Clinical Safety Officer

A Bit About Us

We're Doccla, the virtual ward company. We provide patients and clinicians with the transformative power of remote patient monitoring.

Our existing customers are Hospitals, Community Services, and NHS Commissioners that we partner with to deliver tech enabled virtual wards. With our technology, logistics, and support patients can be discharged from a hospital ward to a virtual one and recover in the comfort of their own homes. Patients love our care pathways and health services become more efficient; it's a win-win.

Doccla is a growing health tech startup; we have secured a £35ml at Series B, led by European VC Lakestar, with new investors French VC Elaia and existing investors General Catalyst, Speedinvest and the investment leg of German media company Bertelsmann also participating. We're solving real problems for patients and health systems and we are growing at exceptional speed. We're looking for dedicated people with a passion for solving the problems in healthcare.

This is your chance to join us at a key stage of our growth. Our ambition is to be a category leader for virtual healthcare. You will be joining a highly entrepreneurial team that combines technical, clinical, operational, and commercial colleagues.

What you'll do as a Clinical Safety Officer

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Safety Officer to join our dynamic team.

The Clinical Safety Officer will play a pivotal role in our rapidly scaling health tech organisation, ensuring the safety and regulatory compliance of our cutting-edge health technology solutions. This role involves monitoring and evaluating the safety of our products, developing and implementing risk management plans, and ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in clinical safety, risk management, and regulatory affairs within the health tech industry. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to uphold the highest safety standards, ensuring our innovative solutions improve patient outcomes while adhering to regulatory requirements. 

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the named CSO under DCB 0129/0160 , leading safety governance and documentation (e.g. safety case reports, hazard logs)
• Develop and manage risk management plans aligned with ISO 14971 , ISO 13485 , and support submissions under UK/EU MDR
• Lead incident investigation, adverse event reporting, and CAPAs
• Chair hazard workshops (HAZID, SWIFT) and represent clinical safety in cross-functional meetings
• Collaborate with product, tech, QA, and clinical teams to embed safety across the product lifecycle
• (Desirable) Support or contribute to clinical research and evaluation initiatives

What We’re Looking For

• Registered clinician (MBBS, RN, Paramedic, PharmD, PhD) with NHS CSO certification
• 3+ years experience in a clinical safety role (preferably in digital health)
• Strong understanding of DCB 0129/0160 , ISO 14971 , ISO 13485 , and UK/EU MDR
• Excellent communication skills; comfortable working across technical and non-clinical teams
• (Desirable) Experience in clinical research or evidence generation
• Familiarity with tools like Radar, Jira, Confluence , or similar platforms is a plus

How we work

We empower everyone to take ownership and responsibility for the company and their role within it. We act ethically and think of helping patients and protecting their safety first.

Whatever your role is, to thrive at Doccla, a can-do and action oriented attitude is essential. As is being a clear and open communicator who is receptive to feedback.

Our team is hybrid with offices in London, Denmark, Germany & Stockholm. Most of the team lives in and around London and visits the office one to three times per week to enjoy in person meetings, free lunch with the team, and the general perks of a WeWork with a glorious barista. The extent of remote vs office working will depend on your role, as some roles have the flexibility to be fully remote.

We have an employee equity pool that you can be part of so that as the company continues to grow you'll have a share in its success.

Some of our employee benefits include

• Annual Leave & Holidays:
  • 🌴 25 days of annual leave plus up to 8 bank holidays per year.
  • 🔄 Flexibility to buy or sell holidays back to the company.
• Remote Working:
  • 🏡 Flexible Remote Work: Options to work remotely, giving you the freedom to balance work and life.
  • 💻 Home Office Setup: £200 remote working stipend to enhance your home office.
• Financial Benefits:
  • 📈 Employee stock options.
  • 💸 4% pension on full basic pay.
  • 🛡️ 4x basic pay for Life insurance.
• Health & Wellness:
  • 🩺 Private health insurance.
  • 🫄 4 months full pay for the birthing person.*
  • 👶🏽 4 weeks full pay for the non-birthing person.*
  • 🩺 Sick pay
• Workplace Perks (if not remote):
  • 🍝 Daily lunch provided at HQ.
  • 🐶 Pet-friendly office
• Other benefits include:
• 📚 £500 Learning & Development budget per employee.
• 🚲 Cycle to work scheme.
• via Smart Health:
• 24/7 online GP appointments
• Mental health support
• Nutrition advice
• Fitness plans
• Second medical opinions
• Health checks
  

What do you get for all your hard work?

• A competitive compensation package (base + options) with half year and annual performance reviews.
• Work at one of the most patient focussed and client centric healthtech startups, backed by top VC firms, Lakestar, Elaia, General Catalyst & Speedinvest.
• Growth. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.

Diversity at Doccla
We embrace diversity at Doccla. To build a product that is valued we need a team with all kinds of different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. That's why we're committed to hiring people from different backgrounds, race, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.

We understand that applying for a new job takes a lot of work and we really value your time. We are really looking forward to reading your application!

Safer Recruitment

Doccla is committed to the principles of safer recruitment, ensuring that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults is central to our recruitment processes.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required for all posts with access to children or vulnerable adults. Please note that it is an offence to apply, offer or accept to do any work with children (paid or unpaid) if disqualified from working with children.