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Consultant Palliative Medicine | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 PA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 April 2025 |
| Location: | Blackpool, FY3 8NR |
| Company: | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6973494/382-DOC23-25 |
Summary
Consultant Palliative Medicine - Acute & Community
We warmly welcome your application to join our friendly, award-winning Fylde Coast palliative and end of life care team and a well-established Fylde Coast End of Life Group with a longstanding collaborative approach to the care and support for our communtiy.
Weare looking to recruit a full-time consultant to be based across our hospital in-patient and community services to complement the roles of our other consultants and medical teams and skilled palliative care team, to ensure continuity of care across settings and enable us to sustain and continue to develop our services in line with our Fylde Coast Palliative and End of Life Care strategic goals.
The postholder will have an NHS consultant contract with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. An additional honorary contract will be held with Trinity Hospice and the post holder will report to the Medical Director of Trinity Hospice.
The post holder will
· Work collaboratively with the four other Consultants in Palliative Medicine and the wider multi-professional team to ensure the delivery and continuity of specialist palliative care for the population of the Fylde Coast
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· Participate in the second on call medical rota to support the integrated adult service and 24-hour specialist palliative care advice line.
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As the palliative care hub for the Fylde Coast, Trinity Hospice has been providing excellent specialist palliative and end of life care for adults and children with progressive life limiting illnesses for over 35 years. Trinity is highly regarded by partners and the public as a well-run charity eager to build and sustain effective partnerships which does not rest on its laurels.
Trinity is an award-winning organisation, having won National Medium Sized Charity of the Year in 2014, Lancashire Charity of the Year in 2015, the 2019 Nursing Times National Award for Innovation in Technology, retaining Investors in People Gold in 2019 as well as being rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in 2017.
Work collaboratively with the four other Consultants in Palliative Medicine and the wider multi-professional team to ensure the delivery and continuity of specialist palliative care for the population of the Fylde Coast
· Take an active role in the planning, development, and delivery of services to achieve service objectives and continuous improvement of wider specialist palliative care services.
· Provide direct clinical responsibility for the care of hospice inpatients, outpatient clinics and community visits
· Participate in weekly Specialist Palliative Care Multidisciplinary Team meetings.
· Support the delivery of best practice in palliative and end of life care in line with the Fylde Coast End of Life Care Strategy
· Work with the Fylde Coast Strategic End of Life Group to support the implementation of the local strategy and the ongoing development of palliative and end of life care across health and social care on the Fylde Coast.
· Provide strategic palliative and end of life care education leadership for the hospice and Fylde Coast along with key staff at the hospice and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.
· Contribute to the delivery of education to all staff groupsand act as a clinical or educational supervisor to speciality doctors and trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners
This advert closes on Friday 11 Apr 2025
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