Consultant in Palliative Medicine
Closing date: 21 June 2026
Job summary
Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team (6.5 PA permanent)
We are seeking a substantive community consultant in Palliative Medicine for the South Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team. This post sits within the Camden, Islington and UCLH Palliative Care Service. Doctors on the specialist register for SPC or due to CCT within 6 months are welcome to apply. There are on call duties aligned to this post.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical care to patients and those important to them within South Camden and Islington, including visiting patients alone or jointly in their place of residence and providing telephone advice to other team members and professionals.
- Conduct regular caseload reviews with the Clinical Nurse/Paramedic Specialists.
- Work closely with all team colleagues, including wider service staff and the Trust, and liaise with community professionals such as GPs, Community Nursing and other specialist teams.
- Provide clinical cross cover for SPC consultants in the service who work in UCLH as needed.
- Work closely with the clinical lead for the service Dr Rasha Al‑Qurainy and the leads for the community team.
- Represent Palliative Care at relevant clinical and strategic meetings (e.g. NCL Specialist Palliative Care provider group, PallE8, GP Multidisciplinary meetings, Camden cross‑community meetings).
- Attend and contribute to the community specialist palliative care MDT meeting each week.
- Provide clinical supervision and educational supervision to trainees working within the team, and offer educational support and teaching to nursing staff undertaking advanced practice.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Primary Medical Degree
- Approved Clinician status
- Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practice
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Palliative Medicine through CCT, Portfolio Pathway (CESR), REQ, or RSQ routes
Desirable
- An additional postgraduate qualification of relevance to the work
Personal Skills & Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication and empathic skills
- The highest ethical and professional standards
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to both lead and be led as part of a team
- Be skilled at encouraging and giving feedback
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Enthusiasm to work within a changing environment
Experience, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent skills in specialist palliative care
- Proven ability to efficiently manage patients with complex physical, psychological, spiritual and social problems and to respond sensitively to the needs of carers
- Proven ability to work well within a multidisciplinary team and support others to flourish
- Proven ability to lead clinical care across professional and organisational boundaries
- Ability to work with sensitivity within a multicultural society
- An understanding of the principles and practical applications of clinical governance systems, education, quality improvement
- Understanding of the drivers influencing NHS and commercial health care providers and current and proposed national organisational changes
- Ability and commitment to teach in a clinical and academic setting
- Ability to design effective teaching
- Ability and commitment to teaching various clinical disciplines
- Ability to act as a consistent reference point in a team and to take a leadership role
- Ability to prioritise workload, to delegate responsibilities as appropriate
Desirable
- Ability to support advanced practitioners from other professional groups develop new skills
- Higher qualification in medical education
- Completed training to be a clinical and or educational supervisor
- Proven experience of management in a clinical area
- Experience working with user led groups to enhance service delivery
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary to submit a Disclosure and Barring Service check to verify 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team Service
Ground Floor, South Wing St
4 St Pancras Way
NW1 0PE
United Kingdom
Employer’s website
https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
£113,565 to £150,569 a year (pro‑rata)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part‑time
Reference number
333-G-PC-C-0010
Job locations
Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team Service
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