Consultant in Palliative Medicine

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working

Career stability

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Consultant in Palliative Medicine to deliver high-quality care across the acute trust and community settings in Lincolnshire. The post combines clinical leadership with teaching responsibilities and strategic service development.

The role requires the ability to inspire a multi-disciplinary team, drive improvement projects, and collaborate with St Barnabas Hospice and other partners.

Qualifications

• On GMC Specialist Register for Palliative Medicine or within 6 months of CCT or CESR.
• Possession of MRCP/MRCGP or other higher postgraduate qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for a specialist palliative care service across acute trust and community settings.
• Lead a multi-professional team, including education and CPD activities.
• Oversee clinical care reviews, quality improvement, and strategic delivery of palliative care.
• Support cross-organisational SPC collaboration and service development.
• Teach medical students, FY and ST trainees, and other healthcare professionals.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Teaching

Strategic planning

Multi-professional collaboration

Education

GMC Specialist Register for Palliative Medicine or within 6 months of CCT/CESR

MRCP/MRCGP or equivalent higher qualifications

Job description

Main area Palliative Medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (On Call commitment 1:8) Job ref 357-CLN-571-26

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Trustwide Town Lincoln Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 14/10/2026

Consultant in Palliative Medicine

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

· Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.

· Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.

· Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

We require an expert clinician to support a Specialist Palliative Medicine consultant position. The postholder will have the ability to inspire and support a developing hospital Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) service and a community SPC Hospice team. With the help and direction of the executive and clinical leaders the successful applicant will ensure that we continue to provide high quality care to patients and their families.

This is a substantive post (10 programmed activities) which is based at ULTH. The post holder will be employed by United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and line managed via St Barnabas Hospice. It is essential that the postholder has private residence within thirty minutes travelling time of St Barnabas hospice IPU due to on call commitments.

The all-embracing nature of specialist palliative care as a countywide service results in a complex and lengthy explanation of the interrelated services and providers that address the needs of the patients and commissioners.

Main duties of the job

It is expected that the consultant appointed to this post will have a major role in the clinical leadership and delivery of quality patient care for the acute trust in Lincolnshire. This post is primarily supporting the acute trust with direct clinical care reviews, clinical leadership, quality improvement, education and multidisciplinary team support. SBH community services are delivered geographically, and this post also supports the Lincoln and surrounding areas community hospice team. Supervision and support will come from the Medical Director at St Barnabas Hospice (SBH).

A focus on “front door” or proactive palliative care in the acute trust using a quality improvement approach would support both the system and organisational objectives.

SBH delivers specialist palliative care services across Lincolnshire, supporting both the acute sector and the community services. Within those areas, other organisations including independent and charitable providers as well as specialist services established in the community and hospitals contribute to delivering care. The successful applicant will be able to support cross organisational SPC working.

The job will include liaising with and teaching nursing staff, health care assistants, therapists and other members of the multidisciplinary team. It will also include teaching medical students rotating through the ward, teaching and appraising FY and ST trainees and SpRs on rotation at the Hospital.

Working for our organisation

Thank you for your interest in this exciting role within Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH).

Our combined Trusts are some of the most complex NHS organisations in the country, with multiple sites across a predominantly rural and coastal location. In common with many NHS organisations, we are faced with growing demand for our services at a time when our models of care and our estates are stretched. We take extraordinary pride in building working environments where staff feel valued, cared for and part of a team. We are delighted this can be seen within the latest National Staff Survey results showing sustained and improved scores from both organisations.

LCHG adopted a vision of"Caring and building a healthier future for all" and three values to show what we stand for, how we want to be known and how we behave. Our Values: 'Compassionate, Collaborative and Innovative' represent how we identify, the beliefs that motivate us, and what is important to us as a Group and underpin the behaviours that we want to be accountable to uphold, and to hold others in our Group accountable for. Ultimately, these are the foundations upon which we are building the Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group to build a better, healthier future for our patients and people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Engage locally and regionally in the strategic and operational delivery of excellent palliative and end of life care in Lincolnshire
• Engage in key strategic relationships and partnerships that support service developments and ensuring organisational aims are met
• To consider new partnerships with clinical teams to benefit patient care
• Support the delivery of key elements of the St Barnabas clinical strategy
• Support the delivery of key elements of ULTH strategy
• As a consultant member of the medical team, manage a clinical caseload and contribute to the delivery of palliative and end of life care across a range of settings
• Show leadership and support to ensure the quality of care provided is measured and consistently high
• Participate in ULTH’s appraisal and revalidation process ensuring all appropriate CPD, quality improvement, patient and colleague feedback is evidenced as per the national requirements.
• Take a leadership approach to the delivery of SPC education in the acute trust and wider across the system
• Contribute to quality improvement and research
• Provide guidance on ethical issues related to patient care
• Contribute to the development of innovative approaches to the delivery of specialist palliative care across all care boundaries

Person specification

Qualifications

• On GMC Specialist Register for Palliative Medicine or within 6 months of CCT or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR)
• Possession of appropriate higher postgraduate qualifications (e.g. MRCP, MRCGP)
• Other higher professional qualifications (e.g. Masters, Doctorate)

Experience, Ability and Research

• Experience in all aspects of palliative medicine in a wide range of settings.
• Experience in leading a multi-professional team.
• Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and quality improvement activity and clinical risk management
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for palliative management
• Experience of involvement in research

Management/Teaching

• Ability to plan strategically and to exercise sound judgment when faced with conflicting pressures
• Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
• Experience in teaching health professionals including medical personnel at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
• Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services
• Evidence of developing a high-quality, high-performance service

Personal Attributes

• Demonstrate the ability to work well within a multi-professional team.
• Membership of a medical defence organisation.
• Private residence within thirty minutes travelling time of St Barnabas Hospice IPU.

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Georgina Keenleyside Job title Consultant Palliative Medicine & Medical Director Email address [emailprotected] Telephone number 01522 511566 Additional information

Dr Adam Brown

Consultant Palliative Medicine St Barnabas & ULTH

[emailprotected]

01522 573336