Rehabilitation Consultant

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS; Loughborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the East Midlands invites applications for a Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine (8 PAs) to work across NUH's rehabilitation services and the national rehabilitation centre in Loughborough.

The post offers opportunities to lead multi-disciplinary teams, contribute to education, audit and research, and shape a national centre of clinical excellence as the NRC opens in 2026.

Qualifications

• Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.
• Able to teach and support junior staff effectively.
• Higher teaching degree or qualification or training (Desirable).
• Full GMC registration with Licence to Practise.
• MBBS.
• Full MRCP.

Responsibilities

• Extensive experience in Rehabilitation Medicine.
• Comprehensive knowledge of current issues in general internal medicine.
• Proven leadership skills, able to lead a team effectively.
• Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Audit

Teaching

Education

MBBS

MRCP

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

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.

Person specification

Teaching, Audit & Research

Essential criteria

• Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.
• Able to teach and support junior staff effectively

Desirable criteria

• Original Research Publications
• Higher teaching degree or qualification or training

Professional registration

Essential criteria

• Full GMC registration with Licence to Practise

Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MBBS
• Full MRCP

Desirable criteria

• Higher professional degree

Clinical Skills/Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience in Rehabilitation Medicine.
• Comprehensive knowledge of current issues in general internal medicine.

Desirable criteria

• Specific training in communication skills
• Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors

Management Skills

Essential criteria

• Proven leadership skills, able to lead a team effectively.
• Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery

Desirable criteria

• Experience of change management
• Higher management degree or qualification or training

Please note that this post does not attract relocation expenses.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.