Specialist Palliative Care is an essential and high profile field at UHL. The department works to build strong relationships with every specialty at the Trust, working collaboratively to ensure high quality palliative care is delivered as needed to patients, irrespective of their diagnosis. A seven day a week, 09:00 - 17:00, face to face service is delivered by the nursing team alongside a Consultant on call 24/7. Within the team there are three CNS non-medical prescribers with an aim to expand this number annually. As well as specialty registrars, the hospital team also includes CMT and IMT doctors and will expand to include FY2 doctors from August 2024.
A 1-in-10 second on call service is worked by the hospital and hospice consultants managing hospital, hospice and community palliative care patients, predominantly by telephone support. With appointment to these new posts, the frequency will change up to a 1-in-13 rota. This is compensated as per national contractual arrangements, by at least a 3% supplement. Any agreed or emergency additional work is compensated via time off in lieu.
• Contribute to the delivery of high quality specialist palliative care advice, management and support to patients, families, carers and the wider clinical teams within UHL.
• Participation in the daily clinical board round with the Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialists.
• Share responsibility for Consultant Palliative Care provision in the areas in which you work, particularly at your base site.
• Share responsibility for discussions about and documentation of preferences and priorities for care and treatments, as part of advance care planning and the ReSPECT process.
• Offer provision of specialist support and/or second Consultant opinion for complex ethical cases relevant to palliative care.
• Participate in undergraduate teaching duties alongside clinical service delivery
• Contribute to the Consultant non-resident on call rota.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
• Contribute to the delivery of high quality specialist palliative care advice, management and support to patients, families, carers and the wider clinical teams within UHL.
• Participation in the daily clinical board round with the wider Specialist Palliative Care Clinical team.
• Share responsibility for Consultant Palliative Care provision in the areas in which you work, particularly at your base site.
• Lead clinician for specialist palliative care at LGH
• Share responsibility for discussions about and documentation of preferences and priorities for care and treatments, as part of advance care planning and the ReSPECT process.
• Offer provision of specialist support and/or second Consultant opinion for complex ethical cases relevant to palliative care.
• Participate in undergraduate teaching duties alongside clinical service delivery
• Full contribution to the Consultant non-resident second on call rota
• Cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences
• Participate in service development and business planning in collaboration with the other Consultants in the department, the CMG and local GPs and commissioners within the local CCGs as part of the plan to deliver more integrated care across LLR. This includes working with UHL as part of ‘Becoming The Best’ and through cross sector service development work across all local health care settings.
• Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures.
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally.
• Participating in medical audit, the Trust’s Clinical Governance processes and in CPD – time for CPD is provided in job plans and attendance at audit and other governance meetings is mandatory; Managerial, including budgetary responsibilities where appropriate and compliance with standing orders and standing financial instructions of the Trust .
• Respond in a timely fashion to legitimate requests from Trust officers – this might include investigations of incidents or complaints.
• Participate in teaching and training of junior staff and other clinical staff groups. The appointee will also have supervision responsibilities for junior medical staff within the specialty but not as a named educational supervisor initially although with expansion of the number of postgraduate doctors in training in the palliative care team, there may be opportunities for this.
• Participate in professional continuing medical education; study leave is provided for this purpose.
• Undertake the Trust Corporate and Directorate specific Induction and competency Programmes appropriate to role.
• Maintain their continuing professional development (CPD) to be able to successfully revalidate. As per the Trust requirement the successful candidate will be required to have annual appraisal and attend / keep fully up to date with statutory and mandatory training as stipulated.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025