Locum Appointment for Training

**Locum Appointment for Training (LAT) in Palliative Medicine**

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.

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 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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‘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.’_
- NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category._

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