Description
We are a UK-based B2B health tech start-up with a digital solution that prepares children and their families for medical procedures to reduce anxiety and improve health outcomes. We have recently closed a £6M Series A investment raise and have ambitious plans. Little Journey is revenue generating, and we are currently working towards Product-Market-Fit, repeatability, scalability and internationalisation. This role will be pivotal in ensuring all internal and external business efforts align with the highest standards of physical and psychological paediatric care.

As Clinical Lead, you will be the go-to clinical expert for the Little Journey team, bringing clinical knowledge and credibility to the table, to support our product decisions, content delivery and clinical safety of our solution. This role will focus on:

1. Content Creation and Delivery:
   Use your clinical background and knowledge of healthcare procedures and processes to Lead on the creation of age-appropriate, scalable content—both digital and physical—for international healthcare organisations  and clinical trials that incorporate behaviour change frameworks. You will liaise with a small group of freelance copywriters, agencies and our internal team.
2. Product Efficacy and Expansion:
   Provide clinical expertise in the development of new Little Journey platform features and modules, including strategies to support uptake and adoption within hospitals (research facilities and standard care). This is working closely with our product managers.
3. Clinical safety
   Perform clinical risk assessments of our products, ensuring compliance with DCB 0129 and DCB160 standards. Develop scalable, repeatable processes that safeguard our clinical standards.
4. External Representation:
   Represent Little Journey at events, in publications and on social media positioning Little Journey as a thought leader in paediatric clinical innovation and evidence-based practice.
5. Evidence Generation – Collaborate with our Evidence manager to ideate and develop of research papers and clinical evidence studies, collaborating with academic and industry partners to publish findings that demonstrate the impact of Little Journey. This will require building an external network of clinical champions to support research efforts and advocate for Little Journey
6. Adoption and sale of Little Journey: using clinical credibility to support the sale of Little Journey, connecting with fellow clinicians globally to answer clinical queries, ensure their clinical needs are met with our product.

Collaboration and Teamwork:

• Work closely with the Evidence Manager to integrate clinical insights into the design and dissemination of our evidence base.
• Collaborate with our data team and engineers to ensure that clinical reasoning informs data metrics and their interpretation.
• Work with our product and research team to ensure quality content is produced and utilised in our solutions, to effectively drive the business towards its mission of revolutionising the way the world delivers paediatric care through empowering families with knowledge and preparation techniques.
• Train and inform the internal teams to support a deeper understanding of clinical content, pathways and ways of working.
• Work alongside our regulatory and governance team to ensure we’re abiding by clinical and regulatory standards.

About You

• Clinical background in paediatrics, child psychology, nursing, or a related field.
• Experience in digital health, patient engagement, or behaviour change interventions.
• Strong communication skills to engage with clinicians, researchers, and commercial teams.
• A passion for improving patient experiences and driving innovation in healthcare.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing company and adapt to new challenges.

Requirements

Must Have:

•  Healthcare professional with extensive understanding of paediatric healthcare pathways and hospital procedures.
• Strong understanding of evidence generation and RWE.
• Good understanding of digital health product development
• Confident public speaker with strong written communication skills for diverse audiences.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with digital health standards (DCB 0129, DCB 0160).
• Experience in behaviour change strategies or child psychology.
• Experience presenting findings at conferences or within influential publications

·       28 days annual leave pro-rata (plus public holidays)

·       Flexible working with core hours

·       Up to 6% pension match

·       Enhanced (parental) leave policies

·       £500 annual L&D budget

·       £200 one-off work from home allowance

·       £50 annual wellbeing budget

·       Friendly and collaborative team who value and respect each other

About Little Journey

Little Journey was founded in 2018 by Dr Chris Evans and Sophie Copley. As an anaesthetic doctor and father himself, Chris witnessed first-hand the distress experienced by children and families coming to hospital for surgery. Partnering with Sophie, an expert in human-centred product design, they created a prototype version of the Little Journey app to support children undergoing elective surgery.

Since then, the business has accelerated quickly, having been adopted in more than 100 healthcare organisations worldwide. We also partner with leading organisations such as LEGO and top tier pharmaceutical companies. They provide us global access to paediatric services and clinical research, helping us reach more children. We received investment from internationally leading VC funds and are using this to scale further into other markets. Our technology is already available in 16 languages and counting! Over vision is to change the future of ​personalised paediatric care​ one empowered family at a time​.

 Our teams are grouped into Commercial, Operations, Product, and Technology, Operations, departments, and we are hiring talent across all these functions to help us achieve our mission.

Diversity & Inclusion

We encourage people from all walks of life to apply and strive to eliminate unconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process, to help accommodate any disabilities, please do let us know on maarty@littlejourney.health