Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine

Job overview

If you believe that how we care is just as important as what we do, this role offers a deeply meaningful opportunity to make a lasting difference.

Following new funding, we are expanding our team to further strengthen the support and continuity of care we provide to patients and their families. We’re now inviting a dedicated Consultant to join our Specialist Palliative Care Team, serving across Hull Royal Infirmary, Castle Hill Hospital, and the wider community.

Our department is built on compassion, respect, and teamwork - values reflected in our remarkably low staff turnover, with colleagues who have individually served for over 14 and 17 years. This continuity speaks to the strong sense of belonging and purpose our team shares.

You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary service comprising Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialists (Bands 6–7), and a dedicated administrator, supported by colleagues in chaplaincy, social work, psychology, pharmacy, pain management, and therapies.  In 2024 alone, the service received 2,376 referrals, highlighting both the scale and trust placed in our team.

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Main duties of the job

We understand that palliative care is as individual as the people who provide it. That’s why we offer flexibility to shape your role around your interests and expertise.  You may wish to:

• Broaden your experience through rotation across hospital, community and hospice settings, or
• Deepen your expertise by focusing on a particular area of care - whether that’s working in acute, community, or specialist services such as homelessness, prisons, or specific disease pathways.

Whatever your path, you’ll be supported within a compassionate, values-led environment that honours both patients and staff, while playing a vital role in:

• Strengthening partnerships across Hull and East Riding, helping to shape truly integrated care for those with complex needs
• About You

• Delivering high-quality, person-centred specialist palliative care in the community and/or hospital settings.

We are looking for a compassionate, collaborative clinician who brings clinical excellence and emotional intelligence in equal measure.  If you take pride in the privilege of supporting patients and families through some of life’s most significant and challenging moments, and value being part of a team that does the same, then this role offers you the opportunity to contribute to a service defined by empathy, expertise, and integrity - and to help shape the future of palliative and end of life care within a deeply committed team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on this advertised role, please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification