Consultant Palliative Medicine

6 months ago

Shrewsbury, United Kingdom The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Consultants in Palliative Medicine to join a friendly and dynamic team based at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust working in collaboration with Severn Hospice.
The Department of Palliative Medicine at SaTH consists of a team of 3 senior specialist palliative care doctors. Together with the team at Severn Hospice, providing palliative care to the population of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and Mid-Wales.

Two posts are offered (one of which replaces a fixed term locum post) which attract 8-10 programmed activities each and an on-call supplement. Applications are welcome from those who wish to work full-time, part time or job share.

Contribution to an out of hours on call rota is core to this role

**Main Clinical duties include**:
To provide an early, proactive, palliative care review service with support to both hospital sites, The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), Telford.

To provide support for daily ward reviews to optimise holistic patient care and flow to the Hospice and Community

To support the 7-day Specialist Palliative Care service across the Trust, Severn Hospice and the community

To participate in the existing out of hours specialist palliative care consultant on call rota for the area, which is shared between Hospital and Hospice Palliative care consultants.

To collaborate in the provision of the palliative and end of life care education program to all front line clinicians within the trust.

To undertake teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and to contribute to postgraduate and continuing education both locally and nationally.

To participate in clinical governance including to undertake quality improvement and clinical audit.

At Severn Hospice, for the shared post, the main clinical duties would include:
Provision of Consultant input to the hospice wards, mainly based on Perry ward ,Shrewsbury (8 beds), but providing cross-cover to Alexandra Ward, Telford (11 beds) when needed.

Provide clinical leadership for the hospice multidisciplinary team

To oversee the care of patients admitted to the hospice for symptom control, emergency respite and terminal care.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.

Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust’s catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) - all beautiful and unique.

Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes’ drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.

on a 10 PA working week. The job plan will be reviewed annually and is a prospective agreement that sets out the consultant's duties, responsibilities, and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external and will include personal objectives, detailing links to wider service improvements and trust strategic priorities.

For an 8PA contract, the job plan will be divided on average per week as:

- 6 Programmed Activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care - includes clinical activity, clinically related activity

and predictable and unpredictable emergency work.
- 2 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - includes CPD, audit, teaching and research.

of the Royal College of Physicians.

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