A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Applications are invited for a Clinical Fellow Higher (ST3-5/ST6+) in Palliative Care to commence from 15 January 2025 until 14 January 2026.
This post offers a fantastic opportunity in a dynamic hospital palliative care team for a doctor who either has experience in specialist palliative care, or has significant experience in another related speciality and is looking to gain more experience in this evolving specialty.
The Clinical Fellow will work within the palliative care team and be involved in providing palliative care to adult inpatients across the Trust.
The post holder will be involved in providing assessment of the needs of patients referred to our service from across the adult inpatient areas and advice to their primary teams about ongoing management, with supervision and support from the team of Consultants. There will be opportunity for review of patients independently and jointly with other team members.
The post holder will attend daily handover meetings to help manage the team’s workload and ensure continuity of care. They will liaise with hospice and community palliative care teams to ensure onward care when patients leave the hospital.
The post holder will provide non-resident first on call out of hours support at the Arthur Rank hospice in Cambridge on a 1:5 basis, with support from the on-call Consultant in Palliative Medicine. They will be involved in handover with the hospice team before and after on-call duties.
Full Registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council at point of application is required, as is completion of Foundation competencies and MRCP or equivalent qualification.
Completion of a Medical/Acute Care Core Programme for Specialty Training Programme or equivalent.
Please note that this post does notcarry Postgraduate Dean’s approval or training recognition.
The applicant must have demonstrable skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking in English that enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues, as set out in the GMC’s Good Medical Practice (2013). Non-UK applicants must possess the IELTS/OET exam before obtaining a GMC licence to practice.
Applications from job seekers who require skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
It is a requirement for skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Addenbrookes Hospital is one of the largest and best known acute hospitals in the country, serving as both the ‘local’ hospital for our community, and also a leading regional and national centre for specialist treatment, research and teaching as one of six academic health science centres in the UK. In the East of England it is the tertiary referral centre for several cancer types, Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, HPB, and also provides a hub-and-spoke model for Renal Medicine. It is a leading national centre for specialist treatment for rare or complex conditions, such as cancer, neurosciences and organ transplantation.
The Addenbrookes palliative care team is fully multi-professional, providing face to face cover seven days a week, 09:00-17:00 for patients attending and admitted to Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge. The department comprises Consultants and Residents (both Trainees, IMT3s, and recently Foundation Trainees), band 6 Specialist Support Nurses, band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialists, Psychologists, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, and excellent administrative support. In the last three years we have been working hard to increase the visibility and presence of our team across the hospital, with an 18% increase in our referrals, and we have grown links with other specialist departments whose patients commonly present with life-limiting conditions and specialist palliative care needs.
We now have established links with inpatient Oncology, Haematology (Myeloma), feeding issues MDT, Hepatology, Vascular Surgery, Neurology, Respiratory wards and Renal Medicine - and our team is recognised to be a helpful and responsive service. In the last year we received over 2,600 inpatient referrals with excellent feedback from patients, families and colleagues alike. The department also delivers outpatient and community services in the form of outpatient Enhanced Supportive Care (ESC) Clinics for Oncology and Hepatology patients, and the internationally renowned Breathlessness Intervention Service (BIS) that is mainly community-based.
Organisationally, the palliative care department sits within Division C, and is based specifically within the directorate of Integrated Medical Services. In addition to providing specialist palliative care support to adult patients, it also supports the broader end of life care agenda through strategic involvement and development of models of care and education. The CQC rated Addenbrookes hospital as “Outstanding” overall for end of life care, and “Outstanding” in the Caring and Well-Led domains in 2018-19.
Please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached for further details on the main responsibilities and duties for this post.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 Jan 2025