Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine: Sponsorship Available

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you considering your next opportunity? If so, we’d love to show you why should consider joining us here in North Cumbria. We’re investing into Acute Medicine services, and we can invest in you, too.

We support Locum Consultants to transition into substantive posts with us through our outstanding Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) pathway.At NCIC, we are proud of our track record, with a 100% success rate in supporting doctors from a wide range of specialties achieve their career goals.

We offer a highly supportive development environment, having successfully helped doctors from specialities including emergency medicine, anaesthetics, endocrinology, gastroenterology, histopathology, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and radiology.

Joining us means benefiting from structured guidance, proven success, and a genuine commitment to helping you progress to a substantive consultant position.

There is real scope to shape your role… around what you do best

If you have a special interest in frailty, virtual wards, hospital admission avoidance, front-door streaming or ambulatory care, we would actively welcome a conversation. We are flexible in how roles are built and happy to tailor job plans to align with your interests, experience and development goals. Whether you are passionate about clinical leadership, pathway development, education, or system working across primary and secondary care, there is space here for you to make a meaningful impact.

Main duties of the job

This is an opportunity to join a service with momentum… and ambition

You will be joining a team that is honest about the challenges of acute care, but equally committed to doing things better: for patients and for staff. Our vision is clear: the right patient, in the right place, at the right time, led by the right clinician. If you’re looking for a role where your expertise is valued, your ideas welcomed, and the service is genuinely evolving rather than standing still, we’d encourage you to get in touch for an informal discussion.

New leadership and investment at North Cumbria Integrated Care has created an opportunity for 5 new Acute Medical Consultants who will be integral to the redesign of our Acute Medicine services.

New funding will mean we can facilitate early senior decision making, expand Medical SDEC facilities and advise from the point of referral in our new single point of access Hub.

Working for NCIC, you will benefit from:

  • Joining an established, but expanding Acute Medicine Consultant team who are engaged, passionate and driven to deliver high quality care across North Cumbria
  • Excellent research, teaching and innovative opportunities from our partnerships with the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine and our regional providers in the Great North Healthcare Alliance.
  • A leadership development pathway for Consultants, right through to Executive Medical Director.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Full Registration with the General Medical Council.
  • Member of the Royal College of Physicians or equivalent
  • Proof of competency in emergency and elective index cases

Desirable

  • Special interest or certification in any medical specialty.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • High level of clinical experience and competence in Acute Medicine
  • Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, managers and other staff
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

  • A commitment to, and experience of teaching
  • An interest in developing links with Primary Care
  • Completed Higher Specialist Training (CCT) in General (Internal) Medicine, Acute Internal Medicine or evidence of equivalent competency.

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.

Desirable

  • Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates
  • Teaching of non-medical health professionals.
  • Educational Qualification

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

Essential

  • Experience of, and commitment to, medical audit.
  • Experience of research and Clinical Governance

Desirable

  • Publications in referred journals
  • Ability to supervise postgraduate research

Management & Administrative

Essential

  • Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the service.
  • Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently

Desirable

  • Experience of audit management

Communication skills and abilities

Essential

  • Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
  • Approachable and effective Multi disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Team loyalty
  • Positive approach to lessons learned
  • Confident approach without being arrogant

Desirable

  • IT Skills
  • Presentation skills

Continued Professional / Personal Development

Essential

  • Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning.
  • Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance.
  • Participation in appropriate peer review processes.

Desirable

  • Continued Professional / Personal Development

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team.
  • Ability to travel to fulfil the requirements of the post

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 the 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).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 5 October 2026

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