MERIT Consultant Doctor

Job summary

West Midlands Ambulance Service Medical Emergency Response and Intervention Team (MERIT) is a consultant-led doctorparamedic service based in Sandwell. This NHS-commissioned service operates 24 hours a day, responding by road to emergencies across the West Midlands. The teams principal workload is major trauma, including hyper-acute transfer and retrieval, while also providing specialist support to selected medical emergencies. In addition, MERIT plays a key role in the Trusts planned response to major incidents.

We are seeking to appoint experienced specialists in pre-hospital emergency medicine to our Consultant Bank. Successful candidates will deliver expert clinical care and provide leadership across the domains of quality improvement, education, patient safety, and clinical governance.

Successful applicants will play a key role in developing the clinical service in keeping with our vision of delivering the highest levels of clinical care in prehospital emergency medicine to the people of the West Midlands.

Applicants must hold:

A primary medical qualification (MBBS, MBChB, or equivalent)

Full GMC registration with a licence to practise

Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care (FIMC RCSEd)

A Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or equivalent, in Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, or Intensive Care Medicine

A substantive consultant appointment within their base specialty

Interviews will be held on Monday 15th or Tuesday 16th June 2026

Main duties of the job

West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating an inclusive, supportive, and accessible workplace for everyone where our colleagues feel empowered to succeed.

Each person plays a vital part to ensuring our organisation meets the differing needs of our communities ultimately enabling us to save lives. We acknowledge that a workforce that reflects the communities that it serves provide better patient care and we are therefore looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic people from all backgrounds that care about making a difference to our patients.

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity at all levels. We are proud to have maintained Disability Confident Leader status and as part of our commitments to this we guarantee to invite all applicants who meet the essential criteria for a role to attend assessment or interview. If you have a disability or learning difficulty, and prefer to disclose it, please feel free to do so in your application. You can also contact the Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@wmas.nhs.uk if you wish to have a confidential discussion. We use this information, with your permission, to ensure you are fully supported during the recruitment process.

The Trust is proud to hold the Silver Award for a Dyslexia Friendly workplace and are committed to supporting our Armed Forces community and have signed up to the Step Into Health initiative. We welcome applications from Armed Forces Veterans and Service leavers.

Job responsibilities

If this position involves a regulated activity it will require an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check. The disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children, adults or both

Where a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is required for the post, all applicants are required to cover the cost of the check.

The cost of an enhanced check is £55.76 and is payable to our online provider at the time that the DBS application is submitted. Upon receipt of your DBS you will then be required to sign up to the DBS online update service.

We do endeavour to respond to all candidates on an individual basis. Therefore we do ask for your co-operation and patience whilst the short listing process takes place. After the closing date please ensure you check your emails (including junk mail) regularly as contact is usually made via this method.

We are proud to offer flexible working options to support our colleagues to have a greater choice in when, where and how they work. During your interview we will explore this with you and discuss your individual needs and how this could be facilitated for this role to benefit patient experience, service delivery and the work-life balance of colleagues.