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Fixed Term Specialty Doctor in Palliative Medicine
St Andrew’s Hospice, Airdrie
Full time but less than full time applications would be welcomed.
An exceptional, enthusiastic and compassionate specialty doctor is required to join the dynamic and supportive team of Palliative Medicine specialists in NHS Lanarkshire for a one-year period from August 2023. The successful applicant will be based in the inpatient unit of St Andrew’s Hospice, but the agreed job plan will reflect their experience and interests. This post could provide excellent experience for those interested in a later application for higher specialist training. Taking part in a 1 in 5 on call rota is essential, paid with an availability supplement and additional programmed activities per week.
Applicants should have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a less than full time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a Specialty Training Programme or specialty registrar locum appointment for training (LAT): or shall have equivalent training, experience or competencies, either in the UK or overseas.
Experience of working within a specialist palliative care team with at least six months’ exposure to unselected medical receiving is desirable.
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Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Kerry McWilliams at kerry.mcwilliams@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk or Dr Fiona McMunnigall at fiona.mcmunnigall@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For any application queries, please contact Lynn Cliens, HR Assistant on 01698 754351 Medical.dentalSAS@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Interviews are scheduled for: Date TBC
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
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