Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine

The closing date is 30 May 2025

Job summary

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

Post: Consultant in Plliative Care Medicine

MCEC Division

Contract: Permanent

Main duties of the job

Job Summary

This post is in addition to 0.6 WTE Consultant

This is a replacement post, replacing a retiring consultant. The team currently consists of 2.0 WTE substantive Consultants. The appointee will not be on the on call rota for general medicine.

Breakdown of PAs: Clinics (3 PA's), Admin (1 PA), IP Diabetes (1 PA), 2 Ward Rounds (2.50 PA's), SPA (1.5 PA's) On-call: Additional 1 PA to cover GIM on-call rota at 1 in 16, with clinical commitment cancelled or covered by another colleagues when doing PTWR's.

About us

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (DGT) is a dynamic and transforming Trust, committed to delivering the highest quality service to the communities it serves. DGT is an organisation that is genuinely committed to making you feel valued and important by supporting your physical and mental wellbeing, your career development and your general enjoyment of work.

There is an excellent Postgraduate Centre at Darent Valley Hospital. This provides lecture and tutorial rooms and a dining room. Numerous meetings for Hospital Doctors and General Practitioners are held at the centre. There are regular educational sessions and meetings covering Case Presentation, Journal club, Histopathology joint meetings, General, Urological and Vascular X-ray meetings and Mammography Meetings.

We committed to the concepts of equality and diversity. You are required to fulfil your responsibilities under this policy and to ensure that no individual receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, religion, creed, colour, race, ethnic or national origin, HIV status, age, social background, trade union membership or non-membership and is not placed at a disadvantage by requirements or conditions which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Details

Date posted

09 May 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

252-2025-020

Job locations

Darent Valley Hospital

Darent wood road

Dartford

DA2 8DA


Job description

Job responsibilities

A formal Job Plan will be agreed between the appointee and their Clinical Director, on behalf of the Medical Director, within three months after the commencement date of the appointee. This will be signed by the Clinical Director and will be effective from the commencement date of the appointment. The Job Plan for the first three months will be agreed between you and the Directorate. The Job Plan will then be reviewed annually, following the Appraisal Meeting. The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a Consultants duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A formal Job Plan will be agreed between the appointee and their Clinical Director, on behalf of the Medical Director, within three months after the commencement date of the appointee. This will be signed by the Clinical Director and will be effective from the commencement date of the appointment. The Job Plan for the first three months will be agreed between you and the Directorate. The Job Plan will then be reviewed annually, following the Appraisal Meeting. The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a Consultants duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oFull GMC Registration
  • oMBBS or equivalent
  • oHolds CCT or equivalent or will obtain within 6 months of interview date in Palliative Care and/or general internal medicine.

Desirable

  • Other degrees, e.g. BSc MSc, MD, PhD..

Knowledge

Essential

  • oClinical Governance principles
  • oAwareness of current General Medical practices

Experience

Essential

  • oWide experience in General internal Medicine and Diabetes and Endocrinology
  • oFull and independent management of clinical patient workload
  • oExperience of teaching doctors-in training and undergraduates
  • oExperience of clinical audit
  • oExperience of collaborative clinical or laboratory research.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oFull GMC Registration
  • oMBBS or equivalent
  • oHolds CCT or equivalent or will obtain within 6 months of interview date in Palliative Care and/or general internal medicine.

Desirable

  • Other degrees, e.g. BSc MSc, MD, PhD..

Knowledge

Essential

  • oClinical Governance principles
  • oAwareness of current General Medical practices

Experience

Essential

  • oWide experience in General internal Medicine and Diabetes and Endocrinology
  • oFull and independent management of clinical patient workload
  • oExperience of teaching doctors-in training and undergraduates
  • oExperience of clinical audit
  • oExperience of collaborative clinical or laboratory research.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for 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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for 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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

Address

Darent Valley Hospital

Darent wood road

Dartford

DA2 8DA


Employer's website

https://www.dgt.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

Address

Darent Valley Hospital

Darent wood road

Dartford

DA2 8DA


Employer's website

https://www.dgt.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Director

Dr Rupinder Gill

rupinder.gill4@nhs.net

01322421000

Details

Date posted

09 May 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

252-2025-020

Job locations

Darent Valley Hospital

Darent wood road

Dartford

DA2 8DA


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