Lead Doctor

Summary

Are you an experienced, GMC-registered doctor looking for the next big challenge? Join Second Nature as our Lead Doctor and take a pivotal role in transforming lives through innovative, patient-centred care. You’ll be at the forefront of a growing organisation that’s revolutionising obesity management, providing strategic clinical leadership, and shaping the future of healthcare delivery. This role offers the unique opportunity to oversee specialist weight management services while collaborating with a talented multi-disciplinary team. With the potential to grow into a Chief Medical Officer position, this is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious doctor passionate about making a lasting impact on public health.

Working Arrangements:

3-5 days per week (open to part-time alongside NHS work or full-time commitment).

What You’ll Do

As the Lead Doctor, you will:

• Oversee Specialist Weight Management Services (SWMS): Lead our multidisciplinary team (MDT) including dietitians, psychologists, nurses, and exercise specialists in delivering patient care, focusing on complex cases of obesity. You will be the Clinical Lead, ensuring the highest standards of care.
• Develop and Manage Prescribing Services: Establish and supervise our prescribing services, ensuring safety, quality, and effectiveness. Initially, you will do the prescribing yourself but will be responsible for creating scalable systems and processes for the future.
• Train and Support Prescribers: As the service scales, ensure prescribers are operating within their competencies, providing training, auditing their activities, and offering clinical guidance. You’ll review caseloads and support MDT members on cases beyond their expertise.
• Authorise Treatment Plans and Protocols: Define and approve treatment plans, ensuring they meet the service's clinical needs. You'll lead MDT meetings and assess clinical outcomes to enhance patient care.
• Direct Patient Engagement: Where needed, provide direct consultations and medical assessments to patients, overseeing their care and ensuring that treatment plans align with best practices.
• Enhance Clinical Programmes: Innovate and improve our clinical programmes, including Tier 2 weight management, type 2 diabetes prevention, and medication-assisted interventions.
• Support CQC Compliance: Work closely with the Registered Manager to maintain CQC standards, ensuring robust quality assurance processes are in place. You may eventually take on the Nominated Individual or Registered Manager role.
• Contribute to Research & Development: Collaborate on programme evaluations, research initiatives, and the continuous improvement of our services. You may also co-author research papers, helping to advance the field of obesity management.
• Bid Support: Assist the partnerships team in preparing bid responses for weight management service tenders, ensuring we align with clinical best practices to maximise the quality of our bids.
• Complex Case Support: Provide medical expertise to health coaches and MDT members managing complex cases, ensuring the highest level of clinical support.

What You Bring

• Clinical Expertise: Proven experience in obesity management and hands-on delivery of patient care.
• Problem-Solving: A proactive, solution-driven approach to both clinical and operational challenges.
• Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced environment and comfortable handling diverse responsibilities.
• Attention to Detail: Ensures accuracy in clinical, regulatory, and operational processes.
• Collaborative Leadership: Leads multidisciplinary teams with excellent communication and clinical insight.
• Innovation: Seeks opportunities for improvement and drives change to enhance service delivery.

Experience and Qualifications

• Essential:
• Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC)
• Specialist or special interest in obesity care
• Strong understanding of CQC governance
• Desirable:
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in clinical research with published works

The Company

The Challenge

Obesity has become a global epidemic; in the UK, we spend £9 billion a year alone on diseases like type 2 diabetes (that’s 10% of the NHS budget). What’s shocking is most of this is preventable – through sustained lifestyle and habit change.

Enter Second Nature.

We’re here to help people take control of their health. By bringing together behavioural science, technology, and incredible people, our grand mission is to eradicate the global epidemic of chronic lifestyle diseases once and for all.

Our digital habit change programme – delivered digitally through mobile and web apps – helps people to improve their lifestyle, lose weight, and ultimately reduce their risk for conditions such as type 2 diabetes.

• We've positively changed the lives of over 250,000 people
• We're rated 'Excellent' by over 7k of our members on Trustpilot
• We're growing extremely quickly & are now a profitable business
• We're one of the few consumer health brands that are commissioned by the NHS and leading health insurer, Vitality Health
• We're a leading B2C provider of GLP-1 medication-assisted weight loss programmes, and 1 of 5 NICE-approved providers to deliver these services within the NHS in the future
• Our team members stay with us for an average of 4.3 years

Benefits

• A competitive market salary, generous share options, and bi-annual performance reviews to recognise your contributions
• Hybrid working policy: 2 days/week in our West London office, the rest of the week remote working
• 25 days of holiday plus national holidays
• Quarterly company meet-ups and socials
• A budget of £200/year to spend on professional development with additional budget available for role specific training needs
• Option to join the Salary Sacrifice scheme, and Cycle to Work scheme