Consultant Palliative Medicine

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Lancashire is seeking a Consultant in Palliative Medicine to deliver specialist care across community and Living Well services. This role involves collaboration with a multi-professional team to ensure continuity of care and to support the mission of compassionate care at the end of life. The successful candidate will also contribute to strategy implementation and quality improvement initiatives. Opportunities for research, teaching, and professional development are available, alongside a supportive environment emphasizing teamwork and employee wellbeing.

Benefits

38 days annual leave

Flexible working patterns

Health and Wellbeing benefits

Free car parking

Professional registration fees reimbursed

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Entry on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register required.
• Evidence of delivering high quality teaching programmes.
• Research experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care to patients in community and Living Well services.
• Participate in weekly Specialist Palliative Care Multidisciplinary.
• Contribute to local, regional or national audit projects.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Competent computer and IT skills

Leadership skills

Motivation and team inspiration

Service development and change management

Education

MB ChB or equivalent

MRCP (UK) or equivalent

Teaching qualification such as PGCE

Job description

Consultant Palliative Medicine

Go back Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 January 2026

This post holds a Consultant standard contract with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an honorary contract with Trinity Hospice. At the hospice, the post is managerially and professionally accountable to the Medical Director. The role provides specialist palliative care primarily across community and Living Well services, with occasional cross-cover in other settings such as the Inpatient Unit. The postholder will work collaboratively with consultants and the wider multi-professional team to ensure continuity of specialist palliative care across the Fylde Coast, supporting Trinity's mission ("enabling compassionate care on the journey to end of life") and the values of both Trinity Hospice and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. The community team is an advisory service, comprising of Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs), Associate CNSs and Trainee Nursing Associates who provide domically review and support to patients. This service includes the community palliative care team, nurse led clinic and virtual ward. The Living Well service is a community service based in the Living Well Centre, supported by ACPs, CNSs and allied health professional team members. Services include nurse led clinic, 8 week community programme and frailty services.

The postholder will need to be flexible to work within other departments should there be a need.

AAC Interview to be held on Friday 20th February 2026.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Provide direct clinical care to patients under Trinity Hospice, predominantly in community and Living Well services.

Participate in weekly Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) Multidisciplinary.

Work collaboratively with consultants and the wider multi-professional team to ensure continuity of specialist palliative care across the Fylde Coast. This includes contributing to the "Specialist of the Day" rota.

Support delivery of best practice in line with the 2024-2027 Fylde Coast End of Life Care Strategy and the National Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care.

Work with the Fylde Coast Strategic End of Life Group to support strategy implementation and ongoing system-wide development.

Contribute to education for all staff groups across Trinity Hospice and Blackpool Teaching Hospital.

Provide clinical leadership with hospital, hospice and community colleagues on safe practice, service development, and policy/protocol review.

Act as a role model across the MDT in clinical and educational domains.

Lead or contribute to quality improvement or clinical audit cycles relevant to palliative and end of life care.

Participate in local, regional or national audit projects as appropriate.

Support or participate in research activity within the service, including NIHR portfolio studies, local recruiting studies, or academic collaborations.

About us

As the palliative care hub for the Fylde Coast, Trinity Hospice has been providing excellent specialist palliative and end of life care for adults and children with progressive life limiting illnesses for 40 years. Trinity is highly regarded by partners and the public as a well-run charity eager to build and sustain effective partnerships which does not rest on its laurels.

Trinity is an award-winning organisation, having won National Medium Sized Charity of the Year in 2014, Lancashire Charity of the Year in 2015, the 2019 Nursing Times National Award for Innovation in Technology, retaining Investors in People Gold in 2022 as well as being rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in 2017.

What We Offer

• A supportive, values-driven environment with a strong focus on teamwork and professional growth.
• Opportunities for research, teaching, and leadership development, including access to in-house coaching and mentoring.
• Flexible working patterns and job plan reviews to support work-life balance.
• 38 days annual leave each year, pro rata (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Various Health and Wellbeing benefits including access to complementary therapy and counselling.
• Free car parking on site
• Professional annual Registration fees reimbursed
• Pension scheme or NHS Pensions are transferable

Job responsibilities

Education, Supervision and Teaching

Provide support and supervision to Specialty Doctors, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) and Trainee ACPs.

Opportunity to act as a named clinical supervisor for GP trainees and Palliative Medicine Specialty Registrars, providing supervision, support and assessment in line with GMC and local training requirements. There may be future opportunities to undertake the role of named educational supervisor, subject to organisational need and appropriate training

Participate in delivering undergraduate and multiprofessional teaching.

The hospice hosts resident doctors in training placements and is an approved training hospice for GPSTs and Specialty Trainees in Palliative Medicine.

The hospice offers Special Study Modules (SSM) to students at the Medical School at Lancaster and other ad hoc placements as requested.

The hospice is a teaching centre for undergraduate medical students. The successful candidate will participate in undergraduate teaching within the sessions allocated to support professional activities.

The hospice is expanding its nursing skill mix with the development of several nursing associate roles and hosts nursing students from across the North West. The candidate would be encouraged to work with the clinical educator to enhance the opportunities to influence both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and other allied professionals exposure to palliative and end of life care training and experience.

Quality Improvement, Audit and Research

Lead or contribute to quality improvement or clinical audit cycles relevant to palliative and end of life care.

Participate in local, regional or national audit projects as appropriate.

Support or participate in research activity within the service, including NIHR portfolio studies, local recruiting studies, or academic collaborations.

Trinity is a research generating hospice, having a track record in actively participating in research projects across a wide spectrum of areas both nationally and internationally. The hospice works closely with the International End of Life Observatory at Lancaster University with regards to research. There would be opportunity to supervise academic clinical fellows, PhD and MSc students.

Clinical Leadership and Service Development

Provide clinical leadership with hospital, hospice and community colleagues on safe practice, service development, and policy/protocol review.

Act as a role model across the MDT in clinical and educational domains.

Support delivery of best practice in line with the 2024-2027 Fylde Coast End of Life Care Strategy and the National Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care.

Work with the Fylde Coast Strategic End of Life Group to support strategy implementation and ongoing system-wide development.

Contribute to the development of a future-fit workforce, supporting skill mix expansion and innovative models of care.

Engage in collaborative service development, including participation in local and regional networks and strategy groups

On-call Commitment

Participate in the second on-call medical rota (Category B), currently 1 in 5 to 1 in 8.

First on-call is provided by resident doctors, GP trainees and ACPs.

Overnight contacts and face-to-face reviews for second on-call are currently minimal. Intensity is reviewed via job planning.

The rota attracts a 2% availability supplement plus 0.5 PA for predictable on-call duties

Person Specification

Legal Requirements

• Entry on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register via one of the following: a) Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) (the proposed CCT date must be within six months of the interview); b) Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR); c) European Community Rights.

Qualifications and Training

• MB ChB or equivalent.
• MRCP (UK) or equivalent.
• Teaching qualification such as PGCE.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills - both oral and written.
• Competent computer and IT skills.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload and to delegate responsibility and supervise staff.
• Ability to motivate and inspire a multi-disciplinary team and work sensitively within teams and across organisations.
• Involvement and evidence of implementation of service development and managing change in a healthcare setting.
• Leadership skills - ability to take responsibility, show leadership and make decisions, to inspire colleagues and get the best out of them including ideas and innovations. Able to represent the hospice when necessary with colleagues, partners, patients and those close to them.
• Evidence of delivering high quality teaching programmes to undergraduates.
• Evidence of supervising doctors in training.
• Research experience.

Knowledge/Research

• Awareness of independent hospice sector and its links with the NHS.
• Awareness of NHS organisation and core values of NHS.
• Understanding of the management responsibilities of a consultant working in a hospice setting.
• Participation in a management/ leadership training course.

Knowledge/Research

• Commitment to CPD and requirements of clinical governance and audit.
• A proven track record in self- directed service improvement.
• Publications in peer reviewed journals.

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.

Address

Trinity Hospice & Palliative Care Services

Trinity Hospice & Palliative Care Services