Clinical Fellow in Palliative Medicine
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £52,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £52000 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 September 2025 |
| Location: | Esher, KT10 8NA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B0024-25-0003-PAH150 |
Summary
2. Key responsibilities To assess and manage patients admitted to the hospice, with a holistic Multi Professional Team (MPT) approach. To maintain ongoing medical care for in-patients, ensuring continuity of care e.g. attend / contribute to morning MPT handover. To liaise closely with consultant colleagues, maintaining regular day-to-day contact. To work closely with all members of the MPT. To provide planned and urgent medical reviews for patients on the in-patient unit. To support the community team nurses in discussing issues in relation to the management of patients at home when on call. To provide excellent communication / handover of clinical information by telephone, email or in writing as appropriate, ensuring that all relevant in-house / external healthcare professionals are up to date with clinical events e.g. letters to general practitioners after a patient has died or is discharged from the hospice, copying in relevant specialist teams. To support / address the needs of carers / families, e.g. communicating with them as often as necessary. To maintain accurate and clear, contemporaneous patient records i.e. appropriately updated electronic patient records. To attend weekly MPT inpatient meetings and consultant ward rounds. To appropriately manage patients after their death on the IPU; to confirm the nurse-verification of death, to complete the necessary paperwork (Medical Certificate of Cause of Death, Medical Examiner Referral ) and to notify the coroner if necessary. Coordinates with colleagues to provide medical support to the Well-being centre. To work flexibly with the medical team and to provide cover for colleagues and the wider MPT as appropriate. To help with induction, education and supervision of medical students and visiting doctors as appropriate. The post holder maybe required to be part of the on-call rota across Princess Alice Hospice and St Raphaels Hospice in Cheam. This is shared 1:5 first on call rota for weekdays, weekends and bank holidays. Consultants provide 24/7 second oncall cover. Adequate handover and handback across the medical team is expected. 3. General requirement for medical staff To contact one of the consultants, other senior colleague or managers, as appropriate, if there are any clinical concerns. To participate in audit, research or any on-going developments within the hospice and where appropriate to develop their own audit / research. To participate in the medical departments CPD programme e.g. Monday meetings and the alternating monthly, Wednesday / Thursday medical journal club as well as other educational activities at the Hospice. To participate in teaching for the wider MPT, hospice staff / volunteers and externally where appropriate. To comply with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements as stipulated by the Royal Colleges. To keep up-to-date with clinical mandatory training requirements. To keep a portfolio of evidence, to have an annual appraisal and write a personal development plan (PDP) in line with GMC revalidation policies and procedures. To maintain their own professional indemnity insurance to cover work in the hospice. To maintain confidentiality at all times and comply with all other aspects of the General Medical Councils Code of Professional Conduct / Good Medical Practice. 4. General requirement for all staff To attend any staff meetings, where appropriate, in discussion with the Medical Director. To attend statutory training, e.g. fire training, lifting and handling and other health and safety issues. To act at all times in a manner to safeguard the interests of patients and their families. To be aware of and perform according to the Hospices values and behaviours To monitor, record and assist in investigations of any complaints from patients, visitors and staff, reporting these to the Medical Director. To be fully conversant with, and participate in, the hospices Clinical Governance Policy. To be aware of personal and others responsibility as defined in the Health and Safety at Work Act and COSHH regulations.