Senior Clinical Fellow in Palliative Care Medicine

Job summary

Senior Clinical Fellow in Palliative Care Medicine

This is an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in Palliative Medicine to work as part of an established hospital liaison multidisciplinary specialist palliative care service. This post would provide an excellent opportunity to up-skill in preparation for applying for a Palliative Medicine training post. Applications would also be welcomed from trainees who are interested in pursuing other medical or surgical careers who want to broaden their experience before specialising. Further, caring for patients with life limiting illnesses is clearly an important aspect of many medical and surgical specialities.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts and depending our service needs, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within five weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

This post will be on 2002 Junior doctor contract on MN37 pay scale.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Fellow will be expected to

• Work within a multi-disciplinary team including Specialist Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Palliative Medicine Consultants and team administrator.
• Gain experience of specialist palliative care holistic assessment and the symptom management of patients with life limiting illnesses.
• Support the development and delivery of End of Life (EOL) education and training for the Trust, including the expansion of the highly evaluated EOL simulation training courses to a broader audience across the organisation.
• Participate in weekly specialist palliative care MDT meetings
• Support the coordination of care for patients known to the Specialist Palliative Care team across the hospital/community interface
• Work with teams across the Medical and Surgical directorates
• Attend educational meetings
• Contribute to the growing portfolio of quality improvement and audit

About us

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.