About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join our specialist palliative care services within Central Lancashire.
This is a substantive (0.8WTE) consultant post within the hospital specialist palliative care service at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder would be part of a dynamic team that includes 6 consultants delivering specialist palliative care across Central Lancashire within hospital, community and hospice settings. The post includes participation in a 1:6 on call rota providing consultant advice (2nd on call) to specialist palliative care services based at St Catherine's Hospice and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Provide specialist palliative medical advice and clinical input within the Trust.
- Provide clinical support to the Palliative Care CNS team through MDT meeting input, telephone advice and joint reviews within inpatient clinical settings.
- Provide Specialist Palliative Care representation at cancer site/ non-cancer disease specific multidisciplinary meetings.
- Complete administration duties associated with this post's provision of Specialist Palliative Care.
- Work collaboratively with the Clinical Director for Palliative Care, Lead Nurse in Palliative and End of life Care, Hospice Medical Director, existing consultants, and Hospice leadership teams to provide clinical, operational and strategic leadership.
- Provide leadership around clinical audit and quality improvement and other governance activities.
- Participate in the bi-monthly Specialist Palliative Care Directorate business meetings.
- Provide supervision and clinical support for trainees in specialist palliative medicine and other medical staff in the palliative care team.
- Support the delivery of multi-professional education and training alongside the End-of-Life care educator at LTHTR.
- Provide cross cover for consultant colleagues where necessary across the hospital, community and hospice services.
- Support the delivery of palliative care services out of hours by participating in a 1 in 6 non-residential on call rota.
About us
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an acute trust in the North West with all major specialties. We are the tertiary centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria for neurosciences, renal medicine, oncology, plastic surgery and burns. Undergraduate medical student teaching commenced here in 2003 and considerable opportunities exist for research and development which are integral to Teaching Hospital status. There are two main hospital sites: Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital.
Lancashire is an attractive area to live and has many facilities available locally with easy access to the beauty of the Lake District and excellent road & rail links with the rest of the mainland UK including Manchester and Liverpool airports.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:
What we can offer
Job Plan/On-call Requirements
The Team
Informal enquiries and requests to visit the Hospitals are welcome and should be made, following shortlisting, with Mr. Steve Canty, Medical Director and Silas Nicholls, Chief Executive (01772) 522692
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Full GMC Registration with license to practice MBBS or equivalent MRCP UK or equivalent Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for Palliative Medicine via one of the following: A. Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) (The proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview) B. Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) C. European Community Rights
Desirable
Higher Medical Degree (MA, MD, MSc, PhD)
Experience Essential
Experience and training in Specialist Palliative Care in hospital, hospice and community. Proven ability in managing complex holistic palliative care in both malignant and non-malignant conditions Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients at Consultant level Awareness of current speciality specific clinical evidence, developments and guidelines Experience in supervising junior medical colleagues
Desirable
Broad experience of medicine across a variety of settings including acute medicine Involvement in research projects relating to the specialist area Experience of leading and developing education and training
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.
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Employer details Employer name Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal Preston Hospital
Sharoe Green Lane
Preston
PR2 9HT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)