Retained Doctor / Medical Director (Part time)
About Kinship
Kinship helps people look after someone they love in Nigeria, from wherever they live. People in the UK set up a Kinship Plan for someone they love in Nigeria: the Kinship care team, Kemi on WhatsApp and a shared record, with nurse visits at home and a named Kinkeeper. Our small team works across the UK, Nigeria and Ghana, and every role helps people stay close across the distance.
The role
You are the clinical conscience behind Kinship's care. You make sure the support we give is safe and well governed, and that we are ready to escalate the moment a member needs more than companionship. You give supporters the quiet assurance that qualified medical oversight stands behind every visit. Your authority is clinical. You own the safety and governance of the care we give, the supervision of our nurses, and our clinical protocols. The running of the business, its strategy, operations and growth, sits with the founders and the operations team, and you work as a partner to them. This role suits a senior clinician who is comfortable providing focused, part time clinical governance within a founder led, technology business, rather than directing the company. This is a part time, senior appointment of approximately one day per week initially, growing with the service. You act as the named supervisory medical practitioner for the operation, oversee our telemedicine partners, and are the clinical backstop when a case becomes complex.
Main responsibilities
- Provide clinical governance for the service, upholding safe care standards and protocols
- Supervise the registered nurses and provide the clinical oversight the care team reports into
- Review and strengthen clinical protocols, and review clinical incidents
- Be the escalation support and clinical backstop for complex cases
- Act as the named supervisory medical practitioner for the service's registration and support ongoing clinical compliance
- Provide clinical oversight of our telemedicine and clinical delivery partners
- Give clinical consultation or sign off where engaged
Essential requirements
- MDCN-registered medical practitioner with a full, current and verifiable licence
- Substantial post-qualification clinical experience, with the seniority to set and hold clinical standards
- Comfortable providing clinical governance within a founder led team, focused on clinical safety rather than business or operational control
- At ease in a fast growing, technology led business and working alongside non-clinical founders
- Willing and eligible to act as the named supervisory medical practitioner for the service's registration
- Available approximately one day per week initially, with agreed response times for escalations
- Based in or close to Lagos
Nice to have
- Experience in primary care, family medicine, geriatrics or internal medicine
- Prior experience as a medical director, clinical lead or supervising practitioner
- Comfortable with telemedicine and digital health models
- Experience supporting or governing services for international or diaspora communities
Our values
How we work
Kinship exists to look after the people someone loves. That takes a particular kind of person, so we're clear about what we value and who thrives here.
Raise the bar
We hold a high standard, starting with ourselves. We'd rather do a few things brilliantly than many things adequately. If you take pride in work you'd put your name to, you'll feel at home.
Get better every day
We think talent is built, not handed out. We give feedback straight and take it well, because the fastest way to grow is to hear the truth early. Nobody here is finished.
Move fast, keep our word
We look after people someone loves, so trust is everything. We move quickly to get help into people's hands, and we never cut a corner that touches it. Fast and honest, both at once.
Own the outcome
We take problems all the way to done. No dropped batons, no waiting to be told the next step. And we build things to last, so a problem solved once stays solved.
The person comes first
Everything we do protects the person on the other end. We treat every member the way we'd want someone we love to be treated. That is the whole reason Kinship exists.
Read more about how we work on our careers page.
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