Medical Lead

Montu; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Leave: 25 days holiday + bank

Pension Matching: Up to 5%

Private Healthcare Scheme

Work-from-home options

Growth Opportunities across teams

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

Job summary

Montu UK is seeking a Medical Team Lead to combine frontline clinical practice with leadership, mentoring, and governance across a growing clinical team. You will support junior clinicians, liaise with consultants, and shape training and supervision to ensure safe, high-quality patient care.

You will lead day-to-day clinician line management, engage with governance, and drive continuous improvement while maintaining strong relationships with consultants and the broader clinical network.

Qualifications

• GMC registration with an active licence to practise and good professional standing.
• Experience supervising, managing, or mentoring junior doctors/clinical fellows is desirable.
• Experience working alongside or liaising with consultants in a clinical or operational capacity is desirable.
• Understanding of clinical governance, incident management, complaints handling, audit, and quality improvement.
• Confidence managing sensitive people-management conversations (performance, wellbeing, escalations).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence both junior and senior clinicians.
• Experience working within digital healthcare, telemedicine, private healthcare, or fast-paced healthcare environments is desirable.
• Comfortable using clinical systems, rostering tools, and healthcare technology platforms.
• Adaptable, proactive, and solutions-focused, with a genuine interest in developing junior talent.

Responsibilities

• Act as named line manager for a cohort of clinicians, providing day-to-day leadership, coaching, and pastoral support.
• Conduct regular 1:1s with each fellow, tracking progress against objectives, competencies, and rotation/training milestones.
• Identify clinicians who are struggling early, and put support plans in place in collaboration with consultants and HR/medical education leads.
• Assist with the onboarding and induction experience for new clinicians, including inductions, shadowing, buddy systems, and early check-ins.
• Support the management of day-to-day workforce logistics for the clinicians: rota input, leave requests, sickness/absence, and shift coverage, working with the operations team.
• Recognise and celebrate good performance, and manage underperformance or conduct concerns through appropriate, documented processes alongside our HR team.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with consultants.
• Act as the escalation point for consultants, surfacing concerns about supervision quality, caseload, or clinical support gaps.
• Coordinate consultant and JCF annual appraisals or revalidation.
• Gather and act on consultant feedback regarding clinical safety and any recurring themes.
• Support scheduling and coverage conversations with consultants (clinics, on-call, teaching sessions).
• Act as a point of escalation for complex clinical cases and patient concerns.
• Support clinicians through complaints, incidents, and governance issues involving their clinical decisions.
• Provide direct clinical mentoring, and know when to route a case to a consultant.
• Promote safe prescribing and adherence to clinical standards appropriate to clinicians' training level.
• Support compliance with clinical policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements across the fellow cohort.
• Support clinical audits and quality improvement projects, involving clinicians in QI work as a development opportunity.
• Analyse audit and incident themes specific to JCFs and use these to shape training priorities.
• Work with governance and operational teams on regulatory readiness.
• Monitor clinician workload, rota adherence, professionalism and service coverage; flag risks early.
• Contribute to process improvements that affect how fellows are supervised, elevate, or are trained.
• Track and report on team performance metrics: fellow progression, incident trends, audit outcomes, consultant feedback themes.
• Collaborate with other Team Leads to keep clinician management and consultant engagement approaches consistent across services.
• Support the induction programmes for incoming clinicians from a medical perspective.
• Identify individual and cohort-wide development needs, working with consultants and training and education teams to close gaps.
• Involvement in the organisation and/or delivery of teaching sessions and case reviews.
• Champion a culture of learning, feedback, and continuous improvement across the fellow-consultant relationship.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring juniors

Clinical governance

Communication

Job description

Are you an experienced doctor with a passion for developing others and delivering exceptional patient care?

At Montu, we are looking for a Medical Team Lead to join our growing Clinical team, combining clinical practice with the opportunity to lead, mentor and develop a team of doctors.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys supporting others, has experience providing clinical guidance and supervision, and is confident in building strong working relationships with clinicians and consultants.

You will play a key role in supporting the professional development of our Junior Clinical Fellows (JCFs), helping them build confidence, develop greater clinical autonomy and deliver safe, high-quality patient care.

As we continue to grow, this is an opportunity to bring your clinical expertise and leadership skills into an evolving area of healthcare, helping to shape and support the next generation of clinicians while making a meaningful difference to patients' lives.

What is the job?

As a Medical Team Lead, you will provide day-to-day leadership, support and guidance to a team of clinicians, ensuring they are well-supervised, well-supported, and progressing safely towards greater clinical autonomy. You will act as the primary link between clinicians and consultants, coordinating supervision, escalation pathways, and feedback loops so that patient care stays safe and consistent.

You will combine your own clinical practice with people leadership, taking ownership of fellow development, consultant engagement, governance, and training within your team, while working alongside other Team Leads to keep standards consistent across the wider service.

You will be the first point of contact for JCFs requiring guidance on professional or personal development and appraisal or revalidation. You will also act as a trusted contact for consultants raising concerns about supervision and workload.

What will you be doing?

Clinician Line Management

• Act as the named line manager/lead for a cohort of clinicians, providing day-to-day leadership, coaching, and pastoral support.
• Conduct regular 1:1s with each fellow, tracking progress against objectives, competencies, and rotation/training milestones.
• Identify clinicians who are struggling early, and put support plans in place in collaboration with consultants and HR/medical education leads.
• Assist with the onboarding and induction experience for new clinicians, including inductions, shadowing, buddy systems, and early check-ins.
• Support the management of day-to-day workforce logistics for the clinicians: rota input, leave requests, sickness/absence, and shift coverage, working with the operations team.
• Recognise and celebrate good performance, and manage underperformance or conduct concerns through appropriate, documented processes alongside our HR team.

Consultant Engagement

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with consultants.
• Act as the escalation point for consultants, surfacing concerns about supervision quality, caseload, or clinical support gaps.
• Coordinate consultant and JCF annual appraisals or revalidation.
• Gather and act on consultant feedback regarding clinical safety and any recurring themes.
• Support scheduling and coverage conversations with consultants (clinics, on-call, teaching sessions).

Clinical & Patient Support

• Act as a point of escalation for complex clinical cases and patient concerns.
• Support clinicians through complaints, incidents, and governance issues involving their clinical decisions.
• Provide direct clinical mentoring, and know when to route a case to a consultant.
• Promote safe prescribing and adherence to clinical standards appropriate to clinicians' training level.

Governance, Quality & Audit

• Support compliance with clinical policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements across the fellow cohort.
• Support clinical audits and quality improvement projects, involving clinicians in QI work as a development opportunity.
• Analyse audit and incident themes specific to JCFs (e.g. common escalation triggers, training gaps) and use these to shape training priorities.
• Work with governance and operational teams on regulatory readiness.

Operational Excellence & Change

• Monitor clinician workload, rota adherence, professionalism and service coverage; flag risks early.
• Contribute to process improvements that affect how fellows are supervised, elevate, or are trained.
• Track and report on team performance metrics: fellow progression, incident trends, audit outcomes, consultant feedback themes.
• Collaborate with other Team Leads to keep clinician management and consultant engagement approaches consistent across services.

Training & Education

• Support the induction programmes for incoming clinicians from a medical perspective.
• Identify individual and cohort-wide development needs, working with consultants and training and education teams to close gaps.
• Involvement in the organisation and/or delivery of teaching sessions and case reviews.
• Champion a culture of learning, feedback, and continuous improvement across the fellow-consultant relationship.

This list is not exhaustive. As the business evolves, responsibilities may change and develop over time.

What do you need?

• GMC registration with an active licence to practise and good professional standing.
• Experience supervising, managing, or mentoring junior doctors/clinical fellows is desirable.
• Experience working alongside or liaising with consultants in a clinical or operational capacity is desirable.
• Understanding of clinical governance, incident management, complaints handling, audit, and quality improvement.
• Confidence managing sensitive people-management conversations (performance, wellbeing, escalations).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence both junior and senior clinicians.
• Experience working within digital healthcare, telemedicine, private healthcare, or fast-paced healthcare environments is desirable.
• Comfortable using clinical systems, rostering tools, and healthcare technology platforms.
• Adaptable, proactive, and solutions-focused, with a genuine interest in developing junior talent.

What we offer:

• Generous Leave: 25 days holiday (rising to 27 after year one and 30 after year three) + 8 bank holidays
• Pension Matching: Up to 5% employer matching contributions
• Private Healthcare Scheme
• Flexibility and Wellness: Work-from-home options, cycle-to-work scheme, and more
• Growth Opportunities: Collaborate across teams and represent Montu at events, with support to grow your skills and impact
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

About Us

Montu UK is a leading digital health company specialising in cannabis-based medicines (CBPM), dedicated to improving patient access to safe and effective treatments. Our mission is to transform lives by combining innovative technology with high-quality clinical care, ensuring patients receive the support they need at every step of their journey.

As a fast-growing organisation, we offer a collaborative and supportive environment where talented people can develop their careers while contributing to meaningful change in healthcare. At Montu UK, your work has a direct impact on improving patients' lives and expanding access to modern medical treatments.