Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Services
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (Willing to discuss flexibility & Job Plan if successful in application.)
- Job ref
- 262-A-25-7426319
- Employer
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle
- Town
- Carlisle
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) are looking to recruit a forward-thinking and motivated individual to join our team of Acute Medicine Consultants. This is a post for a Locum Consultant with specialist registration. The role will be to provide care across both our hospitals; the West Cumberland Hospital (WCH) in Whitehaven and the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, though will primarily be job planned to work and be based at Carlisle.
Main duties of the job
This post offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of developing new and innovative approaches and services for the residents of North Cumbria, a uniquely beautiful and challenging area.
Full details including an example job plan can be found in the attached Job Description.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time':
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
Acute Medicine run 2 Acute Medical Units with an unselected medical take at both sites. Our team deliver Same Day Emergency Care services for Acute Medicine on both sites, too, and are involved in a wide range of transformational improvement work in this particular area.
There has been no better time than now to join us in Acute Medicine as we embark on new and innovative ways of delivering our services and offer a consistently high level of quality in all we do.
The Trust has won national awards for our composite workforce model at West Cumberland Hospital and there will be opportunities to be involved in the training and educational supervision of Deanery trainees at all levels should you be successful, helping to contribute to the next generation of medical professionals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Relocation assistance of up to £8,000 may be available for successful applicants moving to the region.
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
- If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Special interest or certification in any medical specialty.
- Entry on the GMC specialist register via relevant CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview), relevant CESR or European Community Rights
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates
- Teaching of non-medical health professionals.
- Educational Qualification
Research, Audit and Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
- Experience of, and commitment to, medical audit.
- Experience of research and Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
- Publications in referred journals
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Daniel Zehnder
- Job title
- Clinical Director - Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07544981189
- Additional information
Discussions are encouraged ahead of application
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