Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site AUH Town Liverpool Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 20/01/2026 23:59

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WTE Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join an enthusiastic and committed team providing support to patients within Liverpool and South Sefton. We are seeking highly motivated, dynamic and enthusiastic individuals to support the development and delivery of our newly integrated services across the city.

The services across Liverpool have undergone complete transformation following the merger of Aintree and the Royal Liverpool hospitals, the transfer of clinical services from Woodlands Hospice into LUHFT, and the local re-modelling of palliative care services in 2020 to form the Integrated Mersey Palliative Care Team (IMPaCT).

IMPaCT provides a fully integrated holistic palliative care service across the city, in collaboration with our partners at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool and Woodlands Hospice, with a single point of access and referral into services for patients, carers and health care professionals.

The post holder will be employed by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and will primarily support the delivery of in-patient and ambulatory services based at Woodlands Hospice, including the new IMPaCT virtual ward.

Applicants are required to be on the Specialist Register and have their CCT in Palliative Medicine or be within six months of obtaining it by the interview date. Full Registration and Licensing with the GMC is essential.

The appointee, together with his or her colleagues will have a commitment to the provision of consultant medical cover within the Integrated Palliative Care medical team across the sites. The post includes 6 Programmed activities (PAs) and the main commitments of this post in the first year (subject to annualised job planning) are proposed as follows:

· support to the in-patient unit at Woodlands Hospice

· support to the ambulatory/ out-patient services within the IMPaCT North service based at Woodlands Hospice, including the virtual ward

The post holder will be expected to provide cross cover support to other services when required and undertake community visits where necessary to promote continuity of care for patients.

It is expected that the appointee will participate in the current second on call medical rota for weeknights (5pm – 9am) and weekends (5pm Friday to 9am Monday), covering the North Liverpool/ South Sefton locality, which includes the Woodlands hospice inpatient unit, the virtual ward, Aintree hospital and the 24-hour IMPaCT North advice line, currently on a 1:8 basis. This post has a commitment of 0.5PA (1.5hrs) per day at weekends to support the virtual ward remotely, with compensatory TOIL of 1PA to be taken the week after the on call.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over…