Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant in the Acute Medicine Department at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful motivated and enthusiastic candidate to join the team based at Leighton Hospital in Crewe.  This is a fixed term post until February 2027 to cover Sabbatical Leave.

The successful candidate will be highly motivated with a passion to improve the quality of patient care.  They will have strong communication skills and be an excellent ‘Team Player’. They will value training and education.

The successful applicants must have full registration with the GMC and continue to hold a License to Practice.

Main duties of the job

The vision of the Acute Medical Unit is to consistently provide a caring, professional, high quality, efficient clinical service for patients who present with an acute medical condition to secondary care from the community, Emergency Department or following a clinic attendance.

Our values, alongside professional codes of conduct, will empower staff to deliver a high quality service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

9 PAs (DCC): which includes 1.25 PAs to cover scheduled on-call work (identified as on-call on job plan timetable).

1 core SPA PA per week to support appraisal and revalidation.

Further details about the role can be found within the attached JD.