Consultant In palliative Care Medicine

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Cottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Cottingham is seeking a Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine to join a dedicated team. This role offers the chance to shape patient-centered care in hospital and community settings. Ideal candidates are compassionate clinicians with strong leadership and communication skills, and a commitment to high-quality palliative care. The position includes significant responsibilities in managing complex patient needs and enhancing service delivery.

Qualifications

• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on a range of problems, both elective and emergency within specialty.
• Ability to take full & independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• Experience of working in primary care.

Responsibilities

• Delivering high-quality, person-centred specialist palliative care in the community and/or hospital settings.
• Strengthening partnerships across Hull and East Riding, helping to shape truly integrated care for those with complex needs.

Skills

Clinical excellence

Emotional intelligence

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Education

Postgraduate qualification in Education

GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months)

Full Registration with the GMC

Job description

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Consultant In palliative Care Medicine

The closing date is 11 November 2025

If you believe that how we care is just as important as what we do, this role offers a deeply meaningful opportunity to make a lasting difference.

Following new funding, we are expanding our team to further strengthen the support and continuity of care we provide to patients and their families. We're now inviting a dedicated Consultant to join our Specialist Palliative Care Team, serving across Hull Royal Infirmary, Castle Hill Hospital, and the wider community.

Our department is built on compassion, respect, and teamwork - values reflected in our remarkably low staff turnover, with colleagues who have individually served for over 14 and 17 years. This continuity speaks to the strong sense of belonging and purpose our team shares.

You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary service comprising Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialists (Bands 6-7), and a dedicated administrator, supported by colleagues in chaplaincy, social work, psychology, pharmacy, pain management, and therapies. In 2024 alone, the service received 2,376 referrals, highlighting both the scale and trust placed in our team.

Main duties of the job

We understand that palliative care is as individual as the people who provide it. That’s why we offer flexibility to shape your role around your interests and expertise. You may wish to:

• Broaden your experience through rotation across hospital, community and hospice settings, or
• Deepen your expertise by focusing on a particular area of care - whether that’s working in acute, community, or specialist services such as homelessness, prisons, or specific disease pathways.

Whatever your path, you’ll be supported within a compassionate, values‑led environment that honours both patients and staff, while playing a vital role in:

• Delivering high-quality, person-centred specialist palliative care in the community and/or hospital settings.
• Strengthening partnerships across Hull and East Riding, helping to shape truly integrated care for those with complex needs.

About You

We are looking for a compassionate, collaborative clinician who brings clinical excellence and emotional intelligence in equal measure. If you take pride in the privilege of supporting patients and families through some of life’s most significant and challenging moments, and value being part of a team that does the same, then this role offers you the opportunity to contribute to a service defined by empathy, expertise, and integrity – and to help shape the future of palliative and end‑of‑life care within a deeply committed team.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more information on this advertised role, please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in postgraduate training.

Professional Registration

• GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months).
• Full Registration with the GMC.

Clinical Experience

• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on a range of problems, both elective and emergency within specialty.
• Ability to take full & independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• Oncology experience in addition to that required to fulfil specialist training.
• Experience with end stage organ failure in addition to that required to fulfil specialist training.
• Experience of working in primary care.

Management and Administration Experience

• Demonstrable leadership & managerial skills.
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist services.
• Ability to organise and manage patient priorities.
• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate.
• Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery.
• Experience of audit management.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service.
• Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate.
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels.
• Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines.

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.