Consultant in Palliative Medicine

6 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join our specialist palliative care services within Central Lancashire on a 1-year fixed term basis.

The hospital sessions are based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who are also the employing organisation. The hospice inpatient sessions are based at St Catherine’s Hospice, Preston. The community specialist palliative care team are based at St Catherine’s Hospice and cover Preston, Chorley and South Ribble.

The post holder will also work closely with colleagues in palliative care across Central Lancashire, supporting the delivery of Specialist Palliative Care within the hospital, hospice and community settings, including the provision of cross-cover for consultant colleagues when needed and supporting the on-call provision based at St Catherine’s Hospice.

Duties will include the following, please see full job description for all duties:

- Provide specialist palliative medical advice and clinical input as part of the inpatient liaison service.
- Provide clinical support to the Palliative Care CNS team through MDT meeting input, telephone advice and joint reviews within inpatient and community clinical settings.
- Take responsibility for the medical care of hospice inpatients, alongside the other hospice IP consultant when regular inpatient sessions are agreed within the job plan.
- Provide senior medical input into the care of hospice inpatients including ward rounds, advice to junior medical staff and the wider MDT, and supervision of admissions during hospice inpatient sessions.
- Provide Specialist Palliative Care representation at cancer site/ non-cancer disease specific MDT's to support early palliative care interventions including advance care planning and referral to palliative care services if appropriate.
- Provide leadership around clinical audit and quality improvement and other governance activities such as risk management.
- Provide supervision and clinical support for trainees in specialist palliative medicine and other medical staff in the palliative care team.
- Support the delivery of multi-professional education and training
- Support the delivery of palliative care services out of hours by participating in a non-residential on call rota.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust forms one of the major acute Trusts in the North West with all the main specialties. We are the tertiary centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in the departments of neurosciences, renal medicine, oncology, plastic surgery and burns.

**There are two main hospital sites**: Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital. The Hospital SPC inpatient service receives an average of 225 referrals per month across 2 hospital sites. An increasing proportion of referrals are for patients with a non-cancer diagnosis both from the local population and across the tertiary services. The hospital specialist palliative care team provide a liaison service to adult inpatients.

St Catherine’s Hospice is a highly respected, forward-thinking independent registered charity with an excellent history. Hospice care is provided through Inpatient, Outpatient, Lymphoedema and Community Specialist Nursing Services. The community services include a recently expanded CNS and consultant team, support assistants and a hospice at home pilot. The Hospice is led by a highly committed Board of Trustees who have overseen several refurbishment programmes to continuously improve facilities for patients, carers and families. The ethos of continually striving to provide the best possible services for local people, in ways that suit their personal needs, is strongly embedded in the strategic development of the Hospice.

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



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