Specialty Doctor in Palliative Care

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinician to lead Palliative Medicine with a focus on day-to-day management of the Cynthia Spencer Hospice inpatient unit. The role offers experience in assessing and managing life-limiting illness within a multidisciplinary team.

The post involves symptom control, advanced communication, discharge planning, and active engagement in clinical governance and educational activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage inpatients at Cynthia Spencer Hospice and occasionally at Cransley Hospice
• Provide senior clinical responsibility when consultants are away
• Liaise with colleagues to cover consultant absences
• Manage hospice waiting lists and bed prioritisation
• Take referrals for hospice inpatient units in rotation with colleagues
• Support resident doctors during hospice rotations
• Participate in the first on-call rota for out-of-hours cover
• Engage in postgraduate education activities and clinical governance projects
• Participate in yearly appraisal process

Job description

This is an ideal opportunity for anyone with an interest in Palliative Medicine, either as a career or to support careers in General Practice, General Medicine, Oncology, Haematology or Care of the Elderly Medicine.

The job will involve day to day management of an inpatient hospice unit and will provide experience in the assessment and management of people with a life limiting illness and consequent complex care needs. The post holder will practise and enhance knowledge and skills relevant to holistic care including symptom control, advanced communication skills, advance care planning, discharge planning and working within a multi-disciplinary team.

• Management of inpatients at Cynthia Spencer Hospice, and at times at Cransley Hospice
• Assume appropriate senior clinical responsibility when consultants are away on annual and study leave or sick leave and liaise with the appropriate colleague providing consultant cover
• Management of hospice waiting list and bed prioritisation
• Taking referrals for the hospice inpatient units in rotation with specialty doctor and specialty registrar colleagues
• Support resident doctors during their hospice rotation
• Participate in 1st on call rota for out of hours medical cover
• Participate in postgraduate education activities in the department, which is one afternoon every 2 months
• Actively participate in the development and implementation of clinical governance in the Trust supported by the Clinical Governance Support Team/clinical audit programmes
• Participate in yearly appraisal process

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Sanjay Shah Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: [e-mail]