Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is looking for a dynamic enthusiastic consultant to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team working predominantly supporting community services and Wakefield Hospice. This is a 9-month fixed term locum post covering for maternity leave. The successful candidate will work with the Trust Specialist Palliative Care Team to provide services across the Wakefield and Pontefract community as well as the inpatient unit at Wakefield Hospice.

It is expected that the successful candidate will take a key role in providing community services and there is flexibility in the existing consultant team to enable pursuit of the successful candidates personal areas of interest. The post holder will work in a team of 7 consultants and 16 clinical nurse specialists who provide cross cover and support across hospital and community palliative medicine services.

MYTT End of Life Care Services were rated as good in our last CQC visit. The multidisciplinary community team see approximately 1250 referrals per year. The post will involve working closely with a consultant colleague to provide consultant oversight of the Wakefield Hospice inpatient service which will be a maximum of 16 beds. Wakefield Hospice has approximately 250 admissions per annum.,

The main duties of the post will include:
Hospital:
Support for the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team with both joint and independent review of patients. Support for Gold Standards Framework meetings in primary care where appropriate. Community team MDT weekly Administrative duties, for which appropriate office space and secretarial support is provided Supporting Professional Activities in accordance with the Trust Framework, with at least a minimum of 1.5 SPAs included in the core 8 PA timetable.

Core SPA includes audit and governance. Additional SPA or DCC time may be commissioned in line with the skills of the successful candidate and changing requirements of the service. Hospice Twice weekly ward rounds of hospice inpatients Weekly MDT Clinical supervision for FY2/ IMT trainees at the hospice and specialist registrar on both sites if applicable and candidate has appropriate training.

Training can be supported in post. Office accommodation with secretarial support is provided. We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients.

Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.