Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine | Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer: Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Crewe, CW1 4QJ
Contract Type: Contract
Hours: Not specified
Disability Confident: No
Closing Date: 03/04/2026 (advert closes on Wednesday 18 Mar 2026)
About this job
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.
* 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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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