Job overview
Applicants are invited to apply for a substantive full-time Specialty Doctor in Palliative Medicine post based at Sobell House in the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and Katharine House Hospice, Banbury. Less than full time applicants are also welcome, with the understanding that the associated on-call is a full time component, regardless of whether the role is taken as full or part time.
This post is suitable for a capable enthusiastic doctor with full GMC registration and an MRCP or MRCGP qualification or equivalent who is keen to join a dynamic team. The applicant should have experience in palliative medicine, primary care or other related specialties.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to work throughout the service – including in the specialist inpatient palliative care unit, the acute hospital, community, including Rapid Intervention for Palliative and End of Life Care (RIPEL), day services or clinics. The successful applicant will participate in the specialist on-call rota (on-call supplement applies).
Educational opportunities, equivalent to those afforded to doctors participating in recognised training schemes will be provided.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the