Job overview

 The hospital specialist palliative care team works across the hospital sites at both Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, working alongside a number of specialities as an advisory service. The Palliative Care Department has an office base at The Queen’s Centre, Castle Hill Hospital and another at Hull Royal Infirmary. In 2024, the team received 2376 referrals. The team comprises of Consultants in Palliative Medicine, a Speciality Doctor & Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialists in Palliative Care – three Band 7 (2.5 WTE), five band 6 CNS (WTE 4.6), a team administrator co-ordinator (35 hours per week) and a Speciality Doctor (1WTE). The multi-disciplinary team is supported by the chaplaincy service, Macmillan social workers, Cancer Psychological Service, pain management anaesthetist with an interest in cancer pain, pharmacy and therapies. The Macmillan hospital specialist palliative care nursing team provides 7-day cover across all the Hull hospitals. The team offer face-to-face assessments for inpatients as well as supporting families, carers and ward teams. There are board rounds three times a week within the hospital to discuss all new patients and those with complex needs and we participate in other monthly specialist MDTs including the heart failure MDT.

Main duties of the job

Two posts are open for applications with a focus on developing the integration of community specialist palliative care services in both Hull and East Riding localities with community services and specialist palliative care partners. The opportunity has arisen from vacancy arising from a previous post and additional innovations in delivery of community services. The specific posts can be tailored to suit a successful candidate’s interests and the job plans are offered as examples. There are opportunities to develop individual interests in specific disease types, or collaboration with partners providing care to particular groups (for example homelessness team, prison). Candidates are strongly encouraged to contact the team and discuss their personal areas of interest and expertise.

The post would suit a good team player dedicated to high quality patient care. The primary focus will be on providing specialist palliative care input in the community but there is the opportunity to also have sessions (to be agreed within the consultant team) within either the acute hospital or Dove House Hospice.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.