Healthcare systems are struggling; our solution is communication.
We have a bold vision: everyone involved in a patient’s care - including the patient - should be able to communicate easily with each other. And we believe every NHS staff member should be using our software to make that happen. We want to make healthcare genuinely better.We are solving one of the biggest challenges of our generation, and to do this, we need the best talent possible to help us raise the bar… this is where you come in.Our products are used daily (and you will have most certainly received a message from us) by over 98% of GP practices and half of NHS hospitals, impacting millions of lives. As a Talent Lead , your role will be mission critical and you will be central to shaping the core communication infrastructure of the NHS. You'll directly enable faster, safer, and more accessible patient care
Meet the People You'll Impact & Collaborate With
Meet your Manager: “
This role will be crucial in ensuring we meet our hiring targets, not just from a filling roles perspective but ensuring we meet our ambitions hiring roadmap making Accurx a go to destination for Top Talent” Bex Tonkinson, Head of Talent
The Unique Challenges You'll Solve
This isn't just about filling roles and managing a team . You'll be working on:
- Optimising hiring practices: We balance rigorous assessment with efficiency, speed, and candidate experience. You will know how to hire the best technical talent and ideally have experience recruiting into C# or Java.
- Roadmap planning: Own the hiring roadmap for Tech, ensuring we attract and hire exceptional talent in line with strategic priorities and long-term organisational goals.
- Strong Employee Value Proposition and Employer Brand: Our compelling vision,impactful work, principles, development opportunities, managerial skill and benefits are clearly articulated to attract and retain talent.
- Team management: Inspire and lead a high-performing, commercially respected Talent team, creating a culture of accountability, innovation, and excellence across all levels.
- Raise the bar: You consistently hire candidates who are considered 'bar raisers' and you challenge your hiring managers to do the same when making hiring decisions. You act as a bar raises across the talent and wider people team.
- Talent planning: Embed strategic workforce planning capabilities to accurately forecast talent needs and proactively build diverse pipelines in anticipation of business demand
- Project Leadership: We don’t just fill roles, we look at Talent holistically to ensure we are current with our approach - for example how do we build a compelling employee brand and how do we use psychometric testing in our recruitment process.
- Be creative: Champion a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, encouraging bold thinking and agile problem solving to elevate Talent impact.
- Strategic business partnering: Operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, aligning talent strategies with business objectives to drive growth.
- Inclusive systems: Our talent practices actively foster diversity, equity, and inclusion, contributing to a culture of belonging and performance.
What We're Looking For
We need a Talent Lead who embodies our Principles and thrives on significant challenges. We're seeking the core skills below, coupled with a mindset ready for real impact.
- Driven to help fix communication in healthcare: You think critically, prioritise for impact and understand our strategic OKRs and big bets.
- You’re a driver: You’re a natural driver—proactively identifying opportunities to add value, executing independently at a high level, and consistently delivering outcomes without requiring oversight. You’re energised by constraints and thrive on solving complex problems as well as happy to roll your sleeves up and be hands on drive day to day recruitment.
- Advanced Experienced across the talent lifecycle. A seasoned expert across the full talent lifecycle, you consistently deliver bar-raising hires and lead strategic talent initiatives that shape how we attract, assess, and retain top talent
- Vision: In partnership with the Head of Talent, you shape the vision and future direction of how we scale exceptional Tech talent at Accurx—ensuring alignment with business strategy and long-term growth
- Adaptable, resilient and move with pace: You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, remaining calm and focused amid complexity.
- Data-driven: You use data to inform decisions, measure impact, and continuously improve processes.
- A strong relationship builder: You will be a master at building relationships with your stakeholders in the business, your team, external stakeholders and candidates.
- Embrace Challange: You’re unafraid to question assumptions. challenge the status quo, and bring fresh, strategic thinking to the table—while remaining open to feedback and differing perspectives.
- Tech-Curious & Commercially Engaged: You bring a genuine curiosity about technology and a deep interest in the work of Engineering teams—seeking to understand their challenges, motivations, and how to effectively attract the talent that drives innovation.
Our Principles in Action
- Fix healthcare communication: Healthcare systems are struggling; our solution is communication - all of our efforts are centred here.
- Raise the bar: We have built an exceptional team to solve hard challenges. We hire for expertise and new ideas, maintaining high standards, giving honest feedback, and only delivering work we're proud of.
- Be a driver, not a passenger: We make things happen, focus on the right problems, and bring the energy to deliver ambitious goals.
- Succeed together: We succeed only as a team. Our mission is too important for anything less, so company success always comes first.
- Move with urgency: We’re on a mission, and every day lost is a missed opportunity to improve lives. We work at pace and focus on our mission, our users, and our impact.
- Be relentlessly resourceful:. We embrace constraints as they force us to think differently, be creative, and focus.
- Embrace challenge:. We value constructive conflict over harmony, having tough conversations for the best outcome.
What We Can Offer
We believe in supporting our team to do their best work, and thrive both professionally and personally.
- £60,000 - £80,000 plus share options
- Access to Happl - a flexible benefits provider with a given budget of £600 to spend on perks of your choice. Options include private health insurance, wellness providers and more
- Flexible Working: We are an office first culture and ask you are in at least 3 days a week.
- Enhanced parental leave policy
- We have our very own Chef! Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!
- And much more.
Like the sound of this role and want to know more about the company? Here's more about us...
We’re a fast-growing healthcare technology company which makes it easier for patients and healthcare teams to communicate.Accurx is where conversations happen with and about patients. Our software helps doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators and other professionals to seamlessly connect with both patients and each other.Our mission is simple: everything we do is to make patients healthier and healthcare staff happier. Today, Accurx is used in 98% of GP practices nationwide and every day more healthcare professionals are using our software in hospitals, pharmacies, care homes and the community.We’re passionate about staying close to our users, which is why everyone at Accurx visits a GP practice at least twice a quarter to understand how a practice runs, the difficulties they face with technologies and how we can help.Head over to our main careers page to find out more about the team and our candidate hub.You can also find out more about us on Medium, LinkedIn and Twitter & Instagram.Our YouTube channel is full of demos of our product, webinars we have held with our users and some clips about life at Accurx.
Diversity & Inclusion
Accurx is committed to being an inclusive employer. As part of this, we’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the interview process.
Pre-employment Screening
All successful candidates are asked to complete a
Basic DBS
check along with other pre-employment checks (referencing & right to work). You can find more on our process here. If you’d like to ask questions before you apply please email jobs@accurx.com.
