Rehabilitation Consultant

Job overview

Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust (NUH) is looking for a fulltime Rehabilitation Consultant Physician to join an existing team of 3 NHS and academic consultants providing rehabilitation services to the people of Nottinghamshire and beyond.

Main duties of the job

The postholder(s) will be full-time Consultant Physician with responsibility for Complex Rehabilitation across Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The successful candidate should expect to work between our sites at all campuses.

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post is a for a Consultant Physician role (8 Programmed Activities) , at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, working across all parts of the rehabilitation service including the newly opening national rehabilitation centre in Loughborough.

This is a very exciting time to join specialist rehabilitation in the East Midlands. The NRC is in its advanced stages and will open to patients in Summer 2026. This is a ground-breaking 70 bed facility for NHS patients based alongside and closely connected to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford Hall. The NRC will host a national training and education centre and a research and innovation hub. Together with our academic partners, the NRC will set a new standard for rehabilitation[MD1] and a blueprint for the future.

NUH has an ambition to create a wider rehabilitation service for our patient population. Our current consultants have great opportunities to work across our tertiary centre for Major Trauma and Neurosurgery, and with an increasing number of patients with complex neurodisability and/or musculoskeletal disability require medical rehabilitation input throughout their care journey. Successful candidates will join the team to work within, and between multi-disciplinary teams so as to ensure that the very best rehabilitation care can be delivered.

We need forward-thinking, ambitious consultants whose skills and ideas will help us to deliver our plans and to thus shape the future of rehabilitation medicine in the East Midlands and nationwide. This is a unique opportunity to take rehabilitation medicine in a new and exciting direction, establishing a national reputation as a centre of clinical, research & innovation excellence.

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.