Specialty Doctor in Palliative Medicine
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Specialty Doctor in Palliative MedicineThe closing date is 05 October 2025
The opportunity has arisen for an experienced Specialty Doctor to join the community Specialist Palliative Care teams in Rugby and South Warwickshire. The successful applicant will join an established team of consultants and clinical nurse specialists in 2 different areas across Warwickshire. This is a new post to increase the medical support in two of the SWFT community teams. It is anticipated that the Palliative Care teams across SWFT will continue to grow over the next few years, creating opportunities for further development into services for patients with non-malignant diagnoses. Both Rugby and South Warwickshire have a weekly MDT. The South Warwickshire MDT is integrated with the Warwick Hospital Palliative Care Team and is attended by the three local hospices. The MDTs are supported by the senior Palliative Care secretaries. Both teams are supported by Palliative Care secretaries.
Main duties of the jobThe successful candidate would be expected to work across the community specialist palliative care teams in Rugby and South Warwickshire. It is expected that this would be 2 days in Rugby and 3 days in South Warwickshire with some flexibility needed at times of annual leave.
About usCome and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
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Job responsibilitiesThe successful candidate would be expected to work across the community specialist palliative care teams in Rugby and South Warwickshire. It is expected that this would be 2 days in Rugby and 3 days in South Warwickshire with some flexibility needed at times of annual leave.The post holder will be expected to undertake a minimum of 50 hours CPD per year, and time is given in SPA time for this.
Person Specification- 4 years full time post-graduate training (or equivalent) and at least 2 of those years working within Palliative Medicine
- Ability to commute to review patients within South Warwickshire or Rugby community depending on patient need
- Ability to commute to review patients within South Warwickshire or Rugby community depending on patient need
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.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust