Associate Medical Director

Hesta Health Limited; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity options

Flexible hybrid working

Office facilities in London

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Hesta Health is seeking an ambitious, clinically excellent Associate Medical Director to lead its multidisciplinary clinical team, own governance, safety and quality, and drive service design and training.

The role is four days per week, hybrid London-based, with regulatory accountability and hands-on patient care, plus opportunities to shape women’s health care through AI-powered postnatal services.

Qualifications

• Registered doctor with a GMC licence to practise.
• Experience in perinatal or women's health is desirable.
• Proven leadership in clinical governance and service management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multidisciplinary team and oversee governance processes.
• Own continuous improvement, incident management and risk review.
• Oversee training design and clinical SOPs/CQC policies.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and patient safety.
• Translate insights into improved care pathways and services.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Patient safety

Regulatory knowledge

Regulatory engagement

Medical governance

Education

Medical degree

Job description

Associate Medical Director

Hesta Health, an early-stage women's health startup building AI-native postnatal care, is hiring an Associate Medical Director to lead its multidisciplinary clinical team and own CQC governance, safety and quality. It's a four-days-a-week, hybrid London role combining clinical leadership, regulatory accountability, training design and hands-on patient care.

About Hesta Health

Hesta is creating a new benchmark in women’s health, delivering exceptional care at every life stage. As we advance towards this goal, we are committed to closing the women’s health gap, beginning with pregnancy and postnatal as our initial focus. 75 million years of women’s lives are lost every year due to poor health or early death. This gap limits potential, drives inequality, and reflects a healthcare system that wasn’t built for women. We are changing that. View all open positions

Hesta Health is setting a new standard for women's health, starting with pregnancy and the two years after birth. We combine compassionate, evidence-based clinical care with technology built at the forefront of AI-native healthcare. We raised one of the largest pre-seed rounds in women's health in Europe last year, alongside grant funding.

Within months of founding we operationalised a CQC-registered multidisciplinary healthcare service, have already cared for hundreds of women, and been featured in The Times.

Cofounders:

Dr Sujitha Selvarajah (NHS OBGYN Doctor, global public health background, worked with the WHO and The Lancet, and ex-researcher at Oxford and UCL)

Amanda Cupples (ex-Managing Director, Airbnb UK, Northern Europe and MEA; ex-COO, Babylon; ex-McKinsey and Deluxe)

Supported by world-leading clinical, product, and technology advisors, and backed by investors including Eka, Blue Lion, Ascension, and others.

We're early-stage: genuine ownership, genuine impact, and the chance to build something that doesn't exist yet, that changes millions of lives.

What women who've used Hesta are saying:

"Surpassed any expectations. Highly recommend."

"I have never felt this listened to or heard by a GP before. I felt very empowered and supported."

What clinicians including GPs are saying:

"This is so good. Women won't even need to see the GP with this! This is even better than most GPs."

What we are looking for

Hesta Health is seeking an ambitious, exceptionally compassionate, and clinically excellent doctor to join our growing team as Associate Medical Director. We welcome applications from across the medical profession, whether you are a GP, a specialist, or a doctor whose background has taken you somewhere in between. What matters is clinical credibility, a genuine passion for women's health, and the drive to build something better to make systems level change. Opportunities like this do not come around often.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about improving health outcomes in women's health, who wants to lead a team of clinicians and help them grow, and who is energised by the challenge of building a service that does not yet exist in the way it should. You will lead the multidisciplinary clinical team, own the continuous improvement cycle, and turn every insight from care delivery into better pathways, ensuring exceptional, compassionate care is delivered and that the Hesta service gets smarter with every woman we care for.

You will be the accountable clinical lead for governance and regulatory standards across the service, holding overall responsibility for the quality and safety framework that underpins everything we do. This means setting and maintaining clinical policies and protocols to the standard our regulator expects, chairing clinical governance and risk review, ensuring robust audit, incident reporting and learning cycles are embedded across the team, and acting as the primary clinical point of contact for regulatory engagement and inspection readiness.

You will work closely with our business operations and wider team to make sure regulatory compliance is not a box ticking exercise but a living discipline that sits at the heart of how we deliver care.

Job Type: This is a minimum four-days-per-week role. We operate a hybrid model, primarily remote with in-person sessions for clinical workshops, pathway design, and team days.

What you’ll do

Lead the clinical team and oversee governance processes

Provide clinical oversight and management of the multidisciplinary clinical team, including GPs, midwives, and other clinicians

Line-manage clinical staff, including providing feedback on clinical care and supporting the recruitment and onboarding of new team members

Champion clinical excellence and be a visible, trusted leader for the clinical team

Write and ensure compliance with clinical SOPs, protocols, and CQC-related policies and processes

Lead on clinical governance, safety standards, and CQC-regulatory compliance in partnership with the rest of the team

Lead on incident management, risk identification, and the implementation of improvement actions in collaboration with the wider team

Champion patient voices by leading the complaints process, including review, investigation, escalation, and learning where needed

Support service design, growth, and improvement

Lead service improvement initiatives across clinical delivery, patient feedback, and clinician insight to identify where to focus

Help design, test, and iterate care pathways for both in-person and digital modalities

Translate improvements into clear, operationally viable changes in collaboration with the

Build the training and capability system

Design and own the clinical training framework from the ground up, including induction, onboarding, and ongoing CPD for our multidisciplinary team

Ensure clinicians are equipped to deliver high-quality postnatal care, going beyond generic training to build genuine expertise in this cohort and their needs, this will include liaising with our world-class medical advisors to input into training and service design

Champion a culture of continuous learning and psychological safety across the clinical team

Deliver clinical care (provided the care falls within the scope of services we offer and matches your clinician type)

Deliver patient-centred, thorough, and compassionate care to patients as part of their postnatal journey

Identify and manage common postnatal conditions in line with best practice and clinical guidelines

Translate diagnostic inputs into clear, actionable, and accessible insights for patients

Act as the clinical escalation lead for cases involving diagnostic uncertainty or urgent or emergency concerns

Maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records

Use insights gained from delivering care to inform ongoing refinement of clinical pathways and services

What you’ll bring

Registered doctor with a current GMC licence to practise - we welcome applications from GPs, specialists, and doctors with relevant experience across a range of backgrounds

Clinical experience working with perinatal, or women's health populations, or a demonstrated and substantive interest and relevant training in this area

At least 5 years of post-qualification clinical experience, with experience of clinical leadership or service management

Experience of remote or digital clinical practice and familiarity with digital workflows

Track record in clinical governance, patient safety, and incident management

Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to work across clinical and operational teams

A builder mindset: energised by creating things that do not yet exist, and comfortable with ambiguity, able to meet regulatory requirements and an unwavering commitment to patient safety safety within an early stage HealthTech environment

Data-informed approach to improvement, using patient outcomes, feedback, and other metrics to drive change

Experience in a health technology or digital health company

Familiarity with SaMD, CQC regulatory frameworks, or clinical governance in a startup or scale-up context

Experience designing training programmes for multidisciplinary clinical teams

Background in quality improvement, clinical audit, or service evaluation

Supervisory or line management experience

Prior involvement in clinical AI or digital health tools

Company Benefits

You are joining a winning team.

Join a small, mission-driven team where your contributions have immediate impact - work closely with the founders and have significant ownership over how Hesta grows

Competitive salary and equity options - we’re building this together

Flexible, hybrid working; our team works based on the job that needs to be done. Please note: this is a hybrid London-based role, not a remote-first opportunity. (And we don't pay for travel expenses associated with being in the office)

Office facilities: spacious working space with other innovators in Victoria, bike storage, changing facilities and a healthy supply of tea and coffee

25 days annual leave a year + public holidays