Clinical Fellow in Palliative Care (IMT3)

Job overview

Are you a doctor with at least four years whole time equivalent experience?  Have you worked in the NHS for at least half of that time?  Do you want to develop your skills and knowledge of Specialist Palliative Care?

The University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) Specialist Palliative Care team are inviting applications for an IMT3-level post in Palliative care.  One full time post is available for 12 months from August 2025 – August 2026.  Applications are welcome for people who wish to work less than full time and the job plan will be adjusted accordingly. There is no on-call associated with this post.

This post is predominantly clinical with one day a week dedicated to non-clinical work focusing on supporting the Quality Improvement and Education remit of the Specialist Palliative Care team at UHL.

A minimum of four years whole time equivalent postgraduate employment as a resident doctor is required, with at least two of those years spent working within the NHS. Ideally for doctors who wish to develop competencies and skills in palliative care to support application for a specialty training post in Palliative Medicine or one of the many other medical, surgical and emergency specialties where these skills are regularly utilised. Previous post holders have gone on to Palliative Medicine Training Programmes and used this time as evidence of hospital palliative care experience. Each post holder will be allocated an Educational Supervisor and expected to maintain an e portfolio.

Main duties of the job

You will join a team of Palliative Medicine Consultants and registrars, FY2 doctors and Clinical Nurse Specialists who deliver Palliative Care across Leicester’s three hospitals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post provides experience working with a specialist team to deliver Palliative Care in the acute hospital settling.

Key clinical duties at UHL:

• 1.    Participate in the face-face holistic assessment and management of hospital inpatients who have been referred to the hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team. 2.    Prescribing of appropriate palliative and anticipatory medications to manage common symptoms of patients. 3.    Undertake discussions with patients and families, including advance care planning when appropriate. 4.    Contemporaneous note keeping in medical records both on paper and electronic formats. 5.    Provide clinical supervision of resident doctors on medical wards about palliative care issues. 6.    Provide senior medical input into the Palliative Care Team across UHL. 7.    Support FY2 doctors on the team. 8.    When asked, to support the shadowing of medical students from Leicester Medical school as part of their training rotation. 9.    Help ensure safe and effective care when people move between different care settings, by adding to discharge letters, making appropriate referrals and providing guidance about medicine authorisations.