Consultant in Palliative Care

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

CQC: Requires improvement

Bury St. Edmunds

Salary

£113,565 – £150,569

Posted

Yesterday

About the role

This is a replacement, permanent 8PA post which presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high quality, patient centered service in a supportive multidisciplinary team.

The post will cover both acute hospital inpatient work and work within community settings, ensuring patients can be seen and supported where ever they are.

The role involves delivering expert clinical care, providing specialist advice to healthcare professionals, participating in the on-call rota, and supporting the development of innovative services that enable patients to receive care closer to home.

The successful candidate will join a team of consultants in Palliative medicine supported by nurse specialists in both acute and community settings. There are opportunities to develop sub specialty interest where this contributes to and complements the department and Trusts' service needs. There are undergraduate & postgraduate education and research opportunities available.

To share with colleagues' responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Palliative Medicine department.

To provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to hospital inpatients in West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Person specification

Essential

Entry on the GMC specialist register in Palliative Medicine or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Training) at the time of interview and hold a licence to practice.
Full GMC registration with a licence to practise
MBBS or equivalent
MRCP (UK) or an equivalent postgraduate qualification
Completion of approved JRCPTB curriculum in Palliative medicine or evidence of equivalent knowledge,
Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of palliative medicine problems.
Awareness of current speciality specific clinical evidence, developments and guidelines
Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
Completion of advanced communication skills training
All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: oPLAB 1 oPLAB 2 However, if applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.
Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Palliative medicine
Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Experience of managing patients with palliative care needs in inpatient, outpatient and community settings
Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Palliative Medicine issues
Experience of supervising resident doctors and advanced practitioners
Experience of workplace- based assessment
Experience in delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g.in-patient priorities
Ability to contribute to strategic developments in service delivery
Experience of audit and quality improvement frameworks
Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
Understanding of current NHS environment, particularly in relation to palliative and end of life care
Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
Publications in peer reviewed journals
Effective communication skills
Commitment to working well within a multi-professional clinical team
Ability to deal effectively with pressure
Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
Positive approach to job planning and appraisal process

Desirable

MD or PhD
Postgraduate qualification in Palliative Medicine or a related subject
Postgraduate teaching qualification
Experience of organising and delivering medical or multiprofessional teaching programmes
Experience of Leadership roles
Ability to supervise research projects
Experience of taking part in a research project