Consultant in Palliative Medicine

An opportunity has arisen tojoin the St Elizabeth Hospice Great Yarmouth and Waveney Consultant PalliativeCare team. You will join a dynamic, friendly and established team of medicaland nurse consultants and the wider multidisciplinary team. Your post willprovide input predominantly to the James Paget University Hospital but with somecommunity and occasional inpatient unit cover at Beccles hospital. You will joinat a very exciting time in the region as new services are designed andimplemented. A new community hospice build for the area is at advanced stagesof development.

The successful candidate will commencein August 2026. You will be employed bySt Elizabeth Hospice, supported by NHS Terms and Conditions. Eight sessions areavailable plus out of hours responsibility. There is flexibility around how thejob plan is delivered; interested candidates are strongly encouraged toapproach us for discussion.

Please note that job description is awaiting RCP approval.

Main duties of the job A Consultant post is availabledue to reconfiguration of services and recent expansion of the team. After 35years of delivering excellent care, St Elizabeth Hospice continues to driveforward innovation and development of services. Consultants in the team areinvolved in research and committed to the continual improvement of clinicalcare. You will have the opportunity to experience the design and early buildstages of a brand new hospice in the locality, and work in an acute hospitalthat is also undergoing a new hospital build program. The hospital sessions areprovided as in-reach, supporting the JPUH multidisciplinary Palliative CareTeam. The working relationship between the two organisations is well establishedclinically and there is excellent communication and cross setting workingacross acute, community and hospice inpatient settings.

Interviewdate: 18th March 2026

About us St Elizabeth Hospice is ratedCQC outstanding and provides services in a large geographical area, offeringurban and rural diversity and places of outstanding natural beauty. Thiscoastal area of the country supports a good work-life balance and is easilyaccessible to London and beyond. There are strong links between local acute andpalliative care providers and with medical schools in the Universities of EastAnglia and Cambridge. Teaching opportunities abound.

StElizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults andyoung people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse,neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to arigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminalrecords and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies inplace which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected toundertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with theknowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.

Job responsibilities JOBSUMMARY

To work together withthe other palliative medicine consultants in the provision of medical servicesto patients of St Elizabeth Hospice, James Paget Hospital and East CoastCommunity Healthcare and to support staff.To develop services and improve integrated working between local PalliativeCare providers (Hospice, Hospital and in the wider community of the IntegratedCare Systems).

This post has arisen following a readjustmentof posts following retirement and changes to team working patterns associatedwith expansion into the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Area. This post is 0.8 WTE. Termsand Conditions will be based on the current NHS Consultant Contract, (see JobPlans below) with the postholders contract held at the Hospice and there willbe an honorary contract with the James Paget Hospital and ECCH as required.

The new post holder will join a growing medicalteam who work collaboratively and supportively to cover services across the twoservice areas, and rotation of area of responsibility is usual.

Current consultant provision is 5.1 WTE (Hospice)of which 0.2 WTE supports Ipswich hospital alongside another 0.95 WTEconsultant. There will be cover from the other consultants for leave and asneed arises. There are also 3 full time Nurse Consultants embedded within theteam, one of whom provides clinical and service development support for GreatYarmouth and Waveney services.

There are two Specialty Registrars on the Eastof England Palliative Medicine Specialty Training Scheme. There are also four middlegrade doctors providing support to both the IPUs as well as the outpatientclinical areas. There are 6 GPvocational training scheme doctors on attachment rotating with otherspecialties and two foundation year doctors.

The team works closely alongside the fullmultidisciplinary team including nurses, Clinical Nurse Specialists, healthcareassistants, nurse associates, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists,counsellors, spiritual care workers and volunteers.

The On-call commitment is approximately 1 in 8second on call with 5% availability supplement. This provides telephonicmedical and symptom control advice to St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich Hospital,West Suffolk Hospital and St Nicholas Hospice Care in Bury St Edmunds, JamesPaget Hospital (Gorleston), and community calls in Suffolk and the GreatYarmouth and Waveney area. This may involve taking calls from GPs, hospitaldoctors, nurses or allied healthcare professionals. There is no formalexpectation of face-to-face reviews on-call but should the consultant be onsite during that time then this time will be deducted from their clinical PAsin the next week and remunerated accordingly. There may be the need to dooccasional first on-call on an emergency basis and this will be compensated bya PA off in lieu for each PA done as first on-call (week night equals 1 PA andweekend equals 6 PAs).

Formal consultant appraisal will be completedby the hospice appraisal team with St Elizabeth Hospice as the designated body andthe Medical Director of the Hospice as Responsible Officer. The postholder willbe supported through the appraisal and revalidation process.

All new consultants can be mentored by anestablished consultant within the organisation or by one of the consultantsfrom the neighbouring Palliative Care service providers to enable them tosettle into the post and to support them in their initial years as aconsultant. Established consultants will also have access to mentoring orsupport as needed.

Professional and Managerial

1.Oncall will be based on NHS terms and conditions and will be at 5%. There is noformal expectation of face-to-face reviews on call but should the consultant beon site during that time then this time will be deducted from their clinicalPAs in the next week. The job plan will then be reviewed to determine if adesignated PA is needed for on call.

2.Toassist in the supervision of junior medical and other staff in the hospice,ensuring that medical care and practice follow professional guidelines and StElizabeth Hospice Policies and Procedures.

3.Tosupport effective liaison and communication with relevant disciplines inrespect of all aspects of palliative and end of life care.

4.Toattend multidisciplinary team meetings at St Elizabeth Hospice, James PagetHospital or in the community (such as GSF meetings).

5.Toestablish and provide outpatient clinics and day services by St ElizabethHospice at Beccles Hospital or at other community sites as required and toundertake domiciliary visits as necessary.

6.Towork alongside key JPUH stakeholders to maintain and develop hospital-basedpalliative and end of life care in line with agreed strategic aims. The postmay incorporate the Clinical Lead for palliative care role, as a Trust internalappointment.

7.Tobe responsible with the other consultants for the admission, inpatient care anddischarge of patients at hospice inpatient sites.

8.Todevelop and maintain knowledge and skills to a level appropriate to theresponsibilities of the post.

9.Towork with colleagues in the development and provision of education and trainingin palliative care at St Elizabeth Hospice inpatient sites, James PagetHospital and the community.

10.Tocontribute to the initiation and conduct of research projects in PalliativeCare.

11.Toinitiate and participate in audit regarding palliative and end of life care inthe hospice, hospital and community

12.Torepresent the Hospice on local and national bodies as appropriate.

13.Formalconsultant appraisal will be completed by the hospice appraisal team with StElizabeth Hospice as the designated body with the Medical Director of theHospice as Responsible Officer.

14.Thepostholder will have administrative support from the patient servicesadministrators and will have a dedicated laptop in a sharedoffice and office facilities at associated sites.

Service Development

15.Towork alongside colleagues in the development of hospice policies, proceduresand services.

16.Therewill be opportunity for post holders to develop service roles that may includeappraisal and clinical supervisor roles.

General

17.Tobe a fully subscribed member of a recognised professional defence organisationand to provide evidence of membership to the Hospice HR department annually, oron request.

18.Towork at all times within the policies and procedures of the Hospice, reviewingsame and contributing to their development as appropriate, and to ensurecompliance to same by other members of staff.

19.Towork at all times within the policies and procedures of the James PagetHospital Foundation NHS Trust when working at the Trust.

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