Locum Appointment for Training (LAT) in Palliative Medicine
This LAT post will give the successful candidate an opportunity for experience in Specialist Palliative Care and is available for a period of 12 months from August 2023.
Main duties of the post will be the care of inpatients at either St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie or Kilbryde hospice in East Kilbride, as part of the medical and multidisciplinary team.
Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Kerry McWilliams [email protected].
A LAT appointment is recognised for training purposes. The decision to award training recognition to any given post has to be determined by the interview panel based on an assessment of the applicant’s experience.
NHS Lanarkshire is constantly reviewing its rotas to maintain New Deal compliance together with the new arrangements as set down by the Scottish Government and Scottish Medical Training (SMT). Rotas therefore, may be subject to change.
NHS Lanarkshire has excellent post-graduate libraries and IT facilities. Active post-graduate educational programmes are in place, including dedicated protected teaching sessions for junior doctors.
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For any application queries, please contact Gill Swinburne on 01698 754352 or via [email protected]
‘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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