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Clinical Fellow in Palliative Medicine:

Salary: £45504 - £71550 per annum pro-rata (dependent on experience) plus additional on call supplements

Hours: 9.5 PAs per week (4 days), plus on call

St Columba's exists to give everyone who needs it the very best hospice care. We're an independent charity at the heart of our local community, offering free, flexible and person-centred palliative care and support to our patients and their families.

Applications are invited for a clinical fellow post, available from the beginning of August 2025.

You will work for 4 weekdays (9-5), with some late weekday finishes (6pm) and work at weekends (currently 1 in 10 Saturday/Sundays 9am-3pm) covering the inpatient unit and the virtual ward. You will also participate in the first on call rota, with additional weekend on call (up to 3 weekends per year) and some overnight weeknight on call (currently one night every 5 weeks).

You will bring enthusiasm, excellent communication skills and teamworking abilities to the wider multidisciplinary clinical team. You will be largely inpatient based but work in the community setting is possible depending on needs and experience.

Experience in Palliative Medicine is desirable but not essential and applicants must have full registration with the General Medical Council, with a current licence to practise.

TO APPLY:

For more information including an application form and job description, click the 'Apply' button above to visit our Hospice website. We welcome enquiries about our vacancies. For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dr Duncan Brown, Dr Barry Laird or Dr Tony Duffy, using the contact details on our website.

MORE INFORMATION:

This post requires the post holder to have a criminal records check at a PVG scheme record update level. An application will be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post. A joint application will be made which the Hospice will pay for.

St Columba's Hospice Care is an independent Scottish Charity, SC003634, regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). Scotland’s first modern hospice, it first opened its doors in 1977. Over the years it has grown and evolved into an exemplary provider of specialist palliative care for thousands of people with life-limiting illnesses in Edinburgh and the Lothians annually, while also providing support to their relatives and loved ones. 

The Hospice offers competitive rates of pay, generous pension contributions, annual leave allowance and occupational sick pay entitlements that increase with length of service at St Columba's Hospice, and a supportive and rewarding place to work, with our own on-site education and research team - we're an Investor in People organisation! For a full summary of terms and conditions of employment please click on to our website using the Apply refer to the vacancy pack for the role you are interested in.