Medical Consultant - Part-Time Weekend Working (12 Month FTC) in London

Job Type: Contract

Location: Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Job Category: Health, Medical & Pharmaceutical

About World Travel Protection

This role is part of World Travel Protection, our global medical and security assistance business supporting many of Zurich Cover-More’s travel insurance brands. We support both corporate and leisure travellers – helping them avoid risks before they escalate and connecting them with the right experts when emergencies arise. Operating 24/7 from our global assistance centres, we’re always ready to answer the call – wherever in the world it comes from.

This is a part-time position, working 7–15 hours per week (across 2 days) on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role will require the successful candidate to be based in our Uxbridge office one day per week.

Options Include:

• Weekend-only patterns such as: Alternate weekends (e.g., one weekend on / one weekend off, or two weekends on / two weekends off within a 4-week cycle)
• Saturdays only
• Sundays only
• Working every weekend

If you’re interested in a weekend-focused role but have a different pattern in mind, we’re very open to discussing alternative arrangements.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You’ll be responsible for the management of all requests for medical assistance from customers, medical providers and international organisations.
• You’ll provide oversight and ongoing education, supervision and support to all members of the WTP medical team.
• You’ll engage in ongoing quality assurance activities, ensuring compliance with the current WTP organisational clinical governance framework.
• You’ll be the escalation point regarding the appropriateness and necessity of medical care and/or transport, identifying customers at risk and escalating care as necessary.
• You’ll engage as the medical expert with insurers and clients.
• You’ll liaise directly with customer’s treating medical doctors in location, air ambulance providers and the customer’s local medical doctor(s) for the purpose of providing medical advice as requested by the Regional Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Services Operations Manager or Registered Nurse / Paramedic on an as needs basis.

What skills and experience you’ll bring on this journey

• You’ll currently be registered with the GMC Medical Register.
• You’ll have extensive post-graduate experience, ideally with a strong background in Critical Care medicine (Emergency Medicine, Anesthetics or Intensive Care).
• You’ll demonstrate or have a thorough understanding of the current clinical skills and knowledge required for the provision of medical assistance, ideally in an international setting.
• You’ll have knowledge of safety and quality assurance initiatives and standards in the area of critical care and retrieval medicine, including the ability to conduct audits and data analysis of key outcome measures.
• You’ll have excellent understanding and clinical proficiency in dealing with undifferentiated emergency presentations.
• You’ll possess networking skills – the ability to collaborate, cooperate and network effectively within a demanding culturally diverse, matrix organisation.

Why you’ll love working with us!

• We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
• We have more than 3000 employees worldwide.
• Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around.
• Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we rapidly expand our business across the globe.
• Take the time you need, for you and your community.
• Travel and work with us. We believe your career should take you places – literally.
• Investing in your health and your future. We offer a competitive health insurance package with comprehensive mental health coverage.
• Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity.

Apply today and let’s go to great places together!