About this role
Job summary
If you believe that how we care is just as important as what we do, this role offers a deeply meaningful opportunity to make a lasting difference.
Following new funding, we are expanding our team to further strengthen the support and continuity of care we provide to patients and their families. We're now inviting a dedicated Consultant to join our Specialist Palliative Care Team, serving across Hull Royal Infirmary, Castle Hill Hospital, and the wider community.
Our department is built on compassion, respect, and teamwork - values reflected in our remarkably low staff turnover, with colleagues who have individually served for over 14 and 17 years. This continuity speaks to the strong sense of belonging and purpose our team shares.
You'll be part of a multidisciplinary service comprising Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialists (Bands 6-7), and a dedicated administrator, supported by colleagues in chaplaincy, social work, psychology, pharmacy, pain management, and therapies. In 2024 alone, the service received 2,376 referrals, highlighting both the scale and trust placed in our team.
Main duties of the job
We understand that palliative care is as individual as the people who provide it. That's why we offer flexibility to shape your role around your interests and expertise. You may wish to:
Broaden your experience through rotation across hospital, community and hospice settings, or Deepen your expertise by focusing on a particular area of care - whether that's working in acute, community, or specialist services such as homelessness, prisons, or specific disease pathways. Whatever your path, you'll be supported within a compassionate, values-led environment that honours both patients and staff, while playing a vital role in:
Delivering high-quality, person-centred specialist palliative care in the community and/or hospital settings.
Strengthening partnerships across Hull and East Riding, helping to shape truly integrated care for those with complex needs About You We are looking for a compassionate, collaborative clinician who brings clinical excellence and emotional intelligence in equal measure. If you take pride in the privilege of supporting patients and families through some of life's most significant and challenging moments, and value being part of a team that does the same, then this role offers you the opportunity to contribute to a service defined by empathy, expertise, and integrity - and to help shape the future of palliative and end of life care within a deeply committed team.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description Job responsibilities
For more information on this advertised role, please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training Essential
oMB BS or equivalent qualification oMRCP(UK) or equivalent qualification
Desirable
oPostgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD oPostgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
Professional Registration Essential
oGMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months) oFull Registration with the GMC
Clinical Experience Essential
oAbility to offer an expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both elective and emergency within specialty oAbility to take full & independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Desirable
oOncology experience in addition to that required to fulfil specialist training oExperience with end stage organ failure in addition the that required to fulfil specialist training oExperience of working in primary care
Management and Administration Experience Essential
oDemonstrable leadership & managerial skills oAbility to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist services oAbility to organise and manage patient priorities oAbility to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate
Desirable
oAbility to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery oExperience of audit management
Personal Attributes Essential
oAbility to work flexibly in a changing health service oExcellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears oAbility to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable
oAbility to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
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).
Employer details Employer name Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Castle Hill Hospital
Cottingham
HU16 5JQ
Employer's website https://www.hey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)