Locum Consultant in General Medicine

NHS; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Stoke-on-Trent seeks a Locum Consultant in General Medicine. You will provide consultant cover for escalation wards, manage junior doctors, and ensure high-quality patient care. Ideal candidates will have full GMC registration, MRCP (UK), and extensive clinical experience. This role requires teamwork and a commitment to continuous education. Join us in delivering top-notch healthcare.

Benefits

Opportunity for professional development

Supportive working environment

Contribution to community healthcare

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years medical work since obtaining primary qualification.
• 6 years in medical specialty in Specialty Doctor or closed SAS grades.
• Enthusiasm for medical education.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant cover for escalation and outlying medical patients.
• Supervise junior doctors and ensure high-quality care.
• Engage in clinical meetings and maintain communication with GPs.

Skills

Clinical opinion in medical problems

Teamwork and collaboration

Clinical governance engagement

Education

Full GMC registration

MRCP (UK) or equivalent

Entry on GMC Specialist Register

Job description

Locum Consultant in General Medicine

The closing date is 05 December 2025

We are pleased to offer this opportunity to join the Medical Division at the University Hospital of North Midlands (UHNM).

The successful applicant/s will join the General Medicine Directorate which sits in the Medicine Business Unit in the Unplanned Care Group. The Medicine Business Unit incorporates Diabetes/Endocrinology, General Medicine, Nephrology, Older Adults, Respiratory, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases on both the Royal Stoke and County Hospital sites. The consultant team will be supported by junior grade staff. Applicants will be providing Consultant leadership and support on the winter escalation ward at UHNM (Royal Stoke and County Hospital), to ensure appropriate clinical care and treatment of patients is provided over the winter period.

Main duties of the job

This post provides consultant cover for medicine escalation and outlying medical patients - one post at Royal Stoke and one post at County Hospital. You will be supported by the junior doctor team for providing high quality care and facilitate the discharge process. On occasions input will be required for other medical areas.

Diagnosis and treatment of medical patients, providing senior input on daily ward round on escalation ward, with junior medical staff supporting. Continuous clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge allowing for all proper delegation to and training of your staff. Working with consultant colleagues in other medical and surgical specialities and developing relationships with other health-related agencies.

Work pattern Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00 hours.

You will take responsibility for the work, supervision and management of the junior doctor/s for winter support. If appropriate you will be named in the contracts of doctors in the training grades as the person responsible for overseeing their training and as the initial source of advice to such doctors on their careers.

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co‑created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Job responsibilities

• Provision of cover, including attendance at daily board rounds on medicine escalation ward and medical patients outlying in other areas.
• Take ongoing responsibility for patients under his/her care.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with colleagues in other specialities and participate in clinical meetings and other postgraduate activities.
• Have responsibility for the professional supervision and development of trainee/locum doctors within escalation / medical outliers.
• Develop and maintain good communications with General Practitioners and appropriate external agencies.
• Ensure own practice is up-to-date. This will involve taking responsibility for own Clinical Professional Development.
• Share responsibility for data protection arising out of the use of computers.
• Comply with all relevant Trust Policies and Procedures.
• Take responsibility for improving and complying with infection control practices.
• Ensure that all Trust-wide standards are maintained to improve the quality of total care to all who come in to contact with services provided by UHNM NHS Trust.

Person Specification

Qualfications

• o Full GMC registration
• MRCP (UK) or an equivalent Qualification
• An enthusiasm, as well as interest, to be involved in medical education
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via: CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview), or CESR

Clinical Experience & Training

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in General Medicine
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion in a range of problems within the specialty
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients.
• A minimum of 12 years medical work (either continuous or aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification, of which a minimum of 6 years should have been in a medical specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades

Professional & Multidisciplinary Team Working

• Ability to work effectively with colleagues and within a team
• Attendance at MDT meetings
• Track record of engaging in clinical governance - reporting errors, learning from errors
• Further skills in information technology

Academic Achievements, Research, Publications

• Ability to apply research outcomes
• Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making.
• Ability to understand and apply re-search methodology
• Evidence of training in research methodology
• To have published in peer reviewed journals
• Research experience

Management and Administrative Experience:

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Documented previous contribution to substantial departmental development
• Ability to plan strategically and to exercise sound judgments when faced with conflicting pressures.
• Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives.
• Good leadership skills
• Use of Information and Technology
• Evidence of ability to teach and experience of teaching
• Higher teaching qualification

Personal Attributes

• Enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure.
• An enquiring and critical approach to work
• Caring attitude to patients.
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other staff and agencies.
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development.

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.