Consultant In Palliative Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated, forward thinking Consultant in Palliative Medicine to an innovative community post in Bolton. The post holder will be joining the service at a time of exciting change and development to improve the provision of palliative care to the residents of Bolton.

The post holder will be working predominantly in the community setting, although the service is integrated, so it also provides hospital based services. This includes a proactive emergency department service by two senior clinical practitioners (8a), to identify and manage unmet palliative care needs and identify people who are sick enough to die in order to start advance care planning. This service has been shown to reduce admissions, with a low re-admission rate, and reduced length of stay.

The post holder will work alongside a consultant colleague in the community setting, to support the newly appointed community senior clinical practitioners and a specialty doctor. The service is developing to deliver a 7 day rapid response service and ‘Hospital at Home’ virtual ward provided by the palliative care senior clinical practitioners, alongside advanced clinical practitioners in the Admissions Avoidance Team and other specialist teams running virtual wards. The post holder will need to provide leadership and service development support in setting up these services .

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be joining the service at a time of exciting change and development to improve the provision of palliative and end of life care to the residents of Bolton.

The post holder will be working predominantly in the community setting, although the service is integrated, so it also provides hospital based services as well. This includes a proactive emergency department service provided by two senior clinical practitioners (8a), to identify and manage unmet palliative care needs and identify people who are sick enough to die in order to start advance care planning.

The post holder will work alongside a consultant colleague in the community setting, to support the community senior clinical practitioners (8a), a team of band 6 and 7 specialist nurses and a specialty doctor. The service also supports the placement of an FY2 trainee, who is supernumerary, and an ad hoc placement for an StR in Palliative Medicine. The service also has a specialist team of physiotherapists and occupational therapists and the team do joint visits when necessary.

The service is developing to deliver a 7 day rapid response service and ‘Hospital at Home’ virtual ward provided by the senior clinical practitioners.

The on-call requirements are yet to be determined, as weekend working to support the new service needs to be piloted, there is a requirement to be flexible and engage with these pilots. The current consultants provide 1:5 frequency 2nd on-call cover to Bolton Hospice

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oPrimary Medical Qualification MRCP, MRCGP, FRCR or FRCA
  • oOn the Specialist Register in Palliative Medicine or within 6 months of obtaining CCT

Experience

Essential

  • oExperience of the practice of multi-disciplinary Specialist Palliative Care within hospital, community and hospice settings at a senior level.
  • oExperience of teaching and educational supervision
  • oLeadership skills, including experience managing change and motivating teams
  • oEngagement with management training

Skills

Essential

  • oAdvanced Communication Skills
  • oAbility to drive service improvement
  • oIT skills and knowledge of Electronic patient record systems
  • oAbility to conduct virtual consultations where necessary
  • oCommitment to continuous personal development
  • oUnderstanding the strategic role of the consultant
  • oAble to work collaboratively with other teams
  • oTeaching experience in various settings

Knowledge

Essential

  • oKnowledge of clinical governance
  • oUnderstanding NHS structure and function
  • oExpert knowledge of symptom management and its’ safe practice in different clinical settings

Other

Essential

  • oLive within an acceptable distance of the Trust
  • oAble to participate in an on-call rota
  • oCurrent driving license and use of car for work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 23 October 2026

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