About the company

Consultant Connect is a healthtech company helping the NHS to work better. We're a nimble team that built a platform to solve an important problem for doctors: getting a hold of other doctors.

Our platform enables a GP to get specialist advice for their patient immediately (without needing to make-and-wait for a referral). In the majority of cases, this saves a trip to the hospital. The patient gets faster care. Doctors save time. The NHS saves money. Everyone's a winner.

From our office in Oxford, we’ve grown quickly to cover a large portion of the UK. We expanded our product suite from just handling phone calls to include messaging and photos. With more and more demand from doctors and the NHS for our platform, we're growing our small, talented team to do more cool stuff.

About the team

We are the Product Development Team at Consultant Connect. We’re different from an Engineering Team or a “Tech Team”. We don’t just take a spec and write code.

We focus on solving problems. We talk a lot to our Ops colleagues. We keep a close eye on how doctors and clinical administrators actually use our stuff. Consequently, we think a lot about product design. What’s the problem? How to make it better? Which trade-offs should we make?

We move fast. In the face of uncertainty, we believe in rapid design-build iterations, rather than 20 page spec documents. We prioritise aggressively so we can quickly release MVPs to “real users in real situations”.

We’re a team of T-shaped people who have broad competency, while also being very strong in 1 or 2 areas. We aren’t a production line of specialists handing a project from person-to-person.

We support each other. We help each other with blockers and make great product through daily standups, Slack, video calls, design reviews and code reviews.

We’re always learning. If we don’t know something, we dive into it, try it over-and-over until we learn it. We give ourselves the space to upskill and continually improve.

We are light on overhead. Minimal meetings. We’re always looking for efficiency gains (e.g. release pipeline automation, working practices, etc). Minimal layers of bureaucracy.