Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Specialty Doctor in Palliative Medicine
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Job Opportunity at Saint Francis Hospice
Saint Francis Hospice is seeking to recruit a doctor with a special interest in palliative medicine for a full-time, fixed-term (4 months) Specialty Doctor/Clinical Fellow post (grade and pay dependent on experience). The post runs from 07.10.2026. The post fills a fallow post due to a Registrar gap. The contract will be an NHS contract, held by BHRUT (the local hospital trust) but will be fully seconded to the hospice.
About the Role
This post is ideal for a doctor with an interest in palliative care, seeking to gain hospice experience towards application to a Specialist Palliative Care training rotation or seeking to consolidate/expand their palliative care knowledge and skills.
Requirements
Applicants must have completed their foundation years’ training, with, ideally (but not exclusively) an additional 2 years + experience in relevant clinical practice (the additional 2 years + enabling eligibility for Specialty Doctor status).
About Us
Our hospice is 4 miles from Romford station, in beautiful countryside on the London-Essex border. We have 18 specialist palliative care beds and a busy community service, which includes a 24/7 helpline, Community CNS, medical and wide MDT visiting services.
We see and support people with complex problems related to both advanced malignant and non-malignant conditions, frequently with multi-morbidity.
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We serve the population of Outer East London (Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham, Havering), near West Essex and Brentwood. Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is our local hospital Trust.
We are a regional education centre, experienced in supporting doctors and others in training.
The post holder will join a medical team of 2.4WTE Consultants, 1.6WTE Specialty Doctors and 2.4WTE GP trainees. The post holder will provide middle-grade support to the hospice ward, with opportunity for community visiting dependant on experience. Development and career progression will be supported in line with the applicant’s level of training/personal development goals.
There is an on-call requirement, which involves weekend daytime ward rounds and admissions, with non-resident low-intensity night cover. Postholders must be able to attend the hospice within 1 hour during non-resident on-call periods.
Conditions of service and salary are as per national medical and dental terms and conditions of service. Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
Our Commitment
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
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We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sarah Rust
- Job title: Medical Staffing Coordinator
- Email address: s.rust@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01708435000
- Ext: 2078
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