Consultant in Palliative Care - (Community and Hospice) (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant) - Palliative Care - Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Chester, Cheshire West and Chester
Applications are invited for the position of Consultant in Palliative Medicine.
The successful candidate will be a permanent Consultant in Palliative Medicine working across the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team (CSPCT) within Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) and Hospice of the Good Shepherd (HGS). This is an exciting opportunity to facilitate and enhance the care of patients with life-limiting illness across West Cheshire - providing specialist advice and input in hospital and community settings and leading further service development and research.
The postholder will collaborate closely with existing consultants within the collaborative service, providing specialist palliative medical skills for patients and leadership to a wider team of clinicians tasked with the delivery of responsive, effective, coordinated, compassionate, person-centered palliative care.
The successful applicant will enhance and facilitate the care of the terminally ill across the locality and act as a focus for advice and generalist contact in community and hospice settings and further development and research locally.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services, and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
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