Medical Director in Surrey

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 Group's 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.
• 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 us:

Established 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.

What we offer:

• £150,000 per annum, pro rata;
• Corporate bonus scheme;
• Defined contribution pension;
• Five weeks annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service;
• One week's study leave per year, pro rata.

Person Specification:

• Qualified doctor (MB BS or equivalent), a postgraduate qualification which may include membership of a Royal College or equivalent, and at least 5 years clinical service.
• Record of delivering service improvement.
• Registered on a GMC Medical Performer's List without restrictions.
• Evidence to demonstrate clinical knowledge and skills through continuing professional development.
• Must be a practising GP.
• Quality improvement experience or expertise.
• Understanding and experience of applying quality improvement methodologies such as PDSA cycles and Root-Cause analysis.
• Experience of developing and managing risk frameworks and registers.
• Experience in working in primary care delivery systems including out-of-hours, unscheduled care and/or urgent care.
• Experience of Clinical Line Management and Mentoring.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.