Medical Team Lead: Clinician Growth & Care

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

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.