line Management and Mentoring
Experience of Urgent Care and Urgent Treatment Centre management and Clinical DeliveryX
Knowledge of Clinical Governance frameworks, NHS complaints procedure, SI framework, relevant patient safety guidance and frameworks, KPIs relevant to out-of-hours and urgent care.

Desirable Evidence of Basic Life Support Training (within last year)
Evidence of Safeguarding vulnerable Adults Training (within last 3 years)
Evidence of Safeguarding Children level 3 Training (within last 3 years)
Evidence of recent IG training (within last year)
Postgraduate training and qualification in Management or Clinical Leadership
Postgraduate training and qualification in education
Project management qualification, Qualifications Essential 1) Qualified doctor (MB BS or equivalent), a postgraduate qualification which may include including membership of a Royal College or equivalent, and at least 5 years clinical service.
2) Record of delivering service improvement
3) Registered on a GMC Medical Performer's List without restrictions
4) Evidence to demonstrate their clinical knowledge and skills through continuing professional development and agree to undertake an annual appraisal and any other measures introduced as a requirement for revalidation.
5) Must be a practising GP
6) Quality improvement experience or expertise
7) Understanding and experience of applying of quality improvement methodologies such as PDSA cycles and Root-Cause analysis
8) Experience of developing and managing risk frameworks and registers
9) Experience in working in primary care delivery systems including out-of-hours, unscheduled care and/or urgent care
10) Experience of Clinical Line Management and Mentoring
Experience of Urgent Care and Urgent Treatment Centre management and Clinical DeliveryX
Knowledge of Clinical Governance frameworks, NHS complaints procedure, SI framework, relevant patient safety guidance and frameworks, KPIs relevant to out-of-hours and urgent care.

Desirable Evidence of Basic Life Support Training (within last year)
Evidence of Safeguarding vulnerable Adults Training (within last 3 years)
Evidence of Safeguarding Children level 3 Training (within last 3 years)
Evidence of recent IG training (within last year)
Postgraduate training and qualification in Management or Clinical Leadership
Postgraduate training and qualification in education
Project management qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window)., UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Contract: Permanent Salary: 150,000 per annum, pro rata Working pattern: Three days per week On-site commitment: 60% of your contracted working week Anticipated start: January/February 2027 Base: The Smith, 145 London Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 6SR, 150,000 per annum, pro rata; corporate bonus scheme; defined contribution pension; five weeks annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service; and one weeks study leave per year, pro rata.