About Accurx
What is Accurx?
Accurx builds the software the NHS communicates through — with patients, and between the teams looking after them. Its account of how it started is unusually concrete: "In 2017 we spent six months camped out in a GP practice in Oxford, manually improving any process we could find. Over time we realised every issue we saw was underpinned by one, big, underlying problem — broken communication."
What began as a way for a GP to text a patient is now "an all-in-one digital toolkit used by 98% of GP practices", and is "used in 68% of NHS trusts". The platform spans Total Triage, Self-Book for patient-scheduled appointments, Patient Questionnaires, Accumail for staff-to-staff messaging across care settings, and Accurx Scribe, an AI note-taker that "drafts medical notes in real-time".
Where will I work?
Shoreditch, London. Accurx is direct that this is not a remote job: "We are an office-first culture and ask that you're in our (dog-friendly) Shoreditch office 3 days a week, with core hours of 10am - 4pm." Clinical hires get an extra allowance — the current Clinical Lead advert offers "1 day/week of continued clinical practice if you want to keep your hand in".
What is the Accurx team like?
Deliberately mid-sized: "At around 250 people, we're small enough for you to make your mark here, but big enough to create wholesale change in the system." The stack is "primarily C# on the backend, TypeScript and React on the frontend, running on Azure", with Python for machine learning. Colleagues arrive with "backgrounds in everything from big tech to small startups, NHS to consulting", and "everyone spends time on the frontline with users". Six principles set the tone, among them "Raise the bar" and "Embrace challenge" — which the company glosses as valuing "constructive conflict over harmony". There is an in-house chef; breakfast and lunch are provided.
Work-Life Balance
Accurx states its time-off package identically in every job ad: "You'll get 28 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) and up to 4 weeks to work from anywhere per year." It is a published, fixed allowance, not an open-ended one: neither the careers page nor any of the 19 live job ads describes time off in other terms.
Day-to-day flexibility comes from core hours of 10am to 4pm around the three-day office week, and the benefits themselves flex: "Benefits to suit you: adjust your healthcare cover, your pension or life insurance, whatever stage you're at in life", administered through Happl. Family support is "enhanced parental leave, fertility support and parental loss support" — the careers page calls it an "Advance Parental Leave Policy". There is no four-day, compressed or 32-hour week here; none of those terms appear on the site or the job board.
Perks and Benefits
- 28 days of holiday plus UK bank holidays
- Up to 4 weeks a year working from anywhere
- Meaningful share options on top of salary
- Enhanced pension scheme, adjustable to suit you
- Healthcare cover you adjust via the Happl flexible benefits platform
- Life insurance you can adjust alongside it
- Enhanced parental leave and parental loss support
- Fertility support as part of the family benefits
- Electric car and cycle-to-work schemes