Job responsibilities
Job Title: Consultant in Palliative Medicine with Education
6-10 PAs
Salary Range: £88,364 to £119,133 per annum
Base: Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Farnham
Accountable to: Medical Director
Job Summary
This post is for a Consultant in Palliative Medicine. As a full time post it comprises of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs). Part time applicants would be considered. Direct clinical care (DCC) will be delivered on the In-Patient Unit initially. Over time there will be an expectation to rotate the clinical component of this job to the community team. The post will also include supporting professional activity (SPA) time dedicated to the development and delivery of educational activities to the organisations multidisciplinary team and external colleagues.
The appointee will be an employee of Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care (PT).
Background
The post has become available through the resignation of an established consultant from the team.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical
- To provide Consultant-led care to the In-Patient Unit or in the community team.
- To provide high quality clinical care supported by current clinical knowledge/ evidence based practice as part of a Specialist Palliative Care Team.
- To contribute to the multi-disciplinary review and decision making around referral, treatment and discharge for patients with advanced disease, or terminal diagnoses through attendance at the weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- To work in partnership with patients and their families/carers as a member of the multi-disciplinary Specialist Palliative Care Team.
- To participate in on call rotas with Specialist Palliative Care Consultant colleagues to provide 7-day, 24-hour advice.
- When required by the service, to provide care and medical management to patients in their own home and in care homes by working with the Clinical Nurse Specialists and primary care colleagues and undertaking domiciliary visits, outpatients and providing telephone support.
- To adhere to and review clinical standards of care including NICE, ICS guidelines and inhouse guidance and further contribute to the development of clinical guidelines within the locality and regions as appropriate.
- To help review, where appropriate, clinical processes, policies, protocols etc., in order to deliver the highest possible quality of care.
- To support the collection of accurate clinical data using PTs databases including EMIS and sentinel.
Education and Training
- Work with the Education manager and the team to influence the development, implementation, and monitoring of PTs education strategy.
- To work with the Learning and Development team to deliver education to external colleagues including physicians associates, paramedics, General Practitioners, pharmacists, and community nurses both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
- To provide both formal and informal teaching/education in Palliative Medicine to multi-disciplinary health care professionals across care settings in collaboration with local Specialist Palliative Care colleagues.
- To establish and develop, along with other key members of PT, effective links with other educational institutions such as medical schools and universities who are involved in the provision of Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care education and training.
- Support the work of maintaining and developing university accreditation of PT-delivered education and training.
- To act with others as clinical supervisor for training grade doctors and specialty doctors. This would include involvement in their induction, supervision and assessments during their rotation to us and liaising with their education supervisors as necessary.
Management
- To undertake clinical service development/evaluation projects as required to support the implementation of the clinical strategy.
- Assist the Medical Director by leading on agreed and delegated management responsibilities across PT.
- To maintain accurate and contemporaneous record keeping and data collection in accordance with guidelines.
- To participate in regular appraisal, continuous professional development in accordance with PTs processes for revalidation.
- To establish a process for obtaining clinical supervision/mentoring from a peer Consultant in Palliative Medicine or suitably trained external clinical supervisor
- To abide by PTs procedures, policies and guidance in relation to operational issues, health and safety, data protection, clinical governance and confidentiality.
Quality, Clinical Governance and Research
To be involved in Clinical Governance activities including audit, medicines management, learning from deaths, incident investigation etc.
To participate in quality improvement activities
To conduct baseline assessment against best practice guidance (DoHSC directives, and NICE technology appraisals, interventional procedures and clinical guidelines).
Research
To support the research consultant to promote a positive research and evidence base culture across all clinical areas of PT.
To maintain training on Good Clinical Practice
To be involved in PT research activities including identifying and consenting research subjects
Internal Focus
To develop relationships with key staff and in particular Medical Director, Director of Patient Services, Community Manager, Ward Manager and Ward Sisters.
To support the Medical Director and the Director of Patient Services to advise the Board of Trustees in the formulation of policy and planning.
Support the Medical Director in advising the Senior Management Team, Chief Executive and Board as necessary on medical issues and broader clinical issues in conjunction with the Director of Patient Services.
Contribute to the development of PTs yearly business plan and longer-term strategic plans, for own area of expertise as well as inputting as appropriate to other areas.
External Focus
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of external factors impacting on specialist palliative care, including government policy and thinking, best practice and clinical developments and proactively contribute this knowledge to the development of PTs clinical operations and strategy.
To deputise as appropriate for the Medical Director representing the interests of PT at network meetings / locality meetings / End of Life etc.
Actively support the Income Generating team in their work to raise funds for PT and linking with patients and their carers.
Location of work
Office facilities will be provided with access to secretarial support, a computer, internet access, e-mail, and telephone. The post holder will need to work across all clinical sites (The Beacon, Farnham hospice site and temporary accommodation during the re-build) to fulfil all components of the job as well as to provide cover for consultant leave.
The role will involve working with local Specialist Palliative Care colleagues based at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Frimley Park Hospital, Thames Hospice, Woking Hospice, and the Midhurst Community Team.
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