Locum Consultant Acute Medicine

Locum Consultant Acute Medicine

The closing date is 12 March 2026

This is a full‑time post for a Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine. Sub‑specialist skills and interests and areas for development such as Clinical Leadership, Medical Education and Research will be encouraged. You will work together with other members of the acute medicine team and colleagues at Worcestershire Royal Hospital as part of an establishment of 10.5 WTE Consultant Acute Physicians to provide high quality, compassionate and holistic treatment for patients referred or self‑presented to our Trust in the following areas:
The Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), the Acute Medical Unit (AMU), the Emergency department and the Medical Short Stay Unit. Participation in GIM on call is optional but weekend cover (currently 1:7) is a requirement. 2 DCCs will be changed to specialist clinic activity if agreed with the successful candidate.

• Provide a clinical service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and General Practitioners.
• Attend multi‑disciplinary meetings and work within multi‑disciplinary teams to deliver high quality clinical care.
• Work across three sites and extend services to GP surgeries and health centres where required.
• Support the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely and appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital.
• Provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.
• Attend cross‑county and cross‑site meetings and collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service.
• Participate in the on‑call rota to ensure that emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, shared equally with Consultant colleagues.
• Attend the hospital site for patient reviews when clinically necessary and be prepared to attend on‑call duty whenever requested by the medical and nursing team.
• When undertaking weekend on‑call duties, attend the hospital to review patients.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital‑based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised for providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex‑positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

• Ability to work in a team.
• Enquiring, critical approach to work.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education.
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels.

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines including undergraduates and postgraduates.

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
• Awareness of current specialty‑specific developments and initiatives.
• Publications in relevant peer‑reviewed journals in the last 5 years.
• Evidence of having undertaken original research.

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in General (Internal) Medicine or Acute Medicine.
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both…