Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£113,565 to £150,569 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Plymouth, PL6 8DH
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	21 Sept 2026
Closing date:	21 Oct 2026

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Summary

There are currently 13 Acute Medicine Consultants with a major commitment to acute medicine and further 4 Physicians with part-time commitment to acute medicine. The Medical Take on-call rota comprises General Medicine consultants from various medical specialties. Successful applicants for these posts will commit to the full take rota and acute medicine weekend working. The post holder will also be contributing to medical take on call (weekends only) but will not be required to work more than 1:7 weekends. Acute physicians roles: The Acute Physician of the day (APOD) Supervises the medical take from 0800-1730 and is clinician in charge of the AMU shop floor during this period. The APOD will see approximately 1/3 of the AMU patients between 0800 and 1300 hours. The afternoon session is given to further review of sick patients identified on the post take ward round and timely review of new admissions. The APOD runs the 0800 and 1700 twice daily safety briefs and the daily 1100 board round. Take assist Reviews new medical admissions between 0800-1300 hours. This includes patients for post take ward round and those who have been on the unit for more than 24 hours. Medical SDEC consultant: The Medical SDEC is covered from 0800-2000 from Mondays to Fridays and from 0800-1730 from Saturday to Sunday. Weekend duties: Acute Medicine Consultants will be expected to work no more than one in seven weekends, in line with other medical specialties. This may comprise of a long take day (0800-2000hrs) and a shorter day on SDEC (0900-1700) or MRU depending upon the rota,

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