NHS Locum Consultant Acute Medicine | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Acute medicine at East Sussex healthcare Trust is an innovative service with a strong ethos of collaborative multidisciplinary team working. Our Acute Assessment Unit and Same day Emergency Care are co-located in close proximity to the Emergency Department. Considerable investment supports the progress and development of acute medicine, including 7 day working.

The successful applicant would primarily be working at Conquest Hospital across AAU and SDEC in collaboration with colleagues from the Emergency Department, Frailty and other medical specialties.

This post is a new post as part of our ambitions to grow our acute medical consultant workforce, over the next 18 months, with the aim of providing senior decision makers from 0800-2200, better meeting the needs of our patients and local population.

We would support candidates with a special interest, or indeed to develop one.

The existing Acute Medicine team are committed to delivering a high quality service and an enthusiastic individual is required to help take these plans forward. This appointment will help to drive forward the development of the SDEC service and ensure that high quality safe care facilitates early discharge, reduce patient length of stay and ensure the transfer of appropriate patients to the sub-specialities.

There will be a strong commitment to teaching Junior Staff the principles of acute medicine that will occur as the opportunity arises on a day-to-day basis with acute patients, as well as dedicated directorate teaching. There will be responsibility for general professional training of the junior medical members of the department and contributing to the training of nurses and other members of the multi-disciplinary team,

and participating in the activities of the Medical Education Centre including Clinical Audit and Quality improvement projects.

The post holder will be expected to undertake administrative duties associated with the care of patients and running his or her clinical department. The post holder will be expected to participate fully in the process of appraisal and revalidation including completion of mandatory training, attendance of induction meetings and attendance at Trust Clinical Governance sessions.

We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.

Please refer to the job description attached.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.

This advert closes on Thursday 12 Nov 2026