Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the St Elizabeth Hospice Great Yarmouth and Waveney Consultant Palliative Care team for 10 months as a locum consultant. You will join a dynamic, friendly and established team of medical and nurse consultants and the wider multidisciplinary team. Your post will provide input predominantly to the James Paget Hospital but with some community and occasional inpatient unit cover at Beccles hospital. You will join at a very exciting time in the region as new services are designed and implemented. St Elizabeth Hospice is rated CQC outstanding and provides services in a large geographical area, offering urban and rural diversity and places of outstanding natural beauty. This coastal area of the country supports a good work-life balance and is easily accessible to London and beyond. There are strong links between local acute and palliative care providers and with medical schools in the Universities of East Anglia and Cambridge. Teaching opportunities
abound., A locum Consultant post is available due to maternity leave. After 35 years of delivering excellent care, St Elizabeth Hospice continues to drive forward innovation and development of services. Consultants in the team are involved in research and committed to the continual improvement of clinical care. You will have the opportunity to experience the design and early build stages of a brand new hospice in the locality, and work in an acute hospital that is also undergoing a new hospital build program. The hospital sessions are provided as in-reach, supporting the JPUH multidisciplinary Palliative Care Team. The working relationship between the two organisations is well established clinically and there is excellent communication and cross setting working across acute, community and hospice inpatient settings.

The successful candidate will commence June 2026 until March 2027. You will be employed by St Elizabeth hospice, supported by NHS Terms and Conditions. Eight sessions are available plus out of hours responsibility. There is flexibility around how the job plan is delivered; interested candidates are strongly encouraged to approach us for discussion.

St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.

The hospice offers a generous benefit package, including:

27 days annual leave entitlement

Pension scheme

Life Cover

Cycle to Work Scheme

Car Leasing Scheme

Health Service Discounts

Occupational Sick Pay

Blue Light Card

Employee Assistance Programme