Consultant in Palliative Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Job summary

This is a post for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. The successful candidate will work with the existing palliative medicine consultant and support the Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) and Enhanced supportive Care (ESC) services on both sites of the Trust. The post is part of the Oncology directorate and the post will be based at Maidstone hospital, the main site for Kent Oncology services.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team, and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.

2. To participate in clinical and other service activities and development to ensure a high standard of patient care across the Trust.

3. To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the speciality, to provide high-quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to contribute to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.

4. To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the speciality covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to job planning, unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.

5. To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full registration and a licence to practise with the GMC:
  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent
  • Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for Palliative Medicine by CCT or Portfolio Pathway in Palliative Medicine, or training to a level commensurate with the award of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or within six months of award of CCT by date of interview

Desirable

  • Research degree in allied fields (MD/PhD)

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
  • Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in specialty.
  • Experience in working effectively within a multidisciplinary team and specialist palliative care unit.
  • Ability to provide palliative care advice and support to other healthcare professionals in the palliative care team, hospital and community settings.

Desirable

  • Experience in Clinical Audit and/or Research
  • Experience in medical education
  • Experience in Enhanced Supportive Care or equivalent

Skills

Essential

  • Enthusiasm for development of service.
  • Ability to organise and manage workload.
  • Ability to undertake palliative care assessments in a variety of settings including hospital wards and outpatient clinics.
  • Ability to undertake training & mentoring of staff in junior grades
  • Ability to use IT equipment (e-mail, word processing etc) and learn clinical IT systems use

Desirable

  • An interest and a capacity to teach and learn from members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Sound knowledge of NHS Management structures/systems

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: 29 October 2026

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