Senior Medical Lead

Doccla UK Limited; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Doccla, a cutting-edge health tech startup, is seeking a Senior Medical Lead to drive clinical strategy and governance. This high-impact role is ideal for a GMC-registered doctor with over 5 years of leadership experience in clinical settings. Join us to enhance patient-centered care through innovative solutions in the burgeoning field of remote healthcare.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible remote working options

Employee stock options

Health and wellness benefits

Daily lunch provided at HQ

Qualifications

• Must have extensive leadership experience in a clinical setting.
• Skilled at communicating and motivating teams.
• Passionate about service improvement through innovation.

Responsibilities

• Support Chief Medical Officer in clinical, product, and governance strategy.
• Guide clinical input into digital product development.
• Ensure safe and effective care delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Digital Literacy

Education

GMC-registered medical doctor

Postgraduate qualification in healthcare leadership

Job description

A Bit About Us

We're Doccla, the virtual ward company. We provide patients and clinicians with the transformative power of remote patient monitoring.

Our existing customers are Hospitals, Community Services, and NHS Commissioners that we partner with to deliver tech enabled virtual wards. With our technology, logistics, and support patients can be discharged from a hospital ward to a virtual one and recover in the comfort of their own homes. Patients love our care pathways and health services become more efficient; it's a win-win.

Doccla is a growing health tech startup; we have secured a £35ml at Series B, led by European VC Lakestar, with new investors French VC Elaia and existing investors General Catalyst, Speedinvest and the investment leg of German media company Bertelsmann also participating. We're solving real problems for patients and health systems and we are growing at exceptional speed. We're looking for dedicated people with a passion for solving the problems in healthcare.

This is your chance to join us at a key stage of our growth. Our ambition is to be a category leader for virtual healthcare. You will be joining a highly entrepreneurial team that combines technical, clinical, operational, and commercial colleagues.

What you'll do as a Senior Medical Lead

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Senior Medical Lead to support the Chief Medical Officer in delivering Doccla’s clinical, product, and governance strategy.

This is a high-impact leadership role suited to a generalist clinician (e.g. Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, or General Practice) with a strong clinical background, proven leadership experience, and an ability to bridge frontline practice with digital innovation.

You will work closely with the CMO to shape service models, guide clinical input into digital product development, and support the Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) to ensure safe, effective, and compliant care delivery.

Experience or interest in AI-enabled healthcare technologies is highly desirable, particularly where it supports proactive care, workflow automation, or intelligent clinical support.

Requirements

The post holder must have extensive leadership experience in a clinical setting. They must be able to work well in a flexible environment with a multidisciplinary team (including non-clinicians). They must be skilled at communicating and able to motivate teams to achieve quality outcomes.

Above all, the post holder must be passionate about service improvement through innovation and patient-centred care.

Qualifications - Essential

• GMC-registered medical doctor with a licence to practise in the UK

Qualifications - Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in healthcare leadership, informatics, digital health, or AI

• Training or certification in clinical safety, risk management, or related areas

Experience - Essential

• Over 5 years’ experience in clinical practice, with strong grounding in acute or community settings

• At least 5 years in clinical leadership, including supervision, mentorship, or line management

• Experience working with or alongside non-clinical teams (e.g. product, tech, operations)

• Active contribution to digital product development or service redesign

Experience - Desirable

• Involvement in clinical safety processes, such as DCB0129, safety cases, or hazard logs

• Experience advising or working with a Clinical Safety Officer

• Exposure to AI technologies or data science in a healthcare setting

• Work in a start-up, scale-up, or digitally enabled service model

Skills & Attributes

• Strategic thinker with a strong clinical foundation and commitment to patient-centred care

• Pragmatic ‘doer’ who takes ownership, works at pace, and delivers real-world impact through action

• High digital literacy and enthusiasm for working in agile, cross-functional teams

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Sound understanding of clinical governance, quality, and risk

• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities

• Confidence representing the organisation externally and in clinical-commercial forums

How we work

We empower everyone to take ownership and responsibility for the company and their role within it. We act ethically and think of helping patients and protecting their safety first.

Whatever your role is, to thrive at Doccla, a can-do and action oriented attitude is essential. As is being a clear and open communicator who is receptive to feedback.

Our team is hybrid with offices in London, Denmark, Germany & Stockholm. Most of the team lives in and around London and visits the office one to three times per week to enjoy in person meetings, free lunch with the team, and the general perks of a WeWork with a glorious barista. The extent of remote vs office working will depend on your role, as some roles have the flexibility to be fully remote.

We have an employee equity pool that you can be part of so that as the company continues to grow you'll have a share in its success.

Some of our employee benefits include

• Annual Leave & Holidays:
  • 25 days of annual leave plus up to 8 bank holidays per year.
  • Flexibility to buy or sell holidays back to the company.
• Remote Working:
  • Flexible Remote Work: Options to work remotely, giving you the freedom to balance work and life.
  • Home Office Setup: £200 remote working stipend to enhance your home office.
• Financial Benefits:
  • Employee stock options.
  • 4% pension on full basic pay.
  • ️ 4x basic pay for Life insurance.
• Health & Wellness:
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  • 4 weeks full pay for the non-birthing person.*
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• Workplace Perks (if not remote):
  • Daily lunch provided at HQ.
  • Pet-friendly office
• Other benefits include:
• £500 Learning & Development budget per employee.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• via Smart Health:
• 24/7 online GP appointments
• Mental health support
• Nutrition advice
• Fitness plans
• Second medical opinions
• Health checks
  

What do you get for all your hard work?

• A competitive compensation package (base + options) with half year and annual performance reviews.
• Work at one of the most patient focussed and client centric healthtech startups, backed by top VC firms, Lakestar, Elaia, General Catalyst & Speedinvest.
• Growth. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
  
  

Diversity at Doccla
We embrace diversity at Doccla. To build a product that is valued we need a team with all kinds of different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. That's why we're committed to hiring people from different backgrounds, race, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.

We understand that applying for a new job takes a lot of work and we really value your time. We are really looking forward to reading your application!

Safer Recruitment

Doccla is committed to the principles of safer recruitment, ensuring that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults is central to our recruitment processes.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required for all posts with access to children or vulnerable adults. Please note that it is an offence to apply, offer or accept to do any work with children (paid or unpaid) if disqualified from working with children.