Job overview
Applications are invited for the above post in The Palliative Medicine Department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Candidates with consultant experience are warmly invited to consider this exciting opportunity of joining an established team and helping to lead the palliative care department. This is a PA post which includes an on call commitment attracting category B availability supplement and PA remuneration. Applications from those able to work part time will be considered.
Main duties of the job
The Palliative Medicine Department contains a Community Service offering specialist support to patients across Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire including a supportive care day service, a Hospital Service working across all four acute hospital sites and two inpatient hospice units (Sobell House and Katharine House) with bed capacity between them.
The successful candidates will join a team of consultants, associate specialists and specialty doctors, fellows and doctors in training ( palliative medicine, general practice). There is an expectation that the successful candidate will play a strategic leadership role in helping to deliver and enhance palliative care across the hospital, community and hospice settings.
The Hospice is seeking a capable, enthusiastic doctor who enjoys working in a tertiary referral centre as well as in the community. In addition to superb clinical skills the right doctors will enjoy working in a large team, teaching as part of the University of Oxford Medical School course on Palliative Medicine as well as to the broad MDT and quality improvement work. This post is a substantive role.
For further information please contact Dr Victoria Bradley, Clinical Lead Sobell House via or Rebecca Davies (email: k or tel: ()). Visits to the unit are welcomed and encouraged.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .