Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
24 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Enthusiasm for service development work
- Other
Ability to work with a diverse patient population
- Aptitudes
Demonstrates awareness of good decision making and aware of own limitations.
- Aptitudes
People Management Skills
- Aptitudes
Leadership Skills
- Aptitudes
Excellent communication skills in English and team working with patients, colleagues, managers and other staff.
- Aptitudes
Ability to work under pressure.
- Aptitudes
Good organisational skills.
- Aptitudes
Good team worker, able and willing to work flexibly.
- Aptitudes
Good IT skills
- Aptitudes
Willingness to work to agreed. guidelines with local management.
- Aptitudes
Enquiring, critical approach to work.
- Aptitudes
Professional integrity and respect for others.
- Aptitudes
Able to present information in a clear and concise manner.
- Knowledge
Detailed up to date knowledge of general medicine.
- Knowledge
Awareness of issue relating to practising in a more remote or rural area.
- Qualifications
MRCP (UK) or recognised equivalent.
- Qualifications
MBBS / MBChB or equivalent
- Clinical Experience
Wide experience of General Medicine in different settings, competent in managing emergency presentations.
- Teaching and Training
Willingness and ability to supervise, mentor and teach junior doctors.
- Teaching and Training
Clinical teaching experience
- Teaching and Training
Commitment to continuing medical education appraisal and clinical governance.
- GMC/Specialist Registrations
Applicants must be on the GMC Specialist Register or be within 6 months of obtaining their CCT or obtained specialist registration through CESR (CP).
- GMC/Specialist Registrations
CCT in General Internal Medicine or Acute Internal Medicine
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Medical leadership training or qualification
- Qualifications
Educational qualification e.g. postgraduate certificate in medical education
- Qualifications
Full UK driving licence.
- Clinical Experience
A special interest applicable to practice in Oban.
- Clinical Experience
Management experience
- Clinical Experience
Clinical Audit experience
- Teaching and Training
Experience of and enthusiasm in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates and members of multi-disciplinary team.
Job details
- Job reference: 256358
- Salary: Consultant (£111,430 - £148,064)
- Job closing date: 09/09/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: Lorn & Islands Hospital
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 40
- Job posted date: 11/08/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
- Department: Medical - Lorn and Islands Hospital
Lorn and the Islands Hospital is a Rural General Hospital, situated in Oban on the west coast of Scotland - one of the most beautiful areas of Scotland. We are redeveloping the model for delivering medical services, linked with colleagues in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and North Highland: there will be parallels with existing successful models of rural health care in Scotland. This is an excellent opportunity to be directly involved in shaping and delivering clinical change, to which we are committed.
We are looking for an additional Consultant Physician with excellent general medical skills and experience to join the team. A special interest complementary to the existing consultants (nephrology, cardiology, older peoples’ medicine and acute medicine) would also be welcomed). This is a Consultant Physician led service, centred on high quality health care but supporting a great work life balance. When you come to work you will deliver high quality health care to the local population, but you will not have people queueing in ambulances or waiting in corridors. Working with a small, dedicated team of experienced Consultants (surgeons, anaesthetists, radiologists and Rural Emergency Practitioners in addition to your medical colleagues) alongside residents, fantastic nurses and allied health care workers in a hospital that serves the population of Argyll, you will see your patient from one end of their hospital journey to the other, with the satisfaction that you have made a real difference to their care and experience. This is an excellent opportunity to help shape the medical service in this Rural General Hospital.
Rural Emergency Physicians, who are senior doctors usually on the specialist register in their own right from a GP or ED background, help to ensure the front door of this rural general hospital is run safely and smoothly, and support the training and supervision of the junior doctors; this reduces the time commitment to the front door for the Consultant Physicians. All Consultants provide additional support to ED as required. Sick patients can be transferred out either by road ambulance or an excellent helicopter retrieval service (ScotSTAR).
Lorn & Islands Hospital is located on the southern outskirts of Oban and forms a hub for both acute and community services within the area. Purpose built in 1995, the Hospital provides a full 24-hour medical, surgical and anaesthetic service, and an on-site radiology service. The medical and surgical consultants also provide outpatient clinics to community hospitals throughout Argyll.
The area is of one of outstanding natural beauty. The town of Oban is a tourist and commercial centre for the West of Scotland and the Isles. The port town has ferry links to the islands of Mull, Iona, Islay, Coll, Tiree, Colonsay and Lismore. There is plenty of opportunity for enjoying leisure pursuits including yachting, canoeing, walking, climbing, cycling and fishing. There is a strong culture of traditional music and dance in Argyll. It’s a great place to bring up a family with good local schools and reasonable property prices. Oban provides the advantage of a high quality of life in a rural setting with access to the main centres of Inverness, Glasgow, Stirling and Perth all within 2-3 hours travel time.
This vacancy is offered on the basis of 10 Programmed Activities per week (including 2 SPA) plus appropriate on call supplement – up to 2 additional PAs may be available by negotiation and those wishing to work less than full time will also be considered – we are open to non-standard work patterns.
Applicants are encouraged to visit the hospital and surrounding area.
For an informal and confidential chat please contact:
- Dr Elaine Spalding, Consultant Physician & Nephrologist, elaine.spalding2@nhs.scot
- Dr Emma Beveridge Consultant Radiologist emma.beveridge@nhs.scot Clinical Lead Lorn & Islands Hospital
- Caroline Henderson, Hospital Manager, caroline.henderson3@nhs.scot
Job reference: 256358
Closing date: 9th September 2026
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This advert is for Consultant Physician with NHS Highland in Oban, Scotland. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor General Internal Medicine role. The advertised salary is £111,430 - £148,064. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Sep 2026.
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