About this role
Job summary
7 PAs, comprising 5DCC & 2SPA | 1 in 10 Leeds-wide second on-call rota | 3% on-call supplement
To apply for this role please apply via our website:www.st-gemma.co.uk/about-us/join-our-team/
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join our experienced medical and multidisciplinary team at St Gemma's Hospice in Leeds. This is an opportunity to combine expert clinical practice with education, service development and clinical leadership across the city and within one of the UK's leading specialist palliative care providers.
About us
About St Gemmas Hospice
St Gemmas Hospice is an independent charity and one of the UKs leading hospices. Since opening in Moortown, Leeds in 1978, we have provided expert palliative and end of life care to people with life-limiting and terminal illnesses, as well as support for their families and carers.
Why St.Gemma's? Founded in 1978, St Gemmas Hospice is an independent Leeds charity providing specialist palliative care to people with advanced illness and complex needs, and support for the people important to them. Our work spans inpatient, community and outpatient care, alongside therapies, family support and bereavement services.
St Gemmas was the first hospice in the world to be recognised as a University Teaching Hospice. Our Academic Unit of Palliative Care, in partnership with the University of Leeds, brings together clinical care, education, research and the application of evidence to practice. That combination creates opportunities to contribute beyond individual patient encounters and help improve care across services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
About the role
As Consultant in Palliative Medicine at St.Gemmas, you will provide specialist consultant care for patients with complex palliative care needs, primarily within our inpatient unit. You will have clinical responsibility for a 10-bed ward, working alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team to deliver compassionate, person-centred care and support patients and those important to them through complex clinical decision-making.
Alongside your inpatient responsibilities, there will be opportunities to contribute to community and outpatient services through agreed consultant rotations, supporting patients in their own homes and collaborating with healthcare professionals across Leeds to provide coordinated specialist care.
The role includes a defined medical education portfolio through the Academic Unit of Palliative Care, offering opportunities to teach and support medical students, resident doctors and healthcare professionals, and contribute to the development of education programmes.
You'll work within a collaborative specialist palliative care community alongside consultant colleagues, specialist nurses, therapists and multidisciplinary teams across Leeds, with opportunities to influence the development of integrated palliative and end of life care across the city.
As we continue to develop our services, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to service improvement and the future direction of specialist palliative care in Leeds, while developing your own clinical and professional interests within an agreed job plan.
Participation in the Leeds-wide consultant second on-call rota forms part of the role, with a 1 in 10 second-on-call commitment across the city.
Benefits
We offer a competitive range of benefits with an emphasis on inclusion and staff well-being in a caring and friendly environment:
- Generous annual holiday entitlement starting at 28 days plus statutory Bank holidays (FTE). Your entitlement will incrementally increase over time, up to 34 days after 10 years service. You will also have the option to buy up to 5 days holiday each year, subject to terms.
- Free parking at the Hospice site, subject to availability.
- Subsidised food at the Hospices Bistro and free drinks for all staff.
- Enrolment onto St Gemmas Group Personal Pension Plan, which provides a 5% company pension contribution assuming employees contribute 3%. If you are currently a member of the NHS Pension Scheme and have contributed to the scheme within the last twelve months you are eligible to continue contributing to this scheme instead of St Gemmas Group Plan.
- Enhanced occupational pay for Family Leave, e.g. maternity and paternity pay.
- Health Assured employee assistance programme providing a wide range of wellbeing services for you and your immediate family.
- Learning and professional development. For our clinical teams, this is provided by our world-class Academic Unit of Palliative Care (AUPC).
- Various employee network groups that you can get involved with, e.g. our LGBTQ+ group, and our sustainability group for example.
Explore further
- St Gemmas Hospice www.st-gemma.co.uk
- Academic Unit of Palliative Care www.st-gemma.co.uk/education-and-training/academic-unit/
- Leeds Palliative Care Network www.leedspalliativecare.org.uk
- Living in Leeds www.leeds.ac.uk/university-jobs/doc/living-Leeds
- St Gemmas Quality Account 2025/26 www.st-gemma.co.uk/about-us/publication-documents/
The role profile, employee specification, and provisional job plan provide the detailed terms and requirements for this appointment. Specific arrangements will be confirmed through recruitment and job planning. Salaryas per the consultant pay scale.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Dr Hannah Zacharias at [email protected].
To apply for this role please apply via our website: www.st-gemma.co.uk/about-us/join-our-team/
Interviews will be held at the Hospice on December 10th 2026.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- See attached Employee Specification.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
St Gemma’s Hospice
Address
St Gemma's Hospice
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS17 6QD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.st-gemma.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)