Consultant in Specialist Palliative Care - Community

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Consultant in Specialist Palliative Care - Community NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Main area Medical and Dental Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 409-S

Site MWL Trust - Community Town Prescot Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/11/:59 Interview date 04/12/2026

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Job overview This full-time substantive Consultant in Palliative Medicine post is an exciting opportunity to join the motivated and dynamic Community Specialist Palliative Care Team (CSPCT) in St Helens and Knowsley. The main aims of the post are to improve the consistency of consultant cover within the community, increase the capacity for medical domiciliary visits for complex patients, and work strategically with primary care and acute trust services to develop improved pathways of care and reduce avoidable hospital admissions.

The post holder will work within the wider specialist palliative care service (SPS) in St Helens and Knowsley with consultant colleagues working in the community, Whiston Hospital and Willowbrook Hospice.

Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK or equivalent qualifications), to be fully registered with the General Medical Council, and to be on the Specialist Register or due to obtain their CCT within six months of the date of interview.

Main duties of the job The post is full time (10 PA) with 7.5 DCC (including 1.5 PAs for clinical admin) and 2.5 SPA subject to agreement as below. 1 PA = 4 hours.

WORKING WEEK

LOCATION

TYPE OF WORK

MONDAY

AM

Admissions meeting

Community Clinical Meeting

Domiciliary visits and advice

1.0 DCC

PM

Domiciliary visits and advice

Non-core SPA - primary care and acute trust liaison and education

0.5 DCC

0.5 SPA

TUESDAY

AM

Admissions meeting

Domiciliary visits and advice

1.0 DCC

PM

Outpatient clinic (including 0.25 clinical admin time)

1.0 DCC

WEDNESDAY

AM

Admissions meeting

Clinical advice

Cross boundary MDT meeting and clinical admin

0.5 DCC

0.5 DCC

PM

Core SPA including appraisal and revalidation, CPD, mandatory training, clinical governance activities

1.0 SPA

THURSDAY

AM

Core SPA including appraisal and revalidation, CPD, mandatory training, clinical governance activities

0.5 SPA

0.5 SPA

PM

Domiciliary visits and advice

Clinical admin

0.75 DCC

0.25 DCC

FRIDAY

AM

Admissions meeting

Community Clinical Meeting

Domiciliary visits and advice

1.0 DCC

PM

Domiciliary visits and advice

Clinical Admin.

0.5 DCC

0.5 DCC

Working for our organisation Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Core SPA time for full-time consultants is 1.5 PAs per week for professional activity to support revalidation, personal appraisal, personal job planning, mandatory training, and participation at consultant and governance meetings.

Non-core SPA time is objective based and is offered after the purpose and content is agreed between the consultant and the clinical director. It should align with Trust objectives and have evidence of output.

SPA activity must be relevant to the Trust and individual's needs, and must be agreed at the job planning session in line with the Medical Workforce (Non-Training) Job Planning Policy.

It is a requirement of the post that holders comply with Trust policies and procedures, have (and maintain) GMC registration / licensing and participate in a formal CPD programme (The Trust supports the requirements for Continuing Medical Education as laid down by the Royal College of Physicians and are committed to providing time and financial support for these activities). The post-holders must also participate in regular medical audit and in annual appraisal and job planning with the Clinical Director or one of the other qualified appraisers within the Trust. The Trust supports doctors going through the revalidation process and access to the RCP online CPD scheme. The Trust has a policy to support access to mentorship.

On-Call

The job plan includes a 1:8 non-resident senior on call responsibility (weekday and weekend) which attracts an 5% availability supplement. This provides primarily telephone support to specialty grade doctors for the Hospice in-patient unit, and the Community and Hospital Services via the 24-Hour Advice Line. Should the post holder be required to attend any site they will be compensated with time off in lieu.

Please find attached detailed job description and person specification for main responsibilities and requirements.

Person specification Our Values

• We are Kind
• We are Open
• We are Inclusive

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and on Specialist Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview
• Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to provide evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT on successful application
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCP or equivalent medical qualification
• MD/PHD or equivalent medical qualification

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of the practice of specialist palliative care at a senior level and leadership of the multidisciplinary team
• Knowledge of clinical governance
• Able to lead Clinical Audit
• Experience of teaching/educational supervision
• Proven leadership skills, including experience in managing change and motivating teams
• Understanding of NHS structure and function
• Understanding of the regulations that relate to and the requirements of CQC.
• Research experience
• Experience of NHS finance and commissioning
• Experience of clinical networks acting as a representative of an organisation
• Engagement with management training/management course or qualification

Skills

• Advanced Communication Skills
• Ability to drive service improvement
• Strategic thinker
• Excellent IT skills and knowledge of electronic patient record systems.
• Commitment to continuous personal development
• Ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• Commitment to Partnership working

Other

• Current Driving licence/use of car for work purposes
• Full indemnity cover

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
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