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Salary for this role£113,565 – £150,569 a year
Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year
Pay basisNational pay scales (NHS bands)
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Role description
Job summary
This is a replacement, permanent 8PA post which presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high quality, patient centered service in a supportive multidisciplinary team.
The post will cover both acute hospital inpatient work and work within community settings, ensuring patients can be seen and supported where ever they are.
The role involves delivering expert clinical care, providing specialist advice to healthcare professionals, participating in the on-call rota, and supporting the development of innovative services that enable patients to receive care closer to home.
The successful candidate will join a team of consultants in Palliative medicine supported by nurse specialists in both acute and community settings. There are opportunities to develop sub specialty interest where this contributes to and complements the department and Trusts' service needs. There are undergraduate & postgraduate education and research opportunities available.
Main duties of the job
To share with colleagues' responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Palliative Medicine department.
To provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to hospital inpatients in West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
To provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to patients in the community, in conjunction with colleagues at St Nicholas Hospice Care
To provide Palliative Medicine consultant input within the community through joint working with other specialties and other providers
To develop and deliver palliative care education to health care professionals at all levels
To participate in the consultant telephone 2nd on call rota across Suffolk and Great Yarmouth & Waveney
To contribute to the planning and further development of palliative care services in the area and across the ICB
To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit
To fulfill obligations relating to continuing medical education, professional development, appraisal and revalidation and to keep up to date with new developments in the field of palliative medicine.
Please see Job Description for full vacancy details
About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone's voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Details
Date posted
02 November 2026
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
£113,565 to £150,569 a year
Pro Rata Per Annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
179-8226648-MSC
Job locations
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
West SUffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Bury St. Edmunds
IP33 2QZ
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within the Medicine directorate, with managerial responsibility to the Clinical Director. This post is a replacement.
There are currently four Consultants in Palliative Medicine (3.4 WTE) working within West Suffolk, supporting patients in the hospital, hospice and community.
The hospital palliative care team support over 1200 patients a year. The team is currently staffed by 5.7 WTE CNSs, with a Band 8a Team Lead/Practice Development Nurse.
The hospital team has close links with the chaplaincy team, the Acute Oncology Team, the discharge planning team and other specialities such as Oncology, Haematology, Frailty, Cardiology and Renal.
The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. The Trust will give you reasonable notice, where possible, of temporary changes to your days or hours of work and will consult with you and/or your staff representatives about substantial permanent changes, but ultimately, these are changes which may be required of you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Entry on the GMC specialist register in Palliative Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Training) at the time of interview and hold a licence to practice.
Full GMC registration with a licence to practise
MBBS or equivalent
MRCP (UK) or an equivalent postgraduate qualification
Desirable
MD or PhD
Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Medicine or a related subject
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
Completion of approved JRCPTB curriculum in Palliative medicine or evidence of equivalent knowledge,
Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of palliative medicine problems.
Awareness of current speciality specific clinical evidence, developments and guidelines
Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
Completion of advanced communication skills training
All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: oPLAB 1 oPLAB 2 However, if applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.
Experience
Essential
Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Palliative medicine
Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Experience of managing patients with palliative care needs in inpatient, outpatient and community settings
Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Palliative Medicine issues
Teaching and Training
Essential
Experience of supervising resident doctors and advanced practitioners
Experience of workplace- based assessment
Experience in delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Desirable
Postgraduate teaching qualification
Experience of organising and delivering medical or multiprofessional teaching programmes
Management and Audit Training
Essential
Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g.in-patient priorities
Ability to contribute to strategic developments in service delivery
Experience of audit and quality improvement frameworks
Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
Understanding of current NHS environment, particularly in relation to palliative and end of life care
Desirable
Experience of Leadership roles
Research and Publications
Essential
Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
Publications in peer reviewed journals
Desirable
Ability to supervise research projects
Experience of taking part in a research project
Personal Skills and Qualities
Essential
Effective communication skills
Commitment to working well within a multi-professional clinical team
Ability to deal effectively with pressure
Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
Positive approach to job planning and appraisal process
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.