Job summarySELDOC is seeking an experienced
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
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 jobYou 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.
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.
About usEstablished in 1996 as a GP
cooperative, SELDOC provides urgent and primary care. Group services span
Urgent Treatment Centres, out-of-hours and community care, home visiting,
remote clinical services and workforce solutions.
Patient
First | Compassionate | Competent | Empowering | AdaptableDetailsDate posted03 November 2026Pay schemeHospital medical and dental staffGradeConsultantSalary
150 a year
per annum, pro rata
ContractPermanentWorking pattern
Full-time,
Part-time
Job description
Qualifications
Essential1) 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 improvement3) Registered on a GMC Medical Performer's List without restrictions4) 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 GP6) Quality improvement experience or expertise7) Understanding and experience of applying of quality improvement methodologies such as PDSA cycles and Root-Cause analysis8) Experience of developing and managing risk frameworks and registers9) Experience in working in primary care delivery systems including out-of-hours, unscheduled care and/or urgent care10) Experience of Clinical Line Management and MentoringExperience of Urgent Care and Urgent Treatment Centre management and Clinical DeliveryXKnowledge of Clinical Governance frameworks, NHS complaints procedure, SI framework, relevant patient safety guidance and frameworks, KPIs relevant to out-of-hours and urgent care.
DesirableEvidence 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 LeadershipPostgraduate training and qualification in educationProject management qualification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential1) 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 improvement3) Registered on a GMC Medical Performer's List without restrictions4) 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 GP6) Quality improvement experience or expertise7) Understanding and experience of applying of quality improvement methodologies such as PDSA cycles and Root-Cause analysis8) Experience of developing and managing risk frameworks and registers9) Experience in working in primary care delivery systems including out-of-hours, unscheduled care and/or urgent care10) Experience of Clinical Line Management and MentoringExperience of Urgent Care and Urgent Treatment Centre management and Clinical DeliveryXKnowledge of Clinical Governance frameworks, NHS complaints procedure, SI framework, relevant patient safety guidance and frameworks, KPIs relevant to out-of-hours and urgent care.
DesirableEvidence 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 LeadershipPostgraduate training and qualification in educationProject management qualificationDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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
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Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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
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