# Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine

**Company**: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, you will join one of England's best-performing and most highly rated NHS organisations, providing high-quality specialist care across two main hospital sites and a network of community-based services.

You will provide expert palliative and end-of-life care, collaborating closely with acute teams, community partners, and specialist services to support patients with complex symptom management and holistic needs.

The main duties of the job include:

- Providing an efficient and responsive clinical service for patients requiring supportive and palliative care

- Delivering high-quality specialist palliative care within hospital and community settings

- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to support patients and relatives across the palliative care pathway

- Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key colleagues across community and hospital services

- Participating in cross-clinical cover within other areas of the specialist palliative care service

- Contributing to strategic development and service improvement initiatives across the palliative care service

- Providing clinical leadership and guidance within the palliative care team

- Supporting education, training, and development opportunities for colleagues within the service

The person specification requires:

- Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) and licence to practise

- Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register for Palliative Medicine, or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview

- MBBS or equivalent primary medical qualification

- Substantial experience delivering specialist palliative care within hospital and/or community settings

- Experience of managing complex symptom control and end-of-life care for patients with advanced illness

- Excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills in palliative and supportive care

- Strong communication skills, including advanced communication with patients, families, and carers

The salary range is £113,565 to £150,569 per annum, pro rata.

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## Skills

### Required
- palliative care
- end-of-life care
- multidisciplinary team working
- complex symptom management
- communication skills

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