Specialist Doctor

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will be a part of the Hospice Medical and Pharmacy Team, which is led by the Medical Director.

The Hospice medical team provides specialist palliative medical care to patients on the Hospice Inpatient unit, in outpatients and during domiciliary visits. The Hospice medical team also provided medical advice and oversight to the Herts Community Trust specialist palliative care CNS team.

The successful applicant will be invited to join the Hospice first on call rota, providing non resident on call cover.

Fitting with the Hospices strong ethos of supporting training and education, the Hospice has a training slot for a Specialty Trainee in Palliative Medicine and GP Trainees, with the successful applicant being one of the Hospice Clinical Supervisors.

The successful applicant will be provided with shared office space, a computer, internet access and secretarial support.

Garden House Hospice Care acknowledges the importance of mentoring, and the successful applicant will be supported to have a mentor if desired.

An applicant who is unable to undertake the duties of a whole-time post will receive equal consideration. If such an applicant is appointed, the job content will be modified appropriately to support less than full time working.

Please see the attached the comprehensive Job Description & Person Specification.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Practices with professional values and behaviours as per the GMC standards in Good Medical Practice
• Comprehensive clinical experience in palliative medicine in a range of clinical settings, including hospice and community
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care and formulation of evidence based, individualised management plans and ongoing review of patients
• Able to manage complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients, including having the expertise to function at the level of a senior, independent practitioner
• High level of communication skills with an empathetic, caring approach to patients and families, including skills to communicate with patients experiencing communication difficulties of any kind
• Ability to share decision making with patients, relatives and carers, to treat patients as individuals and promote a person-centred approach to their care
• Respect patients dignity and ensure confidentiality
• Ability to make complex ethical decisions including withdrawal and withholding of treatments

Desirable

• Attendance at Advanced Communication Skills course or communications skills qualification

Personal Skills

Essential

• Personal skillsAble to critically appraise own performance and that of colleagues, peers or systems to enhance performance and support development
• Able to understand own limits, seek help with required and be receptive to appropriate challenge
• Able to develop practice responding to changing population or service user needs and engage in horizon scanning for future developments or needs
• Able to cope with and effectively organise the workload of a specialist doctor
• Ability and drive to use information and experience to improve the clinical service; ability to adapt and respond to changing circumstances to improve patient care
• Self-awareness and ability to accept and learn from feedback
• Commitment to maintaining professional skills and knowledge relevant to the job, including all required statutory and mandatory training
• Familiarity with standard office packages and use of IT based technology and willingness to learn new IT skills according to needFormal management training

Desirable

• Formal management training

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC registration with licence to practice
• Minimum of 12 years medical work since obtaining a primary medical qualification, of which a minimum of 6 years should have been in palliative medicine

Desirable

• MRCP
• Postgraduate qualifications in palliative medicine qualification such as the Palliative Medicine Specialty Certificate Examination or MSc, Certificate of Diploma in Palliative Medicine

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Garden House Hospice Care

Address

Gillison Close

Letchworth Garden City

Hertfordshire

SG6 1QU

Employer's website

https://www.ghhospicecare.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)