Consultant Palliative Care in Worcester

We are seeking a substantive Palliative Medicine Consultant to join the established Hospital Palliative Care Team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The successful applicant will join the existing Palliative Medicine Consultant Team to provide high-quality care to hospital inpatients and to those important to them. The successful candidate will also provide clinical advice, support and leadership to the multidisciplinary Hospital Palliative Care Team.

This role will also support a new service in the hospital based in acute receiving areas (COMPASS - Community Outreach Model for Palliative Assessment Step up/ Step down) due for launch in late 2026/early 2027 which aims to guide patients and professionals to the right care in the right place at the right time. The post is advertised as 10PA but applications for less than full-time working are welcome.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide specialist advice, support and patient review for hospital in-patients and their clinical team, with a small ad hoc outpatient caseload.
• Work closely with consultant colleagues and represent palliative care at multidisciplinary meetings.
• Collaboratively, with consultant team, lead service development and promote appropriate use of the generalised and specialist palliative care across the Trust.
• Supervise and teach specialty trainees, clinical fellows, resident doctors, medical students and other professionals.
• Support the new COMPASS service.
• Attend relevant Trust, cross-site and system meetings and contribute to committees and working groups.
• Share the countywide out-of-hours Palliative Medicine on call rota; primarily providing telephone advice but to attend for face-to-face review of patients when clinically necessary.
• Demonstrate willingness to undertake additional responsibilities within the team, such as the role of Governance Lead.
• Protect confidential information, comply with data-protection requirements, Trust policies and procedures, and the NHS Constitution.

About us:

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond. The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester. Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise. Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Palliative Medicine (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via CCT or CESR (CP). Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent.
• Experience: Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Palliative Medicine. Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty.
• Personal Attributes: Ability to work in a team. Enquiring, critical approach to work. Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
• Teaching Experience: Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines. Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates.
• Management and Administrative Experience: Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively. Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service.
• Research Experience: Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems. An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiatives.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.