PALLIATIVE MEDICINE CONSULTANT

Job Description:

• Contribute to the delivery of high-quality specialist palliative care advice, management and support to patients, families, carers and the wider clinical teams within UHL.
• Participation in the daily clinical board round with the Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialists.
• Share responsibility for Consultant Palliative Care provision in the areas in which you work, particularly at your base site.
• Lead clinician for specialist palliative care at LGH (LRI/LGH post)
• Participate in undergraduate teaching duties alongside clinical service delivery
• Full contribution to the Consultant non-resident second on call rota. Potential for up to 1PA for education
• Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures.
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally.
• Participating in medical audit, the Trusts Clinical Governance processes and in CPD time for CPD is provided in job plans and attendance at audit and other governance meetings is mandatory; Managerial, including budgetary responsibilities where appropriate and compliance with standing orders and standing financial instructions of the Trust.
• Respond in a timely fashion to legitimate requests from Trust officers this might include investigations of incidents or complaints.
• Participate in teaching and training of junior staff and other clinical staff groups. The appointee will also have supervision responsibilities for junior medical staff within the specialty but not as a named educational supervisor initially although with expansion of the number of postgraduate doctors in training in the palliative care team, there may be opportunities for this.
• Participate in professional continuing medical education; study leave is provided for this purpose.
• Undertake the Trust Corporate and Directorate specific Induction and competency Programmes appropriate to role.
• Maintain their continuing professional development (CPD) to be able to successfully revalidate.