Palliative Medicine Consultant
The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
London
Salary
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Posted
Yesterday
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Palliative Medicine Consultant to join our Team. The post-holder will be the consultant based in the Inpatient unit and outpatient Services at St Johns Hospice, and have clinical responsibility for patients accepted by these services, as well as providing cover for the Consultant in Palliative Medicine responsible for the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team and Wellbeing Centre at St Johns Hospice. The post-holder will provide leadership, support and supervision for the medical team at St Johns Hospice.
St Johns Hospice provides a wide range of specialist palliative care and lymphoedema services to patients and families residing in North and West London ICB. The Hospice compromises a 17 bedded Inpatient unit, Wellbeing Centre, Community Specialist Palliative Care service, Hospice@Home service, Lymphoedema service and Social Work 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.
Person specification
Essential
- Evidence of critical thinking
- Evidence of ability to apply evidence to practice
- Evidence of under and/or post graduate teaching
- Evidence of audit projects completed
- Evidence of good personal organisation
- Evidence of effective interpersonal and communication skills (especially around sensitive and complex situations)
- Evidence of working within and leading a multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of ability to work collaboratively within a team of consultants