Specialty Doctor in Palliative Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL

INPATIENT UNIT

1. To share in the provision of medical care for the inpatients, working closely with other members of the medical team. This will include contributing to the planning of admissions, clerking in of new patients, review of patients, construction of a management plan, planning of discharges and facilitating of advance care planning, with a key duty to support our more junior GP trainees in their day-to-day practice on the ward, and to contribute to the support of relatives and carers.
2. To attend and support daily ward handover meetings, provide specialty doctor led ward round inpatient review/support for the GP trainees who provide day to day care, and to participate in the Consultant Ward Round.
3. To be a core part of the Inpatient Unit Multi-Professional Team Meetings, working closely with the rest of the multi-professional team to achieve the best of care for patients.
4. To support good therapeutics practice, with a lead role in the weekly medicines review of all patients (the weekly therapeutics meeting)

COMMUNITY SUPPORT, IN THE OUTPATIENT UNIT AND AT HOME

1. Dependant on experience, to share in supporting the Specialist Community Crisis and Support Team of CNSs and other clinical specialists who provide front line support to people at home

ON-CALL DUTIES

1. On-calls consist of 1:4.5 weekends on-call (9am-5pm on site at standard rate, night cover non-resident low intensity), plus 1 in 5 weekday nights on call remunerated as standard rate until 7pm, then non-resident low intensity overnight.
2. You will have Friday as a rest/lieu day preceding the weekend and the Tuesday following the weekend as a rest/lieu day.
3. Must be able to attend the hospice within 1 hour during non-resident on-call periods.

IN SUPPORT OF THIS CLINICAL WORK

GENERAL DUTIES

1. To work in partnership with and liaise closely with our Referrals team, General Practitioners, relevant hospital teams and relevant community specialist teams, providing written communications when necessary.
2. To keep accurate, clear and up-to-date medical records, engaging with electronic palliative care systems.
3. To keep senior medical staff informed of any clinical or management issues requiring Consultant advice or review.

TEACHING

1. To support our junior (ST1, ST2) GP trainees with informal and bedside training/teaching and with tutorial teaching.
2. To contribute to the educational programmes provided by the hospice for other health professionals.
3. To support any healthcare professionals on placement at the hospice (e.g. Care of the Elderly clinicians, GP Registrars, medical students, nurses) to get the most out of their hospice visit

EDUCATIONAL/SERVICE IMPROVEMENT/AUDIT

1. To take an active part in identifying areas for service improvement or audit, supporting service improvement projects and audits in progress. Mentorship of more junior staff to develop their knowledge of audits, and completion of audit ideas.
2. To attend and contribute to relevant in-house educational meetings, including journal club.

To attend to your continuing professional development needs as agreed at appraisal with your Consultant supervisor for this post.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Ugonna Egbuziem, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5932.

Person Specification

Shortlisting Criteria

Essential

• Recognised basic medical degree
• Full GMC registration with license to practise
• Completion of UK Foundation Training OR evidence of competency equivalent to UK foundation training
• At least 2 years full-time equivalent post foundation years' experience in relevant areas (e.g. GP/Medicine/Oncology/Neuro/Care of Elderly/A&E)
• Shows commitment and recognises importance of ongoing CPD
• Willingness to participate in clinical audit
• Willing to engage in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Evidence of ability and willingness to work within a multicultural hospice and community
• Able to organize own learning time
• Excellent interpersonal skills and effective communication
• Reliability on honesty
• Flexible approach to working practice
• Ability to work in a multi-professional team
• Commitment to service development and helping the hospice to fulfil its goals
• Full driving license

Desirable

• MRCP / MRCGP / FRCP or equivalent qualification (at point of starting post)
• Other additional clinical qualifications or relevant higher degree, MSc, MD, PhD
• Completion of UK GP / CMT / Specialist Palliative Medicine training OR evidence of equivalent competencies
• Experience of working in specialist palliative care
• Evidence of dedication to developing a career in specialist palliative care
• Community experience
• Experience of clinical audit
• Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Palliative Care

BHRUT & Saint Francis Hospice

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)