Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a full time (10PA) Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care Medicine. Less than full time applications will also be considered.
This is a new clinical post, designed to support the continuing development of our clinical service. This is an exciting opportunity to join our very well-regarded CHIPS (Children's Holistic Integrated Palliative Care Service) team and further development of paediatric palliative care across the North East and North Cumbria. Applicants must be willing to work in a dynamic and creative way to support patients and local teams throughout the region.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit. Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
Main duties of the job
This post is jointly funded through NHS specialist commissioning and St Oswalds Hospice. It has been created to strengthen both the CHIPS specialist palliative care provision across the North East and North Cumbria and enhance the specialist input with St Oswalds Hospice. GRID or equivalence training in Paediatric Palliative Care is desirable.
CHIPS are ambitious and innovative and are looking for a consultant colleague who can draw from experiences within the NHS and hospice settings, and work with national organisations such as the Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine to improve the care available to children across the North East and North Cumbria and contribute to raising both the local and national profile of the service.
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
The post will attract up to 10 programmed activities (7.0 CHIPS/3.0 St Oswalds). Within the 10PA job plan, appropriate time will be built in for SPA activity.
Planned activities will include home, hospital and hospice visits, complex case meetings, contributing to specialist team MDTs and developing links within the region; with community teams and inpatient specialist teams. In addition to this, it is expected that at least one consultant each day will be available for unplanned activities such as clinical consults and urgent requests.
On-call Duties:
0.25PA is included to cover weekend telephone advice 9am-5pm that occurs 1 in 5 weekends with CHIPS.
An availability supplement will be allocated to contribute to St Oswalds on call arrangements (up to 1 in 4 non-resident on call which can be combined with weekends providing telephone CHIPS advice).
Currently, there is no 24 hour advice line available for paediatric palliative care within our region, but with anticipated increase in funding it is expected that the successful applicant will contribute to an on call rota for specialist advice out of hours in the future.
Administrative:
The appointee will be expected to take a role in management and administration within the department.
Research:
The appointees help and involvement in current research within paediatric palliative medicine will be welcomed, and the development and extension of his/her own research fields will be encouraged. There is an opportunity for research to be supported within the job plan, and this can be discussed with the successful applicant if it is something that they are interested in pursuing.
The appointees will be expected to participate in audit and present data at palliative care service review meetings and at Directorate Clinical Governance Meetings.
Teaching and Education:
The appointee will be expected to contribute to undergraduate teaching and post-graduate teaching, and to the higher specialist training of registrars in paediatrics as a clinical and/or educational supervisor.
The appointee will participate in the delivery of palliative care education across the region, according to need, to enable local teams who are delivering palliative care to develop their knowledge and skill in this area.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
* Primary Medical Qualification
* Full GMC Registration
* Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
* MRCPCH
* Royal College-approved subspecialty training in paediatric palliative care (or equivalent standard)
* Higher Degree
* A post-graduate qualification in palliative care or evidence of postgraduate study in the specialty
* Advanced Communications Skills Training
Clinical Experience
* Evidence of experience in the specialty
* Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
* Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
* Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Management and Administration Experience
* Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
* Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
* An understanding of Clinical Governance
* Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
* Evidence of leadership / project management
* Evidence of having implemented change
* Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff
* Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
* Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
* Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
* Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
* Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
* Research/critical review of literature
* Publications in the last five years
Audit
* Evidence of participation in audit
* Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
* Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
Personal Attributes
* Alignment with the Trust's values
* Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
* Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
* A commitment to personal / unit CPD
* Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
* Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
* An ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
* Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure
* Ability to form constructive and effective professional relationships with patients and staff
* Supportive, tolerant and able to work within and MDT
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata
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