Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Specialist Palliative Care service in Central Lancashire in a substantive consultant post.  The clinical sessions will be split across the community specialist palliative care service and the hospice inpatient service at St Catherine’s Hospice, Preston.

The employing organisation is Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who employ all of the consultants working in Specialist Palliative Care within Central Lancashire.  Services in Central Lancashire cover the regions of Preston, Chorley and South Ribble in Lancashire.

You will  work closely with colleagues in palliative care across Central Lancashire, supporting the delivery of Specialist Palliative Care, predominantly within hospice and community settings.

Community sessions may include domiciliary activity, GSF meetings and medical outpatient clinic based on clinical need.

You  will also support the 2nd on-call provision providing advice to Specialist Palliative Care CNS' based in the hospital and community, and 1st on call medical cover based at St Catherine’s Hospice.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Provide senior specialist palliative medical care as part of the Community Specialist Palliative Care team. This includes direct face to face clinical care in community settings as well as advice to colleagues both within and outside the specialty.
• Take responsibility for the medical care of hospice inpatients, alongside the other hospice IP consultant.  This includes ward rounds, advice to junior medical staff and the wider MDT, and supervision of admissions during hospice inpatient sessions.
• Work collaboratively with the Hospice Medical Director, existing consultants, and Hospice leadership teams to provide clinical, operational and strategic leadership.
• Be an active member of Central Lancashire Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy and Operational Cross Boundary Group.
• Provide leadership around clinical audit and quality improvement and other governance activities such as risk management. Undertake audit of departmental and own practice in line with the audit forward plan and appraisal requirements. To attend the monthly directorate audit and governance meeting at LTHTR.
• Participate in the bi-monthly Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care business meetings at LTHTR.
• Support the delivery of multi-professional education and training alongside the End-of-Life care educators in both LTHTR and St Catherine’s.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:

• What we can offer
• Job Plan/On-call Requirements
• The Team

Informal enquiries and requests to visit the Hospitals are welcome and should be made, following shortlisting, with Dr. Geraldine Skailes, Medical Director and Silas Nicholls, Chief Executive (01772) 522692