We are seeking an experienced and driven Medical Team Lead to join a high-performing early phase clinical research environment. This is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing the day-to-day delivery of medical services, ensuring excellence in patient care, and guiding a team of medical professionals in a fast-paced, research-led setting.
Reporting to the Medical Director, you will act as the primary point of leadership for the medical team, ensuring strong operational performance, effective workforce management, and high-quality clinical trial execution.
The Opportunity
In this position, you will combine hands-on clinical involvement with team leadership and operational oversight. You will play an integral role in supporting clinical trials, from patient screening through to study conduct, while fostering a culture of quality, safety and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of medical staff, including physicians at varying levels
- Ensure appropriate workforce planning, rostering and coverage across clinical activities
- Promote a collaborative, accountable and high-performance team culture
- Support professional development through coaching, mentoring and training initiatives
- Provide medical leadership across multiple clinical studies, ensuring adherence to protocols, regulations and best practice
- Contribute to protocol review, study feasibility and trial design discussions
- Oversee participant screening, eligibility assessment and enrolment processes
- Monitor trial progress, ensuring timelines and quality standards are consistently met
- Maintain oversight of participant safety, wellbeing and clinical care throughout all trials
- Review and approve clinical assessments, reports, adverse events and study documentation
- Provide expert medical guidance to cross-functional project teams
- Support compliance with ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements and internal SOPs
- Act as Principal Investigator or Sub-Investigator for assigned trials
- Take responsibility for study conduct, participant safety and data integrity
- Ensure accurate, timely and complete documentation across all trials
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams, sponsors, external investigators and regulators
- Support audits, sponsor visits and regulatory inspections
- Contribute medical expertise to project start-up, feasibility and proposal development
- Partner with clinical operations and project teams to ensure seamless service delivery
- Identify risks and implement proactive mitigation strategies
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across medical services
- Ensure high standards of compliance, safety and reporting
You are a confident clinical leader with a passion for research and patient safety. You thrive in a dynamic environment and bring a balance of strong clinical expertise, operational insight and people leadership.
Essential Requirements
- Medical degree with current AHPRA registration
- Proven leadership experience within healthcare, ideally in a hospital or clinical research setting
- Significant experience in clinical trials (Principal or Sub-Investigator level)
- Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP and clinical trial regulations
- Exceptional leadership and people management capabilities
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Ability to work within structured protocols while maintaining flexibility
- Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making capability under pressure
- Join a cutting-edge clinical research environment
- Play a pivotal role in advancing innovative treatments
- Lead and shape a high-performing medical team
- Work in a collaborative, quality-driven culture
