• Job Description

  Req#: U0019-26-0015?language=en&page=11&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The Executive Medical Director is BrisDoc's senior clinical leader and the Board's accountable executive for patient safety, quality of care, clinical governance and professional clinical standards. Leading and supporting an open, supportive, learning culture.

  As an Executive Director the role provides credible, collaborative and evidence-informed clinical leadership, oversees clinical risk, and delivers clear assurance to the Board, supported by data and narrative. The post-holder oversees robust systems for clinical quality, safety, learning and professional clinical standards across all services, intervening directly where risks are significant or situations complex.

  Working as a full member of the Executive Team, the Medical Director brings clinical judgement to strategy, transformation, and system engagement , and represents BrisDoc credibly within the wider NHS. While day-to-day operational and clinical is delegated, accountability remains explicit, and the role maintains sufficient clinical engagement to ensure credibility, insight and effective leadership.

  Main duties of the job

  Clinical Governance and Safety

  • Executive accountability for clinical quality and patient safety across all BrisDoc services
  • Oversight of Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSIIs), coroner's cases, significant complaints and clinical claims
  • Ensuring effective systems for clinical learning, quality assurance and continuous improvement
  • Executive responsibility (with the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Governance) for clinical aspects of regulatory compliance and inspection readiness

  Statutory and Professional Accountability

  • Professional governance and management of concerns relating to clinical staff
  • Upholding clinical standards, conduct and governance across all clinical professions
  • Corporate Caldicott Guardian responsibilities

  Executive and Strategic Leadership

  • Full Executive Director responsibility for organisational leadership and sustainability
  • Providing clinical advice, challenge and assurance to the CEO and Board
  • Bringing a clinical perspective to strategy, digital transformation, workforce and service development
  • Representing BrisDoc as a credible senior clinical voice within BNSSG, the wider South West and beyond

  Clinical Workforce and Culture

  • Executive responsibility for clinical workforce leadership and inclusive succession planning
  • Promoting a learning culture and psychologically safe environment
  • Supporting recruitment, development and performance across clinical professions

  About us

  BrisDoc is an employee-owned social enterprise delivering urgent and primary care services for over 20 years. Our services include:

  • Severnside Integrated Urgent Care
  • In-hours primary care services
  • Specialist services including Homeless Health

  We are proud to be employee-owned, meaning every colleague is a co-owner with a genuine stake in our success.

  Details

  Date posted

  17 February 2026

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £140,000 to £150,000 a year per annum, pro rata, dependant on experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

  Reference number

  Executive Medical Director

  Job locations

  Unit 21 Osprey Court

  Bristol

  BS14 0BB

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  1. Statutory and professional clinical accountability

  Accountable for the professional governance and management of concerns relating to all clinical staff.

  Upholding professional clinical standards, conduct, and clinical governance.

  Holding Corporate Caldicott Guardian responsibilities.

  2. Clinical governance, quality, and safety

  Holding executive accountability for clinical quality and patient safety across all BrisDoc services, including Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSIIs), coroners cases, significant complaints, clinical claims, and the management of clinical risk arising from these areas.

  Executive oversight of organisational clinical learning and improvement , ensuring effective systems for incident management, learning from patient experience and feedback, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.

  Holding executive accountability for the effectiveness of clinical governance and in association with the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Governance, for organisational regulatory compliance , including inspection and contractual requirements (e.g. CQC), and providing assurance to the Board that these arrangements operate effectively in practice.

  Providing senior clinical leadership and assurance into core governance structures , including being the Executive responsible for the Clinical Quality and Performance Committee, which is formally chaired by a Non-Executive Director.

  Working in close partnership with the Director of Nursing, AHPs and Governance (DNAG) to lead and coordinate clinical aspects of organisational regulatory compliance and inspection readiness.

  Exercising senior clinical and executive judgement in high-risk, high-impact situations where issues cannot be resolved through routine governance processes.

  3. Clinical leadership within the executive team

  As a statutory Executive Director, the Medical Director shares collective responsibility for the leadership, performance, and sustainability of the organisation.

  Providing clinical advice, challenge and assurance to the CEO and Board.

  Bringing a clinical perspective to strategy, risk, digital, workforce and transformation.

  With the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, and Governance, ensuring the clinical voice and clinical considerations are central to all executive business.

  Modelling inclusive, compassionate and collaborative leadership.

  4. System leadership and partnership working

  Representing BrisDoc as a credible senior clinical voice, working with Executive colleagues to engage effectively within BNSSG, the wider South West, and any healthcare area within which BrisDoc operates.

  Influencing system-level clinical governance, responses to national requirements and the development of emerging models of urgent and primary care.

  Maintaining effective senior relationships with system partners to support collaborative working, safe service delivery, risk management, and organisational resilience, whilst protecting BrisDocs interests

  5. Strategic clinical input to service development

  Providing senior clinical input into possible new service models, bids, collaborations, innovations, and evaluation.

  Ensuring that service development and digital initiatives are informed by appropriate clinical safety and governance oversight, recognising that detailed CCIO-level leadership may sit elsewhere.

  Aligning clinical strategies and goals with organisational strategies and business goals.

  Supporting and championing new medical technologies and digital transformation of healthcare services.

  6. Clinical workforce, culture, and leadership

  Executive responsibility for clinical workforce leadership, inclusive succession planning and the development of BrisDocs clinical leadership.

  Working in partnership with the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, and Governance to ensure coherent professional leadership, clinical standards, performance management, and development across all clinical professions.

  Promoting a learning culture and psychologically safe environment.

  Supporting senior clinical and other recruitment, development, performance, and clinical education.

  7. Clinical practice

  Undertaking a proportion of clinical sessions or shifts within BrisDoc services to maintain credibility and insight.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  1. Statutory and professional clinical accountability

  Accountable for the professional governance and management of concerns relating to all clinical staff.

  Upholding professional clinical standards, conduct, and clinical governance.

  Holding Corporate Caldicott Guardian responsibilities.

  2. Clinical governance, quality, and safety

  Holding executive accountability for clinical quality and patient safety across all BrisDoc services, including Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSIIs), coroners cases, significant complaints, clinical claims, and the management of clinical risk arising from these areas.

  Executive oversight of organisational clinical learning and improvement , ensuring effective systems for incident management, learning from patient experience and feedback, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.

  Holding executive accountability for the effectiveness of clinical governance and in association with the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Governance, for organisational regulatory compliance , including inspection and contractual requirements (e.g. CQC), and providing assurance to the Board that these arrangements operate effectively in practice.

  Providing senior clinical leadership and assurance into core governance structures , including being the Executive responsible for the Clinical Quality and Performance Committee, which is formally chaired by a Non-Executive Director.

  Working in close partnership with the Director of Nursing, AHPs and Governance (DNAG) to lead and coordinate clinical aspects of organisational regulatory compliance and inspection readiness.

  Exercising senior clinical and executive judgement in high-risk, high-impact situations where issues cannot be resolved through routine governance processes.

  3. Clinical leadership within the executive team

  As a statutory Executive Director, the Medical Director shares collective responsibility for the leadership, performance, and sustainability of the organisation.

  Providing clinical advice, challenge and assurance to the CEO and Board.

  Bringing a clinical perspective to strategy, risk, digital, workforce and transformation.

  With the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, and Governance, ensuring the clinical voice and clinical considerations are central to all executive business.

  Modelling inclusive, compassionate and collaborative leadership.

  4. System leadership and partnership working

  Representing BrisDoc as a credible senior clinical voice, working with Executive colleagues to engage effectively within BNSSG, the wider South West, and any healthcare area within which BrisDoc operates.

  Influencing system-level clinical governance, responses to national requirements and the development of emerging models of urgent and primary care.

  Maintaining effective senior relationships with system partners to support collaborative working, safe service delivery, risk management, and organisational resilience, whilst protecting BrisDocs interests

  5. Strategic clinical input to service development

  Providing senior clinical input into possible new service models, bids, collaborations, innovations, and evaluation.

  Ensuring that service development and digital initiatives are informed by appropriate clinical safety and governance oversight, recognising that detailed CCIO-level leadership may sit elsewhere.

  Aligning clinical strategies and goals with organisational strategies and business goals.

  Supporting and championing new medical technologies and digital transformation of healthcare services.

  6. Clinical workforce, culture, and leadership

  Executive responsibility for clinical workforce leadership, inclusive succession planning and the development of BrisDocs clinical leadership.

  Working in partnership with the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, and Governance to ensure coherent professional leadership, clinical standards, performance management, and development across all clinical professions.

  Promoting a learning culture and psychologically safe environment.

  Supporting senior clinical and other recruitment, development, performance, and clinical education.

  7. Clinical practice

  Undertaking a proportion of clinical sessions or shifts within BrisDoc services to maintain credibility and insight.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Full GMC registration with licence to practise
  • MRCGP, or equivalent senior medical position, such that clinical participation in at least one of BrisDoc's services is feasible
  • Completion of safeguarding (Level 3) and mandatory training, or commitment to complete within six months of appointment.

  Desirable

  • Additional postgraduate qualifications relevant to leadership, governance, or quality improvement.
  • Inclusion on the NHS England Medical Performers List (to enable engagement with the clinical rota).
  • Completion of GP vocational training.

  Experience

  Essential

  • A substantial record of senior clinical leadership at Director, Associate Director, Deputy Medical Director or equivalent level within a complex provider organisation.
  • Demonstrated leadership of clinical governance, patient safety, incident management, and regulatory engagement.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively within NHS systems and multi-agency clinical environments.
  • Evidence of providing senior-level clinical assurance, challenge and advice to executive teams, Boards, or equivalent governance forums.

  Desirable

  • Experience of operating at Executive Director or Board level, with collective responsibility for organisational performance.
  • Experience of general practice and/or urgent or integrated primary care services.
  • Experience of service development, transformation, or system-level collaboration.

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • In-depth understanding of clinical governance, quality improvement, risk management, and patient safety.
  • Strong knowledge of NHS statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements, including CQC and information governance.
  • Understanding of professional clinical standards, accountability, and regulation across clinical professions.

  Desirable

  • Awareness of digital health, data-driven care, and the clinical governance implications of digital and AI-enabled change.
  • Understanding of National Quality Requirements relevant to urgent and primary care.

  Skills and Capabilities

  Essential

  • Effective and inclusive executive leadership capability, able to hold accountability and clinical risk.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence diverse stakeholders.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, complexity, and political environments through constructive collaboration.
  • Ability to delegate, develop others and build succession.
  • Ability to represent BrisDoc credibly at system level.
  • Analytical skills, including interpreting quality data and informing executive and Board-level decision-making.

  Values, Behaviours and Attributes

  Essential

  • Commitment to high quality patient care.
  • Integrity, judgement, calmness, and resilience under pressure.
  • Commitment to openness, learning, inclusion and psychological safety.
  • Demonstrates impartiality and objectivity.
  • Demonstrates good emotional intelligence (EI), strong communication skills and a collegiate approach.
  • Flexible, adaptable, and positive about change.
  • Commitment to BrisDoc values and culture.
  • Demonstrates collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leadership consistent with NHS leadership values.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Full GMC registration with licence to practise
  • MRCGP, or equivalent senior medical position, such that clinical participation in at least one of BrisDoc's services is feasible
  • Completion of safeguarding (Level 3) and mandatory training, or commitment to complete within six months of appointment.

  Desirable

  • Additional postgraduate qualifications relevant to leadership, governance, or quality improvement.
  • Inclusion on the NHS England Medical Performers List (to enable engagement with the clinical rota).
  • Completion of GP vocational training.

  Experience

  Essential

  • A substantial record of senior clinical leadership at Director, Associate Director, Deputy Medical Director or equivalent level within a complex provider organisation.
  • Demonstrated leadership of clinical governance, patient safety, incident management, and regulatory engagement.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively within NHS systems and multi-agency clinical environments.
  • Evidence of providing senior-level clinical assurance, challenge and advice to executive teams, Boards, or equivalent governance forums.

  Desirable

  • Experience of operating at Executive Director or Board level, with collective responsibility for organisational performance.
  • Experience of general practice and/or urgent or integrated primary care services.
  • Experience of service development, transformation, or system-level collaboration.

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • In-depth understanding of clinical governance, quality improvement, risk management, and patient safety.
  • Strong knowledge of NHS statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements, including CQC and information governance.
  • Understanding of professional clinical standards, accountability, and regulation across clinical professions.

  Desirable

  • Awareness of digital health, data-driven care, and the clinical governance implications of digital and AI-enabled change.
  • Understanding of National Quality Requirements relevant to urgent and primary care.

  Skills and Capabilities

  Essential

  • Effective and inclusive executive leadership capability, able to hold accountability and clinical risk.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence diverse stakeholders.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, complexity, and political environments through constructive collaboration.
  • Ability to delegate, develop others and build succession.
  • Ability to represent BrisDoc credibly at system level.
  • Analytical skills, including interpreting quality data and informing executive and Board-level decision-making.

  Values, Behaviours and Attributes

  Essential

  • Commitment to high quality patient care.
  • Integrity, judgement, calmness, and resilience under pressure.
  • Commitment to openness, learning, inclusion and psychological safety.
  • Demonstrates impartiality and objectivity.
  • Demonstrates good emotional intelligence (EI), strong communication skills and a collegiate approach.
  • Flexible, adaptable, and positive about change.
  • Commitment to BrisDoc values and culture.
  • Demonstrates collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leadership consistent with NHS leadership values.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  BrisDoc Healthcare Services

  Address

  Unit 21 Osprey Court

  Bristol

  BS14 0BB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://brisdoc.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  BrisDoc Healthcare Services

  Address

  Unit 21 Osprey Court

  Bristol

  BS14 0BB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://brisdoc.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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