Palliative Medicine Consultant

Job summary

Salisbury Specialist Palliative Care Service is a well established, friendly and dynamic team committed to providing flexible and high quality care for patients and those important to them. We are looking for a Consultant to join the team on a substantive part time (8.5 PA) contract, to deliver expert care and medical leadership.Our Specialist Palliative Care Service is a fully integrated service based at Salisbury Hospice which is situated on the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) site. This gives us invaluable infrastructure and close working relationships with both primary and secondary care colleagues. The team works collaboratively with community services, the acute trust, the other BSW (Bath and NE Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire) hospices, the ICB and new Community Contract provider HCRG.

The service is comprised of a 10 bedded specialist In-Patient Unit (IPU), Community team, Hospice at Home service, Hospital palliative Care Team, Day Services, Therapy team, Family support team and bereavement service.

Interviews for this post will be held on Monday 8th September 2025.

Main duties of the job

You will work alongside the other 3 consultants to co-ordinate, support and develop the delivery of specialist palliative care by the multi-professional team across all care settings: in the hospice, the acute hospital and community. This post is primarily based in the IPU and Community with a need to support the hospital at times to maintain cross cover and seamless working. There can be flexibility regarding the exact nature of the post depending on the successful applicant's interests.

You will provide a 1 in 4 second on call cover to the speciality and resident doctors and support to the 7-day working CNS team and colleagues in the acute trust and community.

Due to the nature of this role and requirement to work within the community you will be required to have a driving licence and ability to drive between different locations and sites.

Please see our interactive candidate information pack for more information on this opportunity and working at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust:Candidate information pack Consultant Palliative Medicine

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk