Site Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team Service Town 4 St Pancras Way Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 21/06/2026 23:59
Job overview
Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team
Consultant in Palliative Medicine
6.5 PA permanent
We are seeking a substantive community consultant in Palliative Medicine for the South Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team.
This post sits within the Camden, Islington and UCLH Palliative Care Service. Doctors on the specialist register for SPC or due to CCT within 6 months are welcome to apply. There are on call duties aligned to this post.
AAC: to be confirmed
Main duties of the job
* Provide clinical care to patients and those important to them within South Camden, and Islington (small part of Westminster). This includes visiting patients alone or jointly in their place of residence, providing telephone advice to other team members and other professionals, and conducting regular caseload reviews with the Clinical Nurse/Paramedic Specialists. The post holder will work closely all colleagues in the team, as well as colleagues within the wider service and throughout the Trust, and will liaise with professionals within the community - GPs, Community Nursing and other specialist Teams (e.g. Respiratory, Learning difficulties, Heart Failure, Dementia etc), and within St Pancras Hospital (St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit, Camden Virtual ward etc) as well as neighbouring hospitals as needed.
* Provide clinical cross cover for SPC consultants in the service who work in UCLH as needed.
* Work closely with the clinical lead for the service Dr Rasha Al-Qurainy, as well as the leads for the community team.
* Represent Palliative Care at relevant clinical and strategic meetings (e.g. NCL Specialist Palliative Care provider group, PallE8, GP Multidisciplinary meetings, Camden cross community meetings)
* Attend and contribute to the community specialist palliative care MDT meeting each week.
* Provide clinical supervision and educational supervision to trainees working within the team, as well as educational support and teaching to members of the nursing team undertaking advanced practice (e.g. non‑medical prescribing, physical assessment) and to visitors to the team.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
* Primary Medical Degree
* Approved Clinician status
* Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practice
* Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Palliative Medicine through CCT, Portfolio Pathway (CESR), REQ, or RSQ routes.
* An additional postgraduate qualification of relevance to the work
Personal Skills & Qualities
* Excellent communication and empathic skills
* The highest ethical and professional standards
* Demonstrable leadership skills
* Ability to work under pressure
* Ability to both lead and be led as part of a team
* Be skilled at encouraging and giving feedback
* Ability to work on own initiative
* Enthusiasm to work within a changing environment
Experience, Skills and Abilities
* Excellent skills in specialist palliative care
* Proven ability to efficiently manage patients with complex physical, psychological, spiritual and social problems and to respond sensitively to the needs of carers
* Proven ability to work well within a multidisciplinary team and support others to flourish
* Proven ability to lead clinical care across professional and organisational boundaries
* Ability to work with sensitivity within a multicultural society
* An understanding of the principles and practical applications of clinical governance systems, education, quality improvement
* Understanding of the drivers influencing NHS and commercial health care providers and current and proposed national organisational changes
* Ability and commitment to teach in a clinical and academic setting
* Ability to design effective teaching
* Ability and commitment to teaching various clinical disciplines
* Ability to act as a consistent reference point in a team and to take a leadership role
* Ability to prioritise workload, to delegate responsibilities as appropriate
* Ability to support advanced practitioners from other professional groups develop new skill
* Higher qualification in medical education
* Completed training to be a clinical and or educational supervisor
* Proven experience of management in a clinical area
* Experience working with user led groups to enhance service delivery
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Applicants should contact one of the following key people to discuss the post in detail and if possible, arrange an informal visit:
Dr Rasha Al‑Qurainy, Clinical Lead, Email: rasha.al-qurainy@nhs.net
Dr Caroline Stirling, Consultant in Palliative Medicine Email: caroline.stirling@nhs.net
Nigel Dodds, Nurse Consultant in Palliative Medicine Email: nigeldodds@nhs.net
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