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.
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.
Areas of Work:
Leadership & Administration
1. Overall responsible for Medical Pathology administration in Unilabs UK.
2. Leading the Unilabs Histopathology Service via reporting of cases and Medical management of pathologists, cytologists and other medical functions.
3. Building a coherent and strong medical team in Unilabs UK and driving overall performance of the team.
4. Maintaining all necessary compliance and competency paperwork for pathologists working for Unilabs UK.
5. Supporting all pathologists with their annual appraisal as necessary.
Member of Country Leadership Team (CLT)
1. Supporting Management in defining the strategy and operational decisions for Unilabs UK from a medical pathology perspective.
2. Bringing in the requests and demands of the scientific teams of Unilabs to discussions and decisions.
Medical Governance/Advice
1. Contributing medical aspects and scientific knowledge to all UK projects, tenders and customer-related issues.
2. Helping customers and employees perceive Unilabs as a cutting-edge diagnostic lab group.
3. Providing medical consultancy to the Marketing Team and sales representatives.
4. Playing a role in approval of the scientific content of all Unilabs customer-related publications.
5. Showing leadership in medical/scientific issues or discussions between Unilabs and customers.
Quality, Audit, Adverse Events
1. Working with QA head of UK, legal dept and global colleagues on medical and clinical quality.
2. Implementing policies related to handling of medical incidents and adverse events.
3. Participating and advising on risk assessment to understand patient harm.
4. Working with CLT and global to advise on UK cases on medico-legal issues.
5. Building a culture of speaking up regarding near misses and incidents.
Innovation/Scientific Content/Publications
1. Helping Unilabs maintain a competitive edge by identifying, advising and advocating new products.
2. Ensuring new products are both technically and commercially viable.
3. Advocating or direct authorship for scientific publications.
4. Maintaining personal and organisational Continuous Professional Education.
Direct Reporting Line into:
* Unilabs Global/Cluster/UK Medical Director responsible for UK.
* Daily working partnership with Medical Director and Country Manager, UK.
Requirements:
1. Qualified Medical Doctor on Specialist GMC register, with license to practice and report Pathology/Cytology cases in UK.
2. Significant experience in pathology practice with a track record of leadership and management.
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 ability to lead or influence key stakeholders.
9. Ability and willingness to travel within UK to customer and/or Unilabs sites.
10. Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
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