Overview

We have been assigned by one of the UK's more prestigious NHS Trusts to help them recruit a Consultant in Palliative Medicine on either a Substantive or an NHS Fixed Term basis for 12 months to join their successful Medicine department.

Our client are one of the largest providers of healthcare in the area and has a complement of over 930 beds for a local population of 390,000 and a regional population of 1.5 million. The Trust forms one of the major acute Trusts in the North West with all of the usual specialties on site as well as being a Tertiary Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in the departments of Neurosciences, Oncology, Renal Medicine, major trauma, plastics and burns, specialist mobility and rehabilitation and vascular services.

Our client's Palliative department is being created to support with the planned expansion of 7 day specialist palliative care services hospital and community local palliative care services across hospice, com...