We are currently looking for a new Lead Consultant – Palliative Care to join our Hospice team. The post holder will provide specialist palliative care medical support to patients within the Inpatient Unit, Day Services and in the Community.
The post-holder will act as 8a Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine at St John’s Hospice for the In-patient unit, with a view to recruiting to a substantive post, and have clinical responsibility for patients accepted by the Inpatient Unit at St John’s Hospice, as well as providing cover for the Consultant in Palliative Medicine responsible for the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team and Day Care Unit at St John’s Hospice.
We would welcome any informal discussions about the post. Please contact Sue Hutton, Assistant Director of Nursing, Hospice on 020 7806 4038/ sue.hutton@hje.org.uk a to arrange this.
Applicants should be within 6 months of obtaining their CCT, or be list on the GMC Specialist Register for Palliative Medicine. We would also consider less than full time applicants.
This post would be a locum for 12 months in the first instance with view to a substantive post.
St John’s Hospice provides a wide range of specialist palliative care and lymphoedema services to patients from seven NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups. The Hospice compromises an 18 bedded inpatient unit, day service, community specialist palliative care service, hospice@home service, lymphoedema service and bereavement service.
In total, the hospice supports approximately 1,500 direct beneficiaries each year and when support to friend and family members is included, the hospice reaches over 4,000 patients and family members each year.
What will I do as Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine?
- Work as part of a team of consultants, providing specialist palliative care to patients predominantly in the hospice in-patient unit. The post will also require occasional palliative care reviews of hospital patients, in addition to cross-covering the community and the day care services to ensure adequate clinical cover for the service is maintained when colleagues are on leave.
- Take responsibility for patients under his/her care and will undertake clinical duties associated with care of patients and the running of the clinical departments.
- Work collaboratively with all other team members and provide clinical support to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Lead a twice weekly Consultant ward round.
- Attend the weekly in-patient MDT meeting and take responsibility for decisions about patients.
- Agree and arrange safe admissions and discharges of patients to and from the Hospice in line with local policy.
- Ensure that comprehensive plans are made and recorded for each in-patient prior to the weekend in both their clinical record and the handover sheet
- Ensure comprehensive handover of clinical information to consultants covering out of hours, ensuring seamless continuity of care
Why apply for this role as Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine
At our organisation we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training, we offer our employees a wide range of benefits; from 27 days annual leave, generous private healthcare cover, contributory pension schemes – including continuation of the NHS pension.
Working with us, all eligible employees receive;
- Access to NHS pension for those already in it
- Contributory pension schemes to suit all pockets
- Private healthcare cover of up to £20,000 per year
- 27 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
- Ongoing training and development programmes and a genuine commitment to continuous professional development
- Discounts at local, national and online shops
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- Cycle to work loan scheme
- Employee "Service Excellence" recognition rewards
If you are ready for a new challenge and relish the chance to become part of a successful, forward thinking organisation then we would love to hear from you.