Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Lead Hospice Consultant to work in London on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Lead Hospice Consultant job is £93,600 per annum.
Benefits:
- Competitive pay with progressive band structuring, as well as generous unsociable hours enhancements (if applicable)
- For employees joining us from the NHS, we can provide continuation of your NHS pension.
- Contributory pension schemes to suit all pockets.
- Private healthcare cover of up to £20,000 per year
- 27 days annual leave
- We can provide short-term accommodation for new starters at The Hospital
- Ongoing training and development programmes
- Discounts at local, national and online shops
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- Cycle to work loan scheme
- Employee "Service Excellence" recognition rewards
- Childcare vouchers
- £1,000 Refer a Friend scheme
Main Duties:
- Work as part of a team of consultants, providing specialist palliative care to patients predominantly in the hospice DCU and Outpatients. The post will also require occasional palliative care reviews of hospital patients, in addition to cross-covering the community and the IPU to ensure adequate clinical cover for the service is maintained when colleagues are on leave.
- Work collaboratively with all other team members and provide clinical support to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Attend the weekly DCU MDT meeting and take responsibility for decisions about patients.
- Agree and arrange safe admissions and discharges of patients to and from the Hospice in line with local policy when covering the IPU
- Ensure that comprehensive plans are made and recorded for each in-patient prior to the weekend in both their clinical record and the handover sheet
- Participate in a non-resident telephone on-call service providing advice to St John’s Hospice in-patient and community services and supporting the in-patient telephone advice line. On-call duties are shared between the three
- Consultants and are also supported through an external provider as a consultant telephone on call rota.
- Act as a key member of the Senior Management Team, liaising with the Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Director, Assistant Director of Nursing – Hospice, Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Hospice Heads of Departments and other staff members, ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach to palliative care
- The post-holder will be the DCU and Outpatient lead for the Hospice
- To participate in the daily referrals meeting and clinical handover meetings as required
- To assist in the induction of new members of the medical staff
- Undergraduate teaching to visiting medical students
- Education and teaching for doctors in training and professionals visiting the unit
- Participate in teaching programmes for multi-professional teams within and outside the hospice.
- Participate in The weekly Journal Club that is held in conjunction with the Palliative care teams at Imperial and Pembridge
- Incorporating clinical effectiveness, risk management and audit into everyday practice and service developments
- Promoting evidence based practice, and use of Clinical Guidelines
- Participating and leading on audits by the medical team and supervising junior doctors in undertaking audits
- Participate in the senior management and governance meetings
Requirements of the Lead Hospice Consultant:
- Qualified Medical Practitioner
- Postgraduate higher qualification: PhD, Diploma or Master’s degree in an appropriate subject is desirable
- Full GMC registration
- Entry on GMC specialist register for Palliative Medicine or CCT (due within 6 months of interview) or has a CESR
- Membership of relevant Royal College or equivalent
- Experienced accredited clinical/educational supervisor and qualified medical appraiser is desirable
- Advanced Communication Skills certificate / training is desirable
- Extensive experience in palliative medicine
- Experience at Consultant in Palliative Medicine level is desirable
- Excellent clinical skills
- The authority and decision-making skills needed to lead a multidisciplinary team in a complex environment
- Ability to supervise the clinical work of consultants, doctors in training and other staff
- Evidence of under and/or post graduate teaching
Contact:
This Lead Hospice Consultant job is advertised by Lucy Ferguson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
