SPECIALIST GRADE IN PALLIATIVE MEDICINE | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £83,945 - £95,275 Grade MC70 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | Walsall, WS3 1SJ |
| Company: | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6038965/407-MLTC-6038965 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, close-knit team at Walsall Palliative Care centre, we are looking to appoint a Specialist Grade in Palliative Medicine to be an integral part of the team. The post will sit within the community services division within the department of Palliative Medicine.
Palliative Care has an exceptional team team across Walsall Healthcare who are keen to continue to develop their services for their patients across a 12 bedded Specialist Palliative Care inpatient unit, a day hospice and community Palliative Care patients. For the right applicant this is in an exciting opportunity to develop the post as it is one of the first of its kind at the Trust.
The job plan will be based on a 10 PA contract and the post holder will be expected to travel throughout the day conducting community visits in patients homes.
As a senior employee of Walsall Healthcare Trust, it is expected that the post holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services.
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and homebased care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.
Walsall Healthcare is committed to equality , diversity and inclusion and recognise that there is under representation in our workforce and we particularly welcome applications from people from a Black Asian and Minority Ethnic background, people with a disability and people who identify as LGBTQ+. The Trust is also committed to providing apprenticeships in order to address under representation in certain sections of the workforce
Key roles and responsibilities
• Work with consultants and other professionals to provide integrated Palliative Medicine within an area of their special interest with responsibility for specialist medical care, advice, and support in order to provide high quality individualised care to patients / clients in line with local and national guidelines. This will include the planning and development, management, and delivery of these services.
• Provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty and related services.
• Undertake all work in accordance with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust policies and procedures and conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust service plans.
• Have excellent communication and liaison skills and the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team.
• Provide specialist medical care, advice and support in order to provide high quality individualised care to patients in line with local and national guidelines.
• Lead medical and holistic assessments and care for all patients on the inpatient unit, in line with patients’ care plan, as part of the multidisciplinary team – ensuring medical care is evidence based and best practice.
• Ensure family members and other loved ones needs are assessed and addressed.
• Lead members of the medical team to ensure each patient is reviewed as frequently as their symptoms dictate and the whole MDT understand management plans.
• Be able to lead complex brave conversations e.g., about bad news, prognosis, complaints and errors.
• Participate in inpatient MDT meetings and others as required fostering a culture of compassion, collaboration, and respect.
• Lead team to carry out basic clinical procedures as necessary including phlebotomy and cannulation. Catheterisation of male patients is occasionally required. Perform / arrange other necessary procedures for patient comfort such as abdominal paracentesis and blood transfusions. The post holder or team member will not be expected to attempt procedures in which they do not feel competent.
• Maintain accurate and timely patient records.
• Ensure legible prescribing in accordance with local policy.
• Proactively communicate with primary and secondary care services (and other statutory and voluntary agencies) as appropriate to ensure continuity of medical care.
• Ensure team delivers consistently high standards of holistic assessment records, discharge letters, letters notifying death, TTO prescriptions and anticipatory prescribing in line with local guidance.
• Ensure team confirm and certify deaths, complete cremation paperwork in line with local protocol, liaising with the Coroner’s Office and Medical Examiner where required by law and local practice.
• As necessary, be available to assess patients in the palliative care centre, the day hospice or, the domiciliary setting.
• Provide supervision and support for more junior team members.
• Strong commitment to own & others emotional wellbeing including but not limited to participation in clinical supervision, reflection etc.
Teaching/Clinical Governance/Other
• To assume the role of educator, both formally and informally, to all those involved in the care of the patient to fulfil Walsall Healthcare’s strong commitment to training doctors, nurses & other professionals.
• Ensure good induction for new members of medical staff on ward.
• To take an active role in undergraduate and postgraduate medical and nursing teaching and training.
• Provide prospective cover for medical colleagues across the care group for purposes of annual, study and professional leave.
• Take responsibility for ensuring evidence-based practice and improving quality of service by participating in departmental clinical governance activities, audit program and QI projects, policy, guidelines and SOP development.
• Engage actively in the Trust appraisal, job planning and revalidation process.
• To adhere to the GMC code of professional conduct and always exemplify Trust Values.
• Proactively celebrate and consolidate excellence in care using principles of learning from excellence.
• Proactively identify risks to safety and quality and mitigate, escalate, and negotiate solutions as appropriate.
• To complete mandatory training.
• To commit to continuing professional development including sharing learning with team and proactively implementing QI or changes practices.
PROPOSED JOB PLAN
A ten programmed activities job plan and work schedule will set out agreed arrangements for how work is organised, where it is located, what in general terms the work comprises and when it is to be performed.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
Palliative Care has an exceptional team team across Walsall Healthcare who are keen to continue to develop their services for their patients across a 12 bedded Specialist Palliative Care inpatient unit, a day hospice and community Palliative Care patients. For the right applicant this is in an exciting opportunity to develop the post as it is one of the first of its kind at the Trust.
The job plan will be based on a 10 PA contract and the post holder will be expected to travel throughout the day conducting community visits in patients homes.
As a senior employee of Walsall Healthcare Trust, it is expected that the post holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services.
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and homebased care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.
Walsall Healthcare is committed to equality , diversity and inclusion and recognise that there is under representation in our workforce and we particularly welcome applications from people from a Black Asian and Minority Ethnic background, people with a disability and people who identify as LGBTQ+. The Trust is also committed to providing apprenticeships in order to address under representation in certain sections of the workforce
Key roles and responsibilities
• Work with consultants and other professionals to provide integrated Palliative Medicine within an area of their special interest with responsibility for specialist medical care, advice, and support in order to provide high quality individualised care to patients / clients in line with local and national guidelines. This will include the planning and development, management, and delivery of these services.
• Provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty and related services.
• Undertake all work in accordance with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust policies and procedures and conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust service plans.
• Have excellent communication and liaison skills and the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team.
• Provide specialist medical care, advice and support in order to provide high quality individualised care to patients in line with local and national guidelines.
• Lead medical and holistic assessments and care for all patients on the inpatient unit, in line with patients’ care plan, as part of the multidisciplinary team – ensuring medical care is evidence based and best practice.
• Ensure family members and other loved ones needs are assessed and addressed.
• Lead members of the medical team to ensure each patient is reviewed as frequently as their symptoms dictate and the whole MDT understand management plans.
• Be able to lead complex brave conversations e.g., about bad news, prognosis, complaints and errors.
• Participate in inpatient MDT meetings and others as required fostering a culture of compassion, collaboration, and respect.
• Lead team to carry out basic clinical procedures as necessary including phlebotomy and cannulation. Catheterisation of male patients is occasionally required. Perform / arrange other necessary procedures for patient comfort such as abdominal paracentesis and blood transfusions. The post holder or team member will not be expected to attempt procedures in which they do not feel competent.
• Maintain accurate and timely patient records.
• Ensure legible prescribing in accordance with local policy.
• Proactively communicate with primary and secondary care services (and other statutory and voluntary agencies) as appropriate to ensure continuity of medical care.
• Ensure team delivers consistently high standards of holistic assessment records, discharge letters, letters notifying death, TTO prescriptions and anticipatory prescribing in line with local guidance.
• Ensure team confirm and certify deaths, complete cremation paperwork in line with local protocol, liaising with the Coroner’s Office and Medical Examiner where required by law and local practice.
• As necessary, be available to assess patients in the palliative care centre, the day hospice or, the domiciliary setting.
• Provide supervision and support for more junior team members.
• Strong commitment to own & others emotional wellbeing including but not limited to participation in clinical supervision, reflection etc.
Teaching/Clinical Governance/Other
• To assume the role of educator, both formally and informally, to all those involved in the care of the patient to fulfil Walsall Healthcare’s strong commitment to training doctors, nurses & other professionals.
• Ensure good induction for new members of medical staff on ward.
• To take an active role in undergraduate and postgraduate medical and nursing teaching and training.
• Provide prospective cover for medical colleagues across the care group for purposes of annual, study and professional leave.
• Take responsibility for ensuring evidence-based practice and improving quality of service by participating in departmental clinical governance activities, audit program and QI projects, policy, guidelines and SOP development.
• Engage actively in the Trust appraisal, job planning and revalidation process.
• To adhere to the GMC code of professional conduct and always exemplify Trust Values.
• Proactively celebrate and consolidate excellence in care using principles of learning from excellence.
• Proactively identify risks to safety and quality and mitigate, escalate, and negotiate solutions as appropriate.
• To complete mandatory training.
• To commit to continuing professional development including sharing learning with team and proactively implementing QI or changes practices.
PROPOSED JOB PLAN
A ten programmed activities job plan and work schedule will set out agreed arrangements for how work is organised, where it is located, what in general terms the work comprises and when it is to be performed.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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