Duties across all settings: Function as an essential member of the specialist palliative care teams throughout the county. To provide high quality, flexible, and responsive medical support, assessment, and care and/or specialist advice for patients in County Durham who have complex pain, symptom, spiritual, and psychosocial needs which require specialist palliative care interventions.
Responsibilities will include:
1. Working with the hospital palliative care team to support the care of patients in the acute hospitals.
2. Liaison with other members of the multidisciplinary team, patients' families, primary healthcare teams, hospital services, and other specialist palliative care teams.
3. Completing clinical administrative duties.
4. Participating in teaching and educational activities (students, healthcare professional colleagues including junior medical colleagues, patients, and families).
5. Maintaining continuing professional development through personal development goals and regular review to support and encourage development.
General: Undertake administrative duties associated with the care of patients (including activity data as required) in line with Trust Policy.
Clinical Governance: Contribute to the clinical governance activities of the specialist palliative care team, including regular audit, development of appropriate trust-wide standards, and annual appraisal.
Participate in local and national audit as agreed with the service. Participate in quality improvement initiatives e.g. CQUIN initiatives.
Education: Maintain continuing professional development in accordance with the requirements of the Royal College of Physicians/the Royal College of General Practitioners. Contribute to the delivery of undergraduate medical education and GP trainees in all aspects of palliative, end-of-life care, communication skills, and ethics. Participate in undergraduate, postgraduate, and multi-professional education programmes across primary care and within the Trust. Participate in Specialist Palliative Care Service education sessions.
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