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Understand the post
Work from the job pack and the service you would join.
NHS Recruitment
Your career. Your service. Your consultant interview.
Rehearse for your consultant post with spoken panel questions shaped by your career, specialty and job pack. Defend your leadership, governance and service plans.
Full paid Interview programmes are coming soon. Try one free practice per account across interview routes, with follow-ups and saved feedback on typed or dictated answers.
Free consultant preparation · Available now
Start with the post. Build your preparation around it.
Use the guides without signing in. Pick the task you need today, from reading the job pack to rehearsing a presentation.
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Choose your evidence
Show what you contributed, what changed and what you learnt.
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Prepare for the panel
Practise your explanation and the questions that may follow.
Prepare for the questions that define consultant appointments
Focused preparation across the interview domains that matter most for NHS Consultant.
Personal ownership
Make clear what you personally led, decided or changed and where responsibility sat.
Leadership & management
Demonstrate influence, difficult decisions, team leadership and delivery rather than leadership vocabulary.
Service development
Show how you identify a need, build support, implement change and measure whether it worked.
Governance
Handle safety, quality, risk and professional responsibility at consultant level.
Resources & stakeholders
Explain what implementation needs in people, time, finance, data and stakeholder support.
Job & organisation fit
Connect your career direction to the service the organisation actually needs.
Consultant-level depth
Post-specific
Career-aware
From preparation to practice · Coming at launch
Prepare with a programme. Rehearse with an interviewer.
Build preparation around your actual job description, person specification and confirmed career evidence. Start with the question or example that needs the most work.
Question bank
Explore route-specific questions. Type or dictate an answer, get structured AI feedback and make a focused improvement.
Example bank
Organise your real leadership, teamwork, QI and governance experiences. Make your contribution clear and choose evidence that fits the question.
Live voice practice
Rehearse consultant-level questions aloud, with coaching and adaptive follow-up based on the role and the evidence you provide.
Built around your role Use your actual job pack, career evidence and presentation brief where provided.
Consultant access 90 days of preparation, including AI feedback on typed or dictated answers and 120 voice minutes.
Spoken practice · Coming at launch
The interviewer speaks. You answer out loud. It responds to what you say.
Hear the question, explain your thinking and handle the next challenge. Follow-up draws on your answer and the evidence you provide.
- Hear the question
The AI interviewer asks the question aloud, so practice feels like a conversation rather than a text chat.
- Answer out loud
Use your microphone and answer naturally. Your spoken response becomes part of the interview transcript.
- Get follow-up based on your answer
The interviewer listens to the content of your answer and can probe what you said, your evidence and the gaps you leave.
- Coach it, then test it
Coach mode gives feedback and lets you retry. Interview mode removes the hints and keeps feedback until the mock is complete.
Built around your evidence
Personalisation should change the questions, not just your name.
The preparation context is deliberately specific to this interview route. The aim is to help you choose, explain and defend your own evidence rather than memorise someone else's answer.
Your consultant-level career profile and selected specialty
The actual job description and person specification
Service, organisation and pre-interview research
Your strongest leadership, governance and development examples
Your employer’s presentation brief, where one is supplied
Your interview specification
The post and organisation set the agenda.
Consultant interviews vary by specialty and employer. The preparation should therefore be driven by the actual job, your career evidence and the local service context.
Panel formats vary. Your job pack and confirmed presentation brief take priority over general specialty context.
Use the person specification to identify the evidence the panel needs to hear.
Prepare for deeper probing of leadership, governance, service development and implementation.
Expect questions about how your plans fit the organisation, team and available resources.
Rehearse a presentation when your employer requests one, using its brief and time limit.
Free recruitment guide
Preparing the application as well as the interview?
Check the requirements, gather your evidence and prepare your next answer.
Two ways to practise
Learn with support. Then remove it.
Coach mode
Pressure-test consultant-level claims.
Coach Mode challenges ownership, realism and implementation detail, then lets you rebuild the answer while the evidence is fresh.
- Probe what you personally did
- Test stakeholder and resource realism
- Strengthen evidence of impact
- Compare your own examples when another one is stronger
Interview mode
Run the panel without coaching.
Interview Mode uses the same career and job context but behaves like a panel rather than an answer tutor.
- Adaptive consultant-level follow-up
- No hints or rescue during the mock
- Job-specific challenge
- Structured feedback after completion
NHS Consultant · Launching soon
Turn your career evidence into consultant-level answers.
Get to know the format and work through original preparation questions while spoken practice prepares to launch.