Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine

The closing date is 18 March 2026

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.

There are two opportunities available:

• 1 x 12 months fixed term to cover a vacancy 8PAs
• 1 x fixed term May 2026 - February 2027 to cover Sabbatical Leave 10PAs

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.

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

The Trust is one of a small number of hospitals nationally confirmed to be in an early phase of the national New Hospital Build Programme. This will result in the acute hospital on the Leighton site being completely rebuilt and operational by 2031, providing fantastic opportunities for development and transformation of elective and acute surgical services at MCHFT.

Job responsibilities

9 PAs (DCC): which includes 1.25 PAs to cover scheduled on-call work (identified as on-call on job plan timetable).

1 core SPA PA per week to support appraisal and revalidation.

Further details about the role can be found within the attached JD.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration
• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCP or equivalent
• Additional higher degrees relevant to this post
• Other postgraduate qualification e.g. MD, PhD
• Qualified educational supervisor

Experince

• Extensive experience in Acute / General Internal Medicine
• Other specialties will be considered but especially desirable would be Respiratory Medicine, Care of the Elderly/Frailty, Diabetes or Rheumatology

Ability

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

Audit and Research

• Relevant experience in clinical audit
• Relevant experience in research and evidence of publications
• Ability to develop evidence based practice
• Research leading to MD or PhD

Teachhing and Education

• 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
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development and lifelong learning
• Commitment to teaching
• Membership of Society of Acute Medicine
• Recognised teaching skills course Special interest in role development and staff training
• Evidence to allow accreditation as a Consultant Educational Supervisor for trainee doctors with the GMC
• Membership of relevant medical associations/learned societies

Other

• Ability to communicate effectively with patients and staff at all levels of the organisation
• Meets professional health requirements (in line with GMC standards in Good Medical Practice)

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.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust