Specialist Doctor in Palliative Medicine
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Job summary
We are looking for a versatile, enthusiastic individual to work with the existing Palliative Care Team at SHFT, helping to provide outstanding care to our service users and patients as they are at the centre of everything we do.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Palliative Care Team has an established team of three Consultants and two Specialist Drs who provide medical input and leadership to the multi-professional, specialist palliative care services across inpatient hospice and two community settings. This post arises as a result of an impending consultant retirement and service reconfiguration. A consultant advert will follow shortly.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a Clinician your responsibilities will focus on the specialist medical support of the Community and Hospice teams. On-call responsibilities working on a 1 in 4 rota alongside the 2 consultants and Specialist Doctor, providing advisory telephone support to the Portsmouth & SE Hampshire ICP population both in Queen Alexandra Hospital and the community.
This post will primarily focus on clinical provision, which as in any Palliative Care team includes a significant amount of advice and education provision for community teams, general practice and other members of the Palliative Care services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
*Provide robust evidence based care, advice and support across all three settings
*Provide specialist advice, support and information to patients and carers through direct consultations
*Liaise with GPs, community teams, in-patient unit, PHT consultants, CNSs, and managers of any service
When working on the Hospice ward
*Responsibility for leadership of the day to day medical care of inpatients in the Rowans Hospice.
*The role of ward admissions co-ordinator during the working day is managed by the Palliative Care Support Hub, which senior nursing and medical staff are rostered to support.
*Conduct at least one senior ward round each week and attend the Thursday Ward MDT meeting
*Advising Specialty Doctors (numbers vary) on medical management and supporting supervision of the trainees (currently 2xFY2 & 2xGPVTS posts) as appropriate to their experience.
When working in the community
*Attend twice weekly SPC Caseload Review Meetings. Undertake initial home visits and clinical re-views
*Support of Community Matrons and specialist nursing teams by means of advice, joint visits and education
*Outpatient assessments as appropriate
*Attend, where appropriate, GP GSF meetings
*Attend CCG TARGET (GP education) meetings to support EoL education.
Palliative Care Support Hub
*Each Senior Doctor and a number of the specialty Drs, Band 7 CNSs and above, support the hub for one or two sessions each per week. See indicative job plan.
About us
Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!
Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.
Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.
Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:
- Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
- We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
- We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.
Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.
Details
Date posted
16 January 2024
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Specialist
Salary
£83,945 to £95,275 a year Does not include on-call supplement for working 1 in 4
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours
Reference number
348-PSE-MED-3445A
Job locations
The Rowans Hospice
Purbrook Heath Road, Purbrook
Waterlooville
Hampshire
PO7 5RU
Employer details
Employer name
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Rowans Hospice
Purbrook Heath Road, Purbrook
Waterlooville
Hampshire
PO7 5RU
Employer's website
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