Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 8 sessions per week (8 Programmed Activities (PAs) + 2nd On-Call (Category A, approx. 1:9 rota))
- Job ref
- 151-WPHCON-61
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital & Thames Hospice
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant - Palliative Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Applications are invited for a substantive Consultant in Palliative Medicine post jointly delivered between Wexham Park Hospital and Thames Hospice. This innovative cross-site role reflects a shared commitment to delivering integrated specialist palliative and end-of-life care across hospital and community settings.
Developed in line with the priorities of the Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB), the post aims to strengthen continuity of care for patients with complex palliative needs across East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire.
The successful candidate will work with the Supportive and Palliative Care multidisciplinary team at Wexham Park Hospital and the community services at Thames Hospice, contributing to the continued development of integrated palliative care services across the region.
This role builds on an existing shared consultant model established between the organisations in 2023 and offers an excellent opportunity for a clinician interested in innovative service development, integrated care and community-based palliative medicine.
Main duties of the job
This post has been developed to expand consultant-level palliative medicine provision in community settings across East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire.
The post holder will be primarily based at Thames Hospice, with one day per week at Wexham Park Hospital, supporting integration between acute and community services.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key elements of the role include:
• Clinical leadership of the Thames Hospice Virtual Ward (5 beds)
• Specialist medical support for patients under the Hospice at Home service
• Collaborative working with acute teams at Wexham Park Hospital, particularly within the Emergency Department and acute medical services
• Supporting admission avoidance and facilitating timely discharge where appropriate
• Participation in service development across the Integrated Care System
The role offers opportunities to contribute to education, quality improvement and research across both organisations.
The post holder will join a collaborative and supportive consultant team working across hospice and hospital services.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full registration with the GMC MRCP/MRCGP
Desirable criteria
- • Other higher degree or diploma
Experience
Essential criteria
- • To have a CCT or equivalent experience in palliative medicine or be within six months of achieving such at the time of interview
- • Excellent clinical skills in specialist palliative care
- • Proven ability to efficiently and sensitively manage patients with complex physical, psychological, spiritual and social problems
- • Ability to respond sensitively to needs of carers, relatives and friends of people with palliative care needs
- • Proven ability to work well within a multidisciplinary and support others to flourish
- • Ability to work sensitivity within a multicultural community
- • A creative and imaginative approach to service delivery and improvement
- • The highest ethical and professional standards
- • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- • Commitment to developing specialist palliative care services in all settings
- • Ability to work under pressure
- • Ability to both lead and be led as part of a team
- • Ability to manage time effectively
Desirable criteria
- None
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • An understanding of and proven abilities in clinical audit
- • An understanding of the importance of continuous professional development and life-long learning and commitment thereto
- • An understanding of and a proven ability to apply research findings to individual patients or populations of patients
- • Ability and commitment to teach in a clinical and academic setting
- • Ability and commitment to teaching various clinical disciplines
- • Evidence of management and leadership skills or training
- • Ability to effectively organise, prioritise and manage clinical workload
- • Commuter literacy and IT skills
- • Ability to lead multi-professional teams and be able to work effectively within such teams
- • Experience supervising junior medical staff
- • Be skilled at encouraging and giving feedback
- • Ability to organise time effectively and meet deadlines
- • Experience of taking responsibility for own actions and know when to seek advice appropriately
- • Ability to remain calm under pressure
- • Be a skilled communicator, with a commitment to continuous improvement
- • Ability to develop effective and supportive relationships with colleagues
- • Have an interest in complex decision- making and ethical issues, working as part of a team and with patients and families to find the best approach
- • Commitment to Thames Hospice and FHFT Values
Desirable criteria
- • Proven ability and commitment to carry out high quality research leading to publication
- • Experience of contributing to multi- professional / multiagency clinical guidelines or care pathways
- • Teaching qualification
- • Proven experience of management in a clinical area
- • Ability to support advanced practitioners from other professional groups develop new skills
- • Advanced Communication Skills training
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to reach the hospice within 45 minutes if 1st on call (very rare)
- • Appointment is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check including Barred Lists
- Ability to travel between sites
Desirable criteria
- None
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Fiona Lisney
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6154879
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