Medical Director - Pathology, UK

As the UK Medical Director - Pathology, at Unilabs UK, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing the medical team to deliver high-quality pathology services.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Member of the Country Leadership Team (CLT) responsible for key areas below:
2. Reporting pathology cases: Actively involved in your specialty or expertise.
3. Designing and owning the UK medical strategy: alongside the Medical Director and General Manager, UK.
4. Medical Management: Overseeing all medical operations, quality assurance and audit support, ensuring adherence to quality reporting standards, best practice implementation, and managing clinical troubleshooting on all client and organisational queries.
5. Pathologist recruitment, management, and retention, networking, knowledge development, standardisation of clinical reporting and advancing digital pathology.
6. Brand Ambassador: Representing UNILABS in medical conferences and events, contributing to commercial activities to drive business growth working alongside commercial and operations for better customer engagement.

Areas of Work:

1. Leadership & Administration: Overall responsible for Medical Pathology administration in Unilabs UK, leading the Unilabs Histopathology Service, building a strong medical team, maintaining compliance and competency paperwork for pathologists, and supporting pathologists with their annual appraisal.
2. Member of Country Leadership Team (CLT): Supporting the management in defining strategy and operational decisions, bringing scientific team requests to discussions.
3. Medical Governance/Advice: Contributing medical aspects to UK projects, helping customers perceive Unilabs as a cutting-edge diagnostic lab group, medical consultancy for marketing and sales teams, and approving scientific content for customer-related publications.
4. Quality, Audit, Adverse events: Working with QA head, legal department, and global colleagues on medical and clinical quality, understanding policies related to medical incidents, advising on risk assessments, and building a culture of transparency.
5. Innovation/Scientific content/Publications: Helping maintain a competitive edge by identifying new products, ensuring compliance with UK health care regulations, and advocating for scientific publications.

Direct Reporting Line into:

1. Unilabs Global/Cluster/UK Medical Director responsible for UK.
2. Daily working partnership with Medical Director and Country Manager, UK.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Qualified Medical Doctor on Specialist GMC register, with license to practice and report Pathology/Cytology cases in the UK.
2. Significant experience in pathology practice, with leadership and management proficiency in digital pathology and reporting.
3. Knowledge of the UK healthcare system, including NHS and private sectors.
4. Strong understanding of medical best practices and quality assurance standards.
5. Leadership experience in NHS or private settings, ideally in a professional diagnostics laboratory environment.
6. Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex medical issues.
7. People Management experience with excellent communication skills.
8. Ethical, professional, and team working attitude with the ability to lead or influence key stakeholders.
9. Ability and willingness to travel within the UK to customer and/or Unilabs sites.
10. Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.