Consultant in Palliative Medicine
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Consultant in Palliative MedicineThe closing date is 30 September 2025
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join the Newcastle Hospitals Palliative Care Service. This is a trust wide service working as 4 teams across RVI, FRH, NCCC and Newcastle Community, including into Care Homes. The service includes medical, nursing and psychology specialists. The successful candidate will primarily be based within one of the palliative care teams for clinical and strategic work; however, they are expected to cover any of the hospital or community sites as needed.
This post commences from April 1st 2026 and attracts 8.5 PAs for in hours NUTH work.
Main duties of the jobThe post holder will join a team of Palliative Medicine Consultants working within the NUTH Palliative Care Service. This is a liaison service, consisting of doctors, a senior nurse, nurse specialists, health care assistants, psychologists and admin staff, which supports the delivery of high quality palliative and end of life care to patients within Newcastle Hospitals and those living in Newcastle community.
The post holder will work with a variety of clinicians in caring for adult palliative patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses within the Newcastle hospitals and in Newcastle community. Working alongside other specialists working within Newcastle hospitals and General Practice, the service supports proactive planning as well as reactive treatment and care, aiming to improve the quality of life and death for patients and their carers across Newcastle. The post holder will also be involved in teaching, training, research, audit, and strategic work within the Trust and with partner organisations.
The successful applicant will be involved in the development of a supportive care model and service, supporting the holistic care of patients receiving care at the Cancer Centre.
The post holder will also contribute to the out of hours on call service which is non-resident and provides advice and guidance to prescribers to all hospital sites and across Newcastle community.
About usAs a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
- Freeman Hospital
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
- Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers Newcastle Hospitals NHS Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job responsibilitiesClinical:
Provide direct clinical care to patients and their families
Support the palliative care nurse specialists to deliver care to patients and families through MDT, advice and joint visiting
Provide advice and support to referrers to the service
Person Specification Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC Registration.
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
- Higher medical qualification: MRCP, FRCA, MRCGP
- Higher Degree.
- Special skills training in the specialty.
- Evidence of experience in palliative care in hospital, community and hospice settings.
- Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality, and to liaise with other specialists to support the clinical care of patients referred to the service.
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients within the hospice when providing on-call cover.
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
- Evidence of leadership / project management.
- Evidence of having implemented change.
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
- Experience of formal and informal teaching and training of undergraduate and postgraduate doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
- Evidence of significant research commitment and experience.
- Publications/presentations in the last five years.
- Research/critical review of literature.
- Evidence of participation in audit.
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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