Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine

NHS; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization is looking for an enthusiastic Locum Consultant to join their Acute Medicine Department. The role will involve managing patients in critical care units and ensuring high standards of clinical practice. The successful candidate will participate in flexible working arrangements and engage in comprehensive educational opportunities. The organization prides itself on delivering exceptional patient care and has robust structures to support professional growth and development.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Qualifications

• Evidence of independent clinical practice in Acute Medicine.
• Experience of Same Day Emergency Care.
• Experience of monitoring patients remotely (virtual ward).
• Clinical training & experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Internal Medicine.

Responsibilities

• Management of patients on the Medical Admissions Unit.
• Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues during leave.
• Sub-specialty interest in any other medical specialty can be accommodated.

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an enthusiastic Locum Consultant to join the Acute Medicine Department at University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust. The post will be based at Queens Hospital, Burton. The Acute Medicine Business Unit is proud to offer high quality clinical care within flexible and sustainable job plan structures. We positively encourage part time working or job plans split with other specialties. A number of our team operate in this way, delivering DCC in other medical specialties, including stroke medicine and Cardiology. Our vision is 'to be a pinnacle for best practice and patient care across our emergency and urgent care pathways. We will integrate our services with the wider urgent care network to ensure patients receive the best care possible at the right time and in the right place'. Our aim is to provide senior clinical decisions on patient care from the moment of arrival to discharge, with the minimum of unavoidable delay. We take pride in excellent patient care and that is why we are consistently scoring in high percentile for last three years running with SAMs audit. Further details of Roles and Responsibilities whilst fulfilling AMU shifts, Standard Operating Procedures for AMU handover and Unit Operational Standards will be reviewed during Induction with the team for the successful candidate.

Main duties of the job

There is full 24-hr middle grade cover within the Department whilst also being able to offer a proactive approach to further training, development and education, including a well-equipped Centre for simulation-based training and a very supportive educational faculty - our educational supervisors have rated highly in GMC surveys.

We have opportunities for you to undertake flexible working and would be more than happy to discuss this with you prior to interview.

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&E across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Details

Date posted: 15 December 2025

Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade: Consultant

Salary: £109,725 to £145,478 a year

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 320-MDQ-7300757-GM-A-A

Job locations

Queens Hospital Burton, Belvedere Road, Burton-On-Trent, DE13 0RB

Job description

Management of patients on the Medical Admissions Unit and Medical Same Day Emergency Care Unit at University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust, including patients referred by their GP, the Emergency Department or by other specialties. Provide Acute Medicine in-reach to Adult patients in the Emergency Department.

Responsibility for personal performance of clinical duties as agreed in their job plan, allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of staff.

Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues during reasonable periods of leave including care of patients and supervision of junior doctors and wherever possible any fixed commitments.

These are exciting times to join us at Acute Medicine business unit at Queens hospital Burton UHDB. We are planning to expand and extend our services, which include AMU, SSU, SDEC and Virtual ward.

Sub-specialty interest in any other medical specialty can be accommodated. Candidates can be accommodated for up to 2 PAs to pursue specialty of their interest. Interest in improving SDEC services and virtual ward like e,g Frailty services will be encouraged, and successful candidates will be given an extra PA to improve these services.

Person Specification

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of independent clinical practice in Acute Medicine
• Experience of Same Day Emergency Care
• Experience of monitoring patients remotely (virtual ward)
• Clinical training & experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in General Internal Medicine

Teaching / Audit

• Experience of & commitment to teaching undergraduates & postgraduates
• Experience of supervising Resident doctors
• Experience of & commitment to clinical audit
• Experience of Audit management
• Specific teaching qualification
• Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
• Attended a recognised teaching training course / accredited as educational supervisor

Qualifications

• MRCP or equivalent
• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
• MBBS or equivalent
• Postgraduate thesis - in any aspect of clinical medicine or education
• CCT in Acute Medicine
• CCT in General (Internal) Medicine
• Evidence of entry on GMC Specialist Register OR be within 6 months of attaining CCT at time of interview and entry on GMC Specialist Register by date of commencement OR evidence that the GMC is processing the Specialist Registration application (MUST be provided prior to interview)

Management experience

• Experience of audit and management
• Completed a management course for consultants.
• Leadership experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Queens Hospital Burton, Belvedere Road, Burton-On-Trent, DE13 0RB

Website: https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/