# Consultant - General Medicine/Outliers

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** Royal Cornwall Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** General Internal Medicine
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 pa pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time,
- **Closing date:** 2026-12-14T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15T13:32:15.067Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cornwall/Truro/Royal_Cornwall_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Medicine/Medicine-v8347749
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8347749?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalcornwall.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic Consultant Physician to join our General Medicine/Outliers team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality care for general medical patients, with a particular focus on the management of medical outliers across the Trust.

Working as part of a supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred care, helping to optimise patient flow, improve outcomes, and enhance the patient experience. The post offers opportunities to support service development, quality improvement, teaching, and clinical leadership.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician who is passionate about delivering exceptional general medical care and helping to shape innovative models of care within a forward-thinking organisation.

### Main duties of the job

- Providing high-quality consultant-led care for patients including those placed in outlying wards across the Trust.
- Undertaking regular ward rounds and clinical reviews to ensure timely assessment, treatment planning, and discharge decision-making.
- Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient flow, reduce length of stay, and support safe discharge pathways.
- Providing senior clinical leadership for the management of deteriorating and complex medical patients.
- Supporting the delivery of care across medical outlier areas, ensuring patients receive care equivalent to that provided within specialty wards.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information please see the attached document below for the job description and person specification.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working in General Medicine.
- Teaching (Medical students, peers, MDT).
- Experienced in Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance and the benefits of how this improves the quality of care provided to patients and ensuring this is embedded in clinical practice.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- GMC Registration with a licence to practice
- GMC Specialist Register or within six months of obtaining CCT (or equivalent) at time of interview.

## Documents

- [information letter - rcht (pdf, 485.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1853)
- [consultant in general medicine and outliers (pdf, 520.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10673935)

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