Specialty Doctor - Palliative Care

Katharine House Hospice

The closing date is 13 May 2024

Job summary

Katharine House Hospice is a registered charity with an 8-bedded In-Patient unit, a Therapies and Wellbeing Unit with outpatient services, a Hospice at Home Service, and a Lymphoedema Clinic. We are looking to recruit a doctor(s) to provide day to day medical care, in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team, to patients and their carers for all clinical services within Katharine House Hospice.

Katharine House Hospice has a management and multi-disciplinary team wholly committed to providing the best quality care to those members of our local community with life-limiting illnesses. The ethos and general atmosphere of the organisation is reflected by the feedback we receive from both the Care Quality Commission reports and from our patients and their families.

Katharine House Hospice is keen to promote palliative medicine in the wider community and is involved in undergraduate medical education to students from both Keele and Birmingham Universities and also offers educational support to junior doctors at the University Hospital of North Midlands. We have an active audit programme and are planning to develop research projects.

The successful applicant(s) must have full GMC registration and medical indemnity cover, and experience of working in palliative medicine is desirable but not essential. An enhanced DBS check is also required.

Main duties of the job

To review daily and manage the medical care of the existing patients in the Inpatient Unit,
To admit new patients to the Inpatient Unit jointly with the nursing staff
To review patients in the Therapies and Wellbeing Unit when needed
To liaise with GPs, consultants and wider clinical MDT regarding patient care
To undertake patient-related administration such as discharge letters and referrals as required
To liase with the Medical Examiner to complete death certificates, complete cremation forms and liaise with the Coroner when needed
To participate in under-graduate medical student teaching, junior doctor training, and in-house teaching ward rounds
To take part in clinical governance within the hospice and contribute to the senior clinicians team of staff involved in clinical project work

About us

We help local adults with complex, progressive illnesses from diagnosis to the end of life through free, high quality, specialist palliative care, advice and guidance, and we support those close to them

Date posted

26 April 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£72,656.79 a year Up to £72,656.79 pa, pro rata (£90,821 pa, fte)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0074-HSD01

Job locations

Weston Road

Stafford

ST16 3SB

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide day to day medical care, in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team, to patients and their carers for all clinical services within Katharine House Hospice. Including:

a. Joint admission of patients to the inpatient unit with the nursing team

b. All aspects of clinical care whilst on the inpatient unit

c. Liaise with patients general practitioner and consultant(s) regarding their previous and on-going medical care

d. Undertake patient-related administration to ensure successful discharge e.g. discharge letters, advance care planning documents and take home medications and community authorisations.

2. Attend daily multi-disciplinary team patient handover meetings.

3. To participate in research/evaluation, clinical governance and audit activities that contribute to the development of evidence-based practice and high standards of clinical care. To attend senior clinicians meetings.

4. Contribute to teaching and training sessions, both formal and informal, which aid the development of clinical knowledge within the multi-disciplinary team. To assist in teaching of medical students and doctors in training as required.

5. As required, attend and contribute to the weekly whole hospice multi-disciplinary team review of patients.

6. Develop and maintain communication with other agencies involved in the provision of palliative care to patients and their carers thereby contributing to the delivery of co-ordinated and appropriate care for individuals referred to the hospice.

7. To liase with the Medical Examiner to complete death certificates and, as necessary, complete cremation forms and liaise with the Coroner.

8. Work with senior nursing staff to ensure that hospice referrals are managed appropriately and sensitively.

9. To participate in the annual appraisal process.

10. Complete mandatory training as required