Consultant in Palliative Medicine

An opportunity has arisen tojoin the St Elizabeth Hospice Great Yarmouth and Waveney Consultant Palliative Care team. You will join a dynamic, friendly and established team of medical and nurse consultants and the wider multidisciplinary team. Your post will provide input predominantly to the James Paget University Hospital but with somecommunity and occasional inpatient unit cover at Beccles hospital. You will joinat a very exciting time in the region as new services are designed and implemented.

A new community hospice build for the area is at advanced stagesof development.

The successful candidate will commencein August 2026. You will be employed bySt Elizabeth Hospice, supported by NHS Terms and Conditions. Eight sessions are available plus out of hours responsibility. There is flexibility around how thejob plan is delivered; interested candidates are strongly encouraged to approach us for discussion.

Please note that job description is awaiting RCP approval.

A Consultant post is available due to reconfiguration of services and recent expansion of the team. After 35years of delivering excellent care, St Elizabeth Hospice continues to drive forward innovation and development of services. Consultants in the team are involved in research and committed to the continual improvement of clinical care. You will have the opportunity to experience the design and early buildstages of a brand new hospice in the locality, and work in an acute hospital that is also undergoing a new hospital build program.

The hospital sessions are provided as in-reach, supporting the JPUH multidisciplinary Palliative Care Team. The working relationship between the two organisations is well establishedclinically and there is excellent communication and cross setting working across acute, community and hospice inpatient settings.

Interview date: 18th March 2026

St Elizabeth Hospice is rated

CQC outstanding and provides services in a large geographical area, offeringurban and rural diversity and places of outstanding natural beauty. Thiscoastal area of the country supports a good work-life balance and is easily accessible to London and beyond. There are strong links between local acute andpalliative care providers and with medical schools in the Universities of East Anglia and Cambridge. Teaching opportunities abound.

StElizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults andyoung people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse,neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to arigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies inplace which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.

JOB SUMMARY

To work together withthe other palliative medicine consultants in the provision of medical services to patients of St Elizabeth Hospice, James Paget Hospital and East Coast Community Healthcare and to support staff.

To develop services and improve integrated working between local Palliative Care providers (Hospice, Hospital and in the wider community of the Integrated Care Systems).

This post has arisen following a readjustmentof posts following retirement and changes to team working patterns associated with expansion into the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Area. This post is 0.8 WTE. Termsand Conditions will be based on the current NHS Consultant Contract, (see Job Plans below) with the postholders contract held at the Hospice and there willbe an honorary contract with the James Paget Hospital and ECCH as required.

The new post holder will join a growing medical team who work collaboratively and supportively to cover services across the twoservice areas, and rotation of area of responsibility is usual.

Current consultant provision is 5.1 WTE (Hospice) of which 0.2 WTE supports Ipswich hospital alongside another 0.95 WTEconsultant. There will be cover from the other consultants for leave and…