Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant in the Acute Medicine Department at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful motivated and enthusiastic candidate to join the team based at Leighton Hospital in Crewe. This is a 12 month fixed term post.

The successful candidate will be highly motivated with a passion to improve the quality of patient care. They will have strong communication skills and be an excellent ‘Team Player’. They will value training and education.

The successful applicants must have full registration with the GMC and continue to hold a License to Practice.

Main duties of the job

The vision of the Acute Medical Unit is to consistently provide a caring, professional, high quality, efficient clinical service for patients who present with an acute medical condition to secondary care from the community, Emergency Department or following a clinic attendance.

Our values, alongside professional codes of conduct, will empower staff to deliver a high quality service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GMC Registration
  • MBBS or equivalent
  • MRCP

Desirable

  • Additional higher degrees relevant to this post
  • Qualified educational supervisor

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience in Acute / General Internal Medicine

Desirable

  • Other specialties will be considered but especially desirable would be Respiratory Medicine, Care of the Elderly/Frailty, Diabetes or Rheumatology

Ability

Essential

  • Recognised ability to work within, and provide leadership to, the multidisciplinary team
  • Effective communicator
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to clinical risk management and implementation of clinical governance
  • Effective team leader

Teaching and Education

Essential

  • Evidence to allow accreditation as a Consultant Clinical Supervisor for trainee doctors with the GMC
  • Experience and interest in teaching both junior medical and non-medical staff
  • Membership of Society of Acute Medicine
  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development and lifelong learning

Desirable

  • Evidence to allow accreditation as a Consultant Educational Supervisor for trainee doctors with the GMC
  • Recognised teaching skills course Special interest in role development and staff training

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: 18 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.