Ace Your NHS Consultant Interview
Ace Your NHS Consultant Interview
Podcast Description
Welcome to Ace Your NHS Consultant Interview - the podcast for doctors who want to take the stress and guesswork out of their NHS consultant interview prep.
We know how overwhelming it can feel to prep for your consultant interviews when you’re already stretched thin.
Each episode, we’ll break down what actually works - no fluff, no endless reading, just practical steps you can fit into a hectic week. You’ll hear honest advice, real stories, and the frameworks we use with our own students inside the Academy to help you show up confident, prepped, and ready to secure the job you want.
If you’re a final year trainee or locum consultant and you want to prepare, not panic, you’re in the right place.
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The podcast focuses on practical interview preparation techniques, including episode topics such as preparing for CQC reports, crafting relatable personal anecdotes for common interview questions, structuring responses to audit questions, and communicating effectively with interview panel members, all aimed at helping listeners navigate the stressful interview landscape.
Welcome to Ace Your NHS Consultant Interview – the podcast for doctors who want to take the stress and guesswork out of their NHS consultant interview prep.
We know how overwhelming it can feel to prep for your consultant interviews when you’re already stretched thin.
Each episode, we’ll break down what actually works – no fluff, no endless reading, just practical steps you can fit into a hectic week. You’ll hear honest advice, real stories, and the frameworks we use with our own students inside the Academy to help you show up confident, prepped, and ready to secure the job you want.
If you’re a final year trainee or locum consultant and you want to prepare, not panic, you’re in the right place.
In this episode of the Ace Your Consultant Interview podcast, Tessa and Becky tackle three areas that commonly derail otherwise strong candidates: GMC documents, weakness questions, and CQC reports.
Next, they pull apart a real “biggest weakness” example – clinics always running over time – and show how to reshape a risky answer into a specific, contained story with clear impact and practical strategies that demonstrate insight rather than poor time management. They also unpack an unusual question recently asked at consultant interview about “types of consultations you find difficult”, using it to show how to demonstrate vulnerability, learning, and true consultant-level, system-focused thinking when you are facing a wildcard question.
They finish with a concrete tip on how to approach CQC reports: what to read, what to ignore, how to spot the issues that are likely to appear in your panel’s questions, and how to weave the report into your answers so it is obvious you have done your homework without sounding rehearsed.
If you feel overwhelmed by all the things you “should” be reading before interview, this episode will help you focus on the few documents and examples that actually move the needle.
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