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Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine
| Posting date: | 19 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £99,532.00 to £131,964.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £99532.00 - £131964.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2024 |
| Location: | Warwick, CV34 6PX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0268-24-0017 |
Summary
1. Role purpose To provide senior medical and clinical leadership to support the continued delivery of Hospice care services and support to community based palliative care practitioners. The post-holder will contribute to the on-going development of specialist palliative care services, excellent clinical governance arrangements across The Myton Hospices and the development of educational and research initiatives. 2. Principal Duties of the Post The Terms and conditions of employment for this role will mirror the standard NHS TCS terms for Consultant appointments The following provides an outline of the main duties of this post. This list is not an exhaustive or exclusive list. The appointee to this post is required to: Clinical: Take Consultant responsibility for hospice inpatients up to 12 beds (for an 0.8 WTE role), split across both Coventry and Warwick sites. Inpatient workload will form the majority of the direct patient care activity, and will include some follow up with patients discharged from the IPUs into NHS Community Care-led teams Provide expert advice and support regarding complex ethical and clinical decision making Lead and contribute to the weekly Inpatient Unit (IPU) Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Meeting which is chaired by a senior ward nurse and attended by all members of the MDT Work collaboratively with other Myton Doctors to provide consultant advice, support and clinical expertise to the clinical team at Myton Support the Myton Specialist and Specialty Doctors and Referrals Team to provide expert advice and guidance to health care professionals caring for patients with palliative and end of life care needs in Coventry and Warwickshire Occasional Community/Outpatient support for clinics run or supported by Myton Educational: Participate in regular medical department meetings and education sessions Provide teaching and clinical supervision to doctors working at Myton on rotation - Palliative Medicine Specialty Registrars and GP Specialty Doctors Act as an Educational Supervisor for one Palliative Medicine Specialty Registrar Maintain own continuing professional development according to the requirements of the Royal College of Physicians/the Royal College of General Practitioners. Myton supports the requirements for CPD and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities Contribute to the planning and delivery of undergraduate medical education in all aspects of palliative, end of life care, communication skills and ethics Participate in undergraduate, postgraduate and multi-professional palliative care education programmes organised by Myton and the CASTLE Education Group Lead on and/or participate in local Specialist Palliative Care education sessions Support with the continuing professional development of Myton the Myton team, including nurses who are further developing their competencies in specialist palliative care, training clinical nurse practitioners and non-medical prescribers Quality Improvement, Audit and Patient Safety: Engage with monitoring of patient safety through the clinical governance assurance systems in place at Myton Support with risk management and ongoing quality improvement initiatives Take a lead role with the Myton audit programme supporting other staff with audit, actively participating in clinical audits. Participating in relevant national audits is also encouraged Provide clinical leadership and guidance through the Myton Clinical Advisory Group Contribute to the development, implementation and response to local and national policy and guidance Be supportive of research and/or engage in research opportunities Support Myton to further develop research links with academic centres and NHS Trust Research Leads/National Institute for Health Research/other West Midlands Hospices Pursue special interests in aspects of palliative care in collaboration with colleagues locally which may also enable service improvements Strategic: Seek new and innovative opportunities for Myton Participate and lead on local/regional/national initiatives as agreed within Myton Contribute to developing and implementing The Myton Hospices Strategy Provide strategic leadership within local network groups to support in the development of generalist and specialist palliative care services