Palliative Medicine Consultant

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Salisbury seeks a Palliative Medicine Consultant to join their dynamic team. The role includes providing expert care across hospice, community, and acute settings. The ideal candidate will have full GMC registration and a CCT in Palliative Medicine. The position offers part-time hours, excellent benefits including generous holiday entitlement, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

35 days paid holiday (pro rata)

NHS discounts

On-site health and fitness club

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work effectively in hospice, community, and acute hospital settings.
• Knowledge and application of up-to-date evidence-based practice.
• Ability to perform effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and support the delivery of specialist palliative care across various settings.
• Provide on-call cover for the specialty and resident doctors.
• Support the 7-day working CNS team.

Skills

Communication skills

Ability to work in a range of clinical settings

Evidence-based practice

Leadership and management skills

Driving licence

Education

Full GMC registration

CCT in Palliative Medicine (or within 6 months)

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Client:

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Salisbury, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

01.08.2025

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Job overview

Salisbury Specialist Palliative Care Service is a well established, friendly and dynamic team committed to providing flexible and high quality care for patients and those important to them. We are looking for a Consultant to join the team on a substantive part time (8.5 PA) contract, to deliver expert care and medical leadership.
Our Specialist Palliative Care Service is a fully integrated service based at Salisbury Hospice which is situated on the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) site. This gives us invaluable infrastructure and close working relationships with both primary and secondary care colleagues. The team works collaboratively with community services, the acute trust, the other BSW (Bath and NE Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire) hospices, the ICB and new Community Contract provider HCRG.

The service is comprised of a 10 bedded specialist In-Patient Unit (IPU), Community team, Hospice at Home service, Hospital palliative Care Team, Day Services, Therapy team, Family support team and bereavement service.

Interviews for this post will be held on Monday 8th September 2025.

Main duties of the job

You will work alongside the other 3 consultants to co-ordinate, support and develop the delivery of specialist palliative care by the multi-professional team across all care settings: in the hospice, the acute hospital and community. This post is primarily based in the IPU and Community with a need to support the hospital at times to maintain cross cover and seamless working. There can be flexibility regarding the exact nature of the post depending on the successful applicant’s interests.

You will provide a 1 in 4 second on call cover to the speciality and resident doctors and support to the 7-day working CNS team and colleagues in the acute trust and community.

Due to the nature of this role and requirement to work within the community you will be required to have a driving licence and ability to drive between different locations and sites.

Please see our interactive candidate information pack for more information on this opportunity and working at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust:

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see our interactive candidate information pack for more information on this opportunity and working at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust:

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• Possession, or within 6 months of possession, of a CCT in Palliative Medicine

Experience and Clinical Skills

• Proven ability to work effectively in a range of clinical settings: Hospice, community and acute hospital
• Knowledge and application of up to date evidence based practice

Management Experience

• Ability to perform effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team and to motivate and develop staff
• Commitment to active clinical governance and learning from errors
• Evidence of management experience and an interest in leadership

Communication Skills

• Evidence of excellent communication skills

Other required skills

• Driving licence with ability to travel between locations/sites

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.