Consultant in Palliative Care

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom seeks a Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join a multidisciplinary team delivering expert care for inpatients and community patients. The post covers acute hospital work and community settings, with opportunities to develop subspecialty interests and engage in undergraduate and postgraduate education and research.

The successful candidate will work within the Medicine directorate, with four Consultants in Palliative Medicine and a

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCP (UK) or equivalent postgraduate qualification
• MD or PhD
• Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Medicine or related
• Entry on the GMC specialist register in Palliative Medicine or be eligible within six months of CCT
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise

Responsibilities

• Share responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Palliative Medicine department.
• Provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to hospital inpatients.
• Provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to patients in the community, with St Nicholas Hospice Care.
• Provide Palliative Medicine consultant input within the community through joint working with other specialties and providers.
• Develop and deliver palliative care education to health care professionals at all levels.
• Participate in the consultant telephone 2nd on-call rota across Suffolk and Great Yarmouth & Waveney.
• Contribute to planning and development of palliative care services area-wide and across the ICB.
• Participate in Clinical Governance and audit and maintain continuing medical education, appraisal and revalidation.

Skills

Palliative care expertise

On-call management

Education & training

Clinical governance

Education

MBBS or equivalent

MRCP (UK) or equivalent

MD or PhD

Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Medicine or related

GMC specialist registration or eligibility

Full GMC registration

Job description

This is a replacement, permanent 8PA post which presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high quality, patient centered service in a supportive multidisciplinary team.

The post will cover both acute hospital inpatient work and work within community settings, ensuring patients can be seen and supported where ever they are.

The role involves delivering expert clinical care, providing specialist advice to healthcare professionals, participating in the on-call rota, and supporting the development of innovative services that enable patients to receive care closer to home.

The successful candidate will join a team of consultants in Palliative medicine supported by nurse specialists in both acute and community settings. There are opportunities to develop sub specialty interest where this contributes to and complements the department and Trusts' service needs. There are undergraduate & postgraduate education and research opportunities available.

Main duties of the job

To share with colleagues' responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Palliative Medicine department.

To provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to hospital inpatients in West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

To provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to patients in the community, in conjunction with colleagues at St Nicholas Hospice Care

To provide Palliative Medicine consultant input within the community through joint working with other specialties and other providers

To develop and deliver palliative care education to health care professionals at all levels

To participate in the consultant telephone 2nd on call rota across Suffolk and Great Yarmouth & Waveney

To contribute to the planning and further development of palliative care services in the area and across the ICB

To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit

To fulfill obligations relating to continuing medical education, professional development, appraisal and revalidation and to keep up to date with new developments in the field of palliative medicine.

Please see Job Description for full vacancy details

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone's voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within the Medicine directorate, with managerial responsibility to the Clinical Director. This post is a replacement.

There are currently four Consultants in Palliative Medicine (3.4 WTE) working within West Suffolk, supporting patients in the hospital, hospice and community.

The hospital palliative care team support over 1200 patients a year. The team is currently staffed by 5.7 WTE CNSs, with a Band 8a Team Lead/Practice Development Nurse.

The hospital team has close links with the chaplaincy team, the Acute Oncology Team, the discharge planning team and other specialities such as Oncology, Haematology, Frailty, Cardiology and Renal.

The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. The Trust will give you reasonable notice, where possible, of temporary changes to your days or hours of work and will consult with you and/or your staff representatives about substantial permanent changes, but ultimately, these are changes which may be required of you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Entry on the GMC specialist register in Palliative Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Training) at the time of interview and hold a licence to practice.
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise
• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCP (UK) or an equivalent postgraduate qualification
• MD or PhD
• Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Medicine or a related subject

Knowledge and Skills

• Completion of approved JRCPTB curriculum in Palliative medicine or evidence of equivalent knowledge,
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of palliative medicine problems.
• Awareness of current speciality specific clinical evidence, developments and guidelines
• Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
• Completion of advanced communication skills training
• All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: oPLAB 1 oPLAB 2 However, if applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.

Experience

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Palliative medicine
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Experience of managing patients with palliative care needs in inpatient, outpatient and community settings
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Palliative Medicine issues

Teaching and Training

• Experience of supervising resident doctors and advanced practitioners
• Experience of workplace- based assessment
• Experience in delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Postgraduate teaching qualification
• Experience of organising and delivering medical or multiprofessional teaching programmes

Management and Audit Training

• Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g.in-patient priorities
• Ability to contribute to strategic developments in service delivery
• Experience of audit and quality improvement frameworks
• Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
• Understanding of current NHS environment, particularly in relation to palliative and end of life care
• Experience of Leadership roles

Research and Publications

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• Publications in peer reviewed journals
• Ability to supervise research projects
• Experience of taking part in a research project

Personal Skills and Qualities

• Commitment to working well within a multi-professional clinical team
• Ability to deal effectively with pressure
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
• Positive approach to job planning and appraisal process

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

Palliative Medicine Consultant- Clinical Lead

£113,565 to £150,569 a yearPro Rata Per Annum