Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Pilgrims Hospices is embarking on an ambitious recruitment drive tosupport transformative changes following review of our clinical strategy to enhancesupportive and end-of-life-care by expanding the senior clinical leadershipgroup to a multidisciplinary team.

We welcome applications from passionate candidates who would beinterested to join us as Consultant(s) in Palliative Medicine, to make adifference to the people in East Kent, bringing comprehensive clinicalexpertise and a deep commitment to holistic care.

This is a great position for new colleagues who have come to the end oftheir training but also for experienced colleagues who want to help shape a newmodel of palliative care provision in East Kent. The Consultant in Palliative Medicine will bejoining existing and new Nurse and Medical Consultants, working alongside SpecialtyDoctors, GP and FY2 trainees as well as Specialist Registrars and AdvancedClinical Practitioners. PilgrimsHospices is aligned to three medical schools and also hosts an University ofKent led fellowship / GPwSI post.

We operate three inpatient units in Canterbury, Ashford and Margate withtypical multi-disciplinary teams to support patients in our 36 beds, in thecommunity including hospice at home services and in our three therapycentres.

Main duties of the job

As a Consultant in Palliative Medicine and part of our clinicalleadership team you will be expected to practice at an advanced level to :

• Deliver high-quality patient care with expertise and autonomy;
• Develop and maintainspecialist areas of interest to support our clinical strategy;
• Collaborate with external stakeholders to develop pathways and shape processes;
• Lead and motivate teams to improve standards of practice :
• Contribute to research, service evaluation and quality assurance initiatives;
• Commit to your own Continuous Professional Development, support and coach others doing the same.

To be successful as a Consultant in Palliative Medicine you will need :

Strongleadership and team motivation skills

Commitmentto evidence based practice and quality improvement

Supervisory andeducational experience required.

The Consultant in Palliative Medicine job description has been approvedby the Royal College of Physicians. Ifyou would like to speak to us about this role, or to arrange an informal visit,please contact Dr. Pia Amsler on or via email at

About us

Pilgrims Hospice is the lead provider of specialist palliative care inEast Kent serving a population of over 800,000 spread across a geographicalarea of over 700 square miles of a largely rural area with main urbanpopulation in Ashford, Folkestone, Canterbury, Dover, Margate, and Ramsgate.

Please visit our website for further information on all aspects ofPilgrims Hospices at

Job responsibilities

MAIN PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE JOB :

Consultants are expected to practice at an advanced level and are able to demonstratethe following :

An expert practice function : The Consultant must be able to deliver high qualitycare to patients, enable other practitioners to maintain professional expertise, and tobe able to demonstrate a high degree of professional autonomy within their role of aspecialist within palliative care.

The Consultant will develop or maintain an area of specialist interest and support theMedical Director and the wider executive team with the realisation of the PilgrimsHospices clinical strategy.

This includes the development of clinical policies, standard operating procedures andguidelines; collaboration with relevant external stakeholders and specialists in thattopic and the development and support of working parties and champions at thehospice.

Specialist interests might include non-malignant conditions and widening access tominority groups.

Education, training and development function : The Consultant will contribute tothe training and education of others, establishing formal links with local educationproviders. They should also contribute to the development of an education plan forboth internal and external staff to encourage learning and to support incomegeneration.

Professional leadership and consultancy function : The Consultant should be ableto demonstrate leadership skills which will support and motivate others, in order tocontinuously improve quality of care and standards of practice. They should be asource of expertise and knowledge for others in their specialist fields. NurseConsultants will work aligned with the Medical Consultants and their job descriptionwill mirror each other except for areas where legal distinctions such as supervision ofcolleagues in training, prescribing of medication and similar, become relevant.The medical consultants are expected to act as clinical Supervisors for medicaltrainees and become Educational Supervisors for trainees of higher training grades(SpRs).

Practice, service development, research and evaluation : Consultants willcontribute to development of professional practice, through the promotion of evidence based practice and audits of standards of care. They will support research within thehospice and evaluation of practice within their specialist fields.

Quality assurance : This role is multi-factorial and has the CQC five standards at itsheart. That is to ensure a safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led patient centred service provision. The Medical Consultants, alongside the Nurse Consultantswill lead on creating an environment where standards of care provision areoutstanding across the clinical services working with all staff to support qualityimprovement programmes.

Expert Clinical Practice :

Leadership :

Education :

Personal Responsibilities :

Personal Development :

The Medical Consultants will be supported by Pilgrims Hospices to continue theirProfessional Development as outlined by the Royal College of Physicians.

On-call :

Medical consultants in Palliative Medicine provide 2nd on-call support for a seven dayperiod as part of a regional rota, which includes Medical Consultants from PilgrimsHospices, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) and otherhospices based in Kent. The exact number of postholders across the on-call systemcan vary, however, frequency is expected to be approximately one-in-nine and is notexpected to exceed one-in-seven.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Experience

Skills and Abilities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearDepending on experience

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