Consultant - Palliative Care

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in the Teesside area seeks an experienced Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join an integrated service spanning hospital, community and hospice settings. The post includes a minimum average of 1.5 hospice sessions per week at Butterwick Hospice in Stockton or Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool.

The appointee will work within a multi-site consultant group, participate in ward rounds and reviews, and support the palliative care team and wider

Job description

The successful candidate willbe expected towork as part of North Tees and Hartlepool (NTUH) fully integrated Palliative Care team across hospital community and hospice settings as required. This post will involve a minimum of 1.5 sessions per week of regular hospice clinical work. This maybe in either one of two local hospices:Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool or Butterwick Hospice in Stockton (9 and 8 bedded adult inpatient units respectively). Hospital and community clinical work will involve face to face and non-face to face patient reviews, as well as advising and supporting the palliative care team and wider healthcare teams with clinical management of patients. On call duties are in the mainstay non-resident, taking advice calls from hospital, community and hospice settings, as part of University Hospital Tees (UHT) wide consultant rota. There is an expectation that consultants will attend to review patients face to face in a hospice setting out of hours if required to support a doctor in training in exceptional circumstances. Consultants on call are expected to be within 2 hours travel time from the hospices covered on call (located in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton). The successful candidate will be welcomed to join our dynamic integrated palliative care service at North Tees and Hartlepool (NTH) providing input into community, hospital and hospice settings. Base and clinical settings primarily based with the North Tees and Hartlepool integrated palliative care team at the University Hospital of North Tees.

• Expected to work flexibly across hospital, community and hospice settings according to clinical need.
• A minimum average of 1.5 sessions per week in a hospice is an essential requirement of the post.
• Regular hospice work will be undertaken at either Butterwick Hospice, Stockton or Alice House Hospice, Hartlepool.
  Butterwick Hospice is immediately adjacent to the University Hospital of North Tees. Alice House Hospice is located a 25-minute drive away in Hartlepool and includes a satellite office for the hospital and community team within.

Consultant team The appointee joins a wider group of 10 Palliative Medicine consultants across University Hospitals Tees (a geographical area that covers: North Tees and Hartepool; Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland; and Hambleton and Richmondshire). North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations. At UHT our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience. We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.