· Provide senior clinical leadership across assigned trials, ensuring participant safety, protocol compliance, and data integrity throughout the study lifecycle.
· Act as Principal Investigator or Sub-Investigator as required, taking accountability for medical decision-making and oversight within delegated studies.
· Provide leadership, supervision, and mentorship to Research Physicians and wider site teams, supporting capability development, competency assessment, and high standards of practice.
Trial Feasibility and Strategy
· Lead or significantly contribute to feasibility assessments, protocol reviews, and study start-up planning, working with sponsors and internal stakeholders to determine operational and clinical suitability.
· Contribute to business development activity by identifying research opportunities, supporting sponsor engagement, and providing senior medical input into proposals, bid responses, business cases, and service development initiatives.
· Review study budgets, contracts, and resource requirements from a medical and operational perspective, helping to shape commercially viable and clinically robust study delivery models.
· Maintain senior oversight of compliance with ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, ethical standards, and sponsor protocols across assigned studies.
· Lead or support investigations into protocol deviations, safety events, and quality concerns, ensuring appropriate documentation, escalation, and corrective actions.
· Support and represent EMS Healthcare during audits, inspections, and regulatory reviews, and help drive continuous improvement in governance and quality systems.
· Provide expert clinical guidance to Principal Investigators, Research Physicians, and multidisciplinary study teams to support safe and effective trial delivery.
· Act as a senior mentor for junior medical colleagues and contribute to training, induction, and the ongoing development of research capability across the organisation.
Stakeholder Collaboration
· Develop and maintain strong sponsor and client relationships, acting as a senior medical contact to support confidence in study delivery, responsiveness, and clinical quality.
· Build credible and effective working relationships with regulatory authorities, ethics committees, investigators, and senior internal stakeholders to support successful study delivery and organisational reputation.
· Collaborate with the EMS Healthcare Medical Advisory Committee and cross-functional leaders to shape clinical standards, improve services, and support organisational priorities.
· Provide senior medical oversight across multiple studies and research sites, ensuring consistent standards of safety, quality, protocol compliance, and participant experience.
· Oversee high-quality clinical trial delivery across community-based and mobile research settings, ensuring medical input supports efficient, safe, and participant-focused operations.
· Contribute to the development, review, and refinement of clinical and operational protocols, SOPs, and quality systems in line with evolving service needs.
· Represent the medical function at sponsor, client, and cross-functional meetings as required, providing senior clinical insight, escalation support, and operational oversight.