Substantive Consultant in Palliative Medicine

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join a dynamic team at a leading NHS Foundation Trust. This role offers the opportunity to lead and enhance palliative care services, working across acute hospitals and community settings. The successful candidate will be part of a collaborative team, contributing to clinical excellence and education within a prestigious medical school. This permanent, full-time position promises a rewarding career path in a supportive environment, where your expertise will significantly impact patient care and outcomes.

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent and MRCP/MRCGP required.
• Experience in palliative care and leadership roles is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and enhance palliative care across various settings.
• Provide specialist support to patients in community and hospital services.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Clinical Management

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Teaching Skills

Education

MBBS or equivalent

MRCP / MRCGP or equivalent

Specialist Register Entry

Job description

Job summary

Applications are invited for the above post in The Palliative Medicine Department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Candidates with consultant experience are warmly invited to consider this exciting opportunity of joining an established team and helping to lead the palliative care department. This is a 10 PA post which includes an on call commitment attracting category B availability supplement and PA remuneration. Applications from those able to work part time will be considered.

Main duties of the job

The Palliative Medicine Department contains a Community Service offering specialist support to patients across Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire including a supportive care day service, a Hospital Service working across all four acute hospital sites and two inpatient hospice units (Sobell House and Katharine House) with 28 bed capacity between them.

The successful candidates will join a team of 7 consultants, 2 associate specialists and 6 specialty doctors, 2 fellows and 7 doctors in training (3 palliative medicine, 4 general practice). There is an expectation that the successful candidate will play a strategic leadership role in helping to deliver and enhance palliative care across the hospital, community and hospice settings.

The Hospice is seeking a capable, enthusiastic doctor who enjoys working in a tertiary referral centre as well as in the community. In addition to superb clinical skills the right doctors will enjoy working in a large team, teaching as part of the University of Oxford Medical School course on Palliative Medicine as well as to the broad MDT and quality improvement work. This post is a substantive role.

For further information please contact Dr Victoria Bradley, Clinical Lead Sobell House via or Rebecca Davies (email: [e-mail] or tel: 01865 (5)72125). Visits to the unit are welcomed and encouraged.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Not defined

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

321-MS-CON-7066696-S5

Job locations

Churchill Hospital

Old Road

Oxford

OX3 7LJ

Job description Job responsibilities

The Palliative Medicine Department at OUHFT is a growing and dynamic department containing a Community Service offering specialist support to patients across Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire, a Hospital Service working across all four acute hospital sites and two inpatient hospice units (Sobell House and Katharine House) with 28 bed capacity between them as well as a burgeoning Supportive Palliative Care service with well-developed models in Renal Supportive Care, Oncology, Haematology and Cardiology. The Department has recently undertaken a large multi-million pound expansion with the Rapid Intervention in Palliative and End of Life Care project creating an enhanced co-ordiation Hub, Hospice Outreach and Home Hospice Teams and Hospital Rapid Response.

The successful candidates will be part of a team of 8 consultants, currently consisting of Prof Bee Wee, Dr Mary Miller, Dr Tim Harrison, Dr Victoria Bradley, Dr Matthew Carey, Dr Charlie Bond, Dr Victoria Hedges and Dr Farzana Virani. In addition, the team consists of three associate specialists, seven specialty doctors, two fellows and seven doctors in training (3 palliative medicine, 4 general practice). The scope of work covered by the medical team includes clinical care in the specialist service (inpatient, outpatient including Living Well day services, community specialist team, hospital team, lymphoedema and bereavement), clinical care and leadership of end of life care across the Trust, education and research. The consultants rotate key clinical responsibility for different parts of the clinical service every 1-2 years as mutually agreed.

The postholders base will be either at Sobell House Hospice at the Churchill Hospital or at Katharine House Hospice but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trusts locations.

Job description Job responsibilities

The Palliative Medicine Department at OUHFT is a growing and dynamic department containing a Community Service offering specialist support to patients across Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire, a Hospital Service working across all four acute hospital sites and two inpatient hospice units (Sobell House and Katharine House) with 28 bed capacity between them as well as a burgeoning Supportive Palliative Care service with well-developed models in Renal Supportive Care, Oncology, Haematology and Cardiology. The Department has recently undertaken a large multi-million pound expansion with the Rapid Intervention in Palliative and End of Life Care project creating an enhanced co-ordiation Hub, Hospice Outreach and Home Hospice Teams and Hospital Rapid Response.

The successful candidates will be part of a team of 8 consultants, currently consisting of Prof Bee Wee, Dr Mary Miller, Dr Tim Harrison, Dr Victoria Bradley, Dr Matthew Carey, Dr Charlie Bond, Dr Victoria Hedges and Dr Farzana Virani. In addition, the team consists of three associate specialists, seven specialty doctors, two fellows and seven doctors in training (3 palliative medicine, 4 general practice). The scope of work covered by the medical team includes clinical care in the specialist service (inpatient, outpatient including Living Well day services, community specialist team, hospital team, lymphoedema and bereavement), clinical care and leadership of end of life care across the Trust, education and research. The consultants rotate key clinical responsibility for different parts of the clinical service every 1-2 years as mutually agreed.

The postholders base will be either at Sobell House Hospice at the Churchill Hospital or at Katharine House Hospice but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trusts locations.

Person Specification Qualifications/Training Essential

• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCP / MRCGP or equivalent
• Entry on the specialist register to practise palliative medicine (CCT or CESR route both acceptable) or within 6 months of achieving entry
• Full GMC registration and licence to practise

Desirable

• Diploma or other qualification in palliative care
• Research degree
• Worked in a tertiary referral hospital
• Experience of working in or with community based services

Experience Essential

• Fit to practice safely as defined by GMC
• Evidence of ability to identify a problem, understand it, develop and implement a management strategy
• Experience of setting and maintaining work standards
• Methodical, conscientious & reliable
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.

Desirable

• Previous consultant experience, especially if in tertiary hospital
• Previous NHS experience
• Evidence of team working
• Experience of teaching
• Previous research experience
• Previous leadership experience

Skills and Knowledge Essential

• Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
• Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
• Personal enthusiasm and motivation with the ability to encourage these attribute in others
• English as a first language or sufficient skills to enable excellent communication (ILETS 6 - 7)
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Evidence of understanding of importance of research and critical appraisal of evidence

Desirable

• Leadership training
• Management qualification.
• Communications skills training High emotional intelligence
• Education qualification
• Critical appraisal training
• Peer reviewed publications
• Research grants

Other Requirements Essential

• Transport : Car driver

Person Specification Qualifications/Training Essential

• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCP / MRCGP or equivalent
• Entry on the specialist register to practise palliative medicine (CCT or CESR route both acceptable) or within 6 months of achieving entry
• Full GMC registration and licence to practise

Desirable

• Diploma or other qualification in palliative care
• Research degree
• Worked in a tertiary referral hospital
• Experience of working in or with community based services

Experience Essential

• Fit to practice safely as defined by GMC
• Evidence of ability to identify a problem, understand it, develop and implement a management strategy
• Experience of setting and maintaining work standards
• Methodical, conscientious & reliable
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.

Desirable

• Previous consultant experience, especially if in tertiary hospital
• Previous NHS experience
• Evidence of team working
• Experience of teaching
• Previous research experience
• Previous leadership experience

Skills and Knowledge Essential

• Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
• Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
• Personal enthusiasm and motivation with the ability to encourage these attribute in others
• English as a first language or sufficient skills to enable excellent communication (ILETS 6 - 7)
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Evidence of understanding of importance of research and critical appraisal of evidence

Desirable

• Leadership training
• Management qualification.
• Communications skills training High emotional intelligence
• Education qualification
• Critical appraisal training
• Peer reviewed publications
• Research grants

Other Requirements Essential

• Transport : Car driver

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Churchill Hospital

Old Road

Oxford

OX3 7LJ

Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Churchill Hospital

Old Road

Oxford

OX3 7LJ

Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)