Locum Consultant Physician in General Internal Medicine | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant Physician in General Internal Medicine to join the GIM Directorate at New Cross Hospital. You will provide consultant-delivered inpatient care for the acute medical take and its downstream GIM bed base.

The post includes 10.0 programmed activities (8.5 direct clinical care and 1.5 SPA) and an on-call rota frequency of 1 in 8 with a 5% availability supplement of the full-time basic salary. The Trust welcomes flexible working requests.

Qualifications

• Experience as a consultant physician in General Internal Medicine is preferred.
• Ability to work in inpatient settings and on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Hold a base GIM ward and deliver daily consultant-led rounds.
• Contribute to the acute medical take via the GIM on-call rota.
• Manage a 10.0 programmed activities job plan (8.5 direct clinical care and 1.5 SPA).
• Willingness to work less than full time or participate in a job-share if requested.

Job description

Locum Consultant Physician in General Internal Medicine | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a Locum Consultant Physician in General Internal Medicine to join the Trust’s General Internal Medicine (GIM) Directorate at New Cross Hospital. This is a locum consultant post created to strengthen consultant-delivered inpatient care for the acute medical take and its downstream GIM bed base.

The post is a dedicated General Internal Medicine appointment. The successful candidate will hold a base GIM ward, deliver daily consultant-led board rounds and ward rounds, and contribute to the acute medical take through the consultant GIM on-call rota. The post carries no subspecialty outpatient commitment: the design deliberately separates generalist inpatient care from specialty activity so that GIM inpatients receive continuous, named consultant care that is not interrupted by competing specialty sessions.

The job plan comprises 10.0 programmed activities: 8.5 PAs of direct clinical care and 1.5 PAs of supporting professional activities. The 1.5 SPA allocation is required for continuing professional development, appraisal, audit and revalidation.

The appointee will join a consultant GIM on-call rota at an expected frequency of 1 in 8, Category A, attracting an availability supplement of 5% of full-time basic salary.

To provide consultant-delivered care to general internal medicine inpatients on an allocated base ward at New Cross Hospital, acting as the named responsible consultant for those patients.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a Locum Consultant Physician in General Internal Medicine to join the Trust’s General Internal Medicine (GIM) Directorate at New Cross Hospital. This is a locum consultant post created to strengthen consultant-delivered inpatient care for the acute medical take and its downstream GIM bed base.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to work less than full time or as part of a job share. The Trust will construct a proportionate job plan on the same principles, retaining the full 1.5 core SPA allocation and a minimum of 2.0 SPAs for any post of 6 PAs or more, in line with RCP guidance.

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This advert closes on Friday 23 Oct 2026