Job Description

Specialty Doctor / Clinical Fellow in Palliative Medicine

(Permanent post - part time / Fixed-term post)

This is an exciting opportunity for the right doctor to join our skilled, dynamic team in providing palliative care to patients with life limiting illnesses. The post will be based at Compton Care and you will primarily care for patients on the Inpatient Unit and those attending our Living Well Centre. There may also be opportunity to work within our community service. You will work as part of the medical team with dedicated consultants and a highly motivated multidisciplinary team.


Compton Care has an 18 bedded inpatient unit, an extensive community service (planned care, rapid response, virtual ward), day therapies, counselling & bereavement, and a lymphoedema service. We aim to provide first class palliative care to all who need it, wherever they are.


Education is a priority and there is a proactive Learning & Development department. We are research active with a research group that supports both individual and collaborative projects. There are ample opportunities to develop your interest in the specialty through regular medical educational sessions, teaching consultant ward rounds and inbuilt CPD time.


Applicants for the Specialty Doctor role (3 days/week) must have at least 3 years experience post registration. Doctors with less experience but who have completed the foundation programme will be considered for a fixed term Clinical Fellow post (4 days/week). Additional hours may be possible. You will be required to participate in the 1:5 on-call rota.

For an informal discussion please contact Dr Fran Hakkak (Medical Director) on 01902 774519

Please note that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.


This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an enhanced submission for disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.