Main area: Paediatric Palliative Care
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (on-call)
Job ref: 411-MED-24-6750502
Employer: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: per annum
Closing: 26/11/2024 23:59
Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites. Our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. Our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trust's values and behaviours. At Alder Hey, we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
* Great flexible working opportunities
* Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
We are looking for a compassionate individual to fill this exciting and challenging position and work as a specialist consultant to deliver high quality palliative and end of life care to children and young people aged 0-19 years, and bereavement care to their families. The role will give the successful candidate the opportunity to work in a stand-alone paediatric hospital alongside a variety of paediatric specialty services caring for children with identified palliative care needs.
Patient care is provided in a variety of settings including the home, hospices or in a hospital. The consultant will need to work closely and foster good relationships with all members of the child’s multi-disciplinary team and with colleagues from health, social care, education and the charity sector.
The post holder will be a specialty-trained consultant or have equivalent training as assessed by the RCPCH.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the delivery of specialist palliative care by working as part of the Specialist Palliative Care Team (SPCT), based at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The SPCT supports children who have palliative care needs and their families, from referral through to the end of life, discharge or transition.
* Support for end of life decision making, including preferred place of death.
* Rapid discharge for end of life care, including fast track to hospice or home.
* Specialist medical support for hospices, acute trusts, community palliative care teams, and tertiary centres.
* Informing & educating colleagues and families on the death and dying process.
* Identifying complex grief and those at ‘high risk’ with signposting/referral to appropriate local and/or specialist bereavement services.
Alder Hey serves as a teaching hospital to the University of Liverpool. All consultants are expected to take part in undergraduate teaching. Support is available to enable new consultants to deliver Level Two training.
Provide education and training in children’s palliative care at all levels. It is expected that the post holder will teach nurses, postgraduate training of doctors including SPIN and GRID, and teaching to paediatric departments in the region.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Proposed job plan
This post attracts 10 programmed activities per week. There may be the opportunity to discuss and review this with the clinical director.
The job plan for the first three months will be based on a provisional/indicative timetable. A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Clinical Director within three months of the commencement date of the appointee.
Person specification
Education and Training
* On the GMC’s Specialist Register for Paediatric Palliative Medicine OR evidence of equivalent training provided by RCPCH CSAC.
* Primary medical degree
* CCT or within 6 months of CCT (or equivalent)
* Higher Degree e.g. MSc, MD, PhD in Paediatrics
* DCH, DCCH, MBA or other relevant diplomas
* Teaching qualification
Experience
* Demonstrates having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training.
* Experience working in NHS.
* Experience working in a hospice and with other voluntary sector organisations.
* Wider experience, research, and training, in providing subspecialty service.
Knowledge & Skills
* Teaching skills and experience
* Ability to supervise the clinical work of doctors in training and other staff.
* Oral and written communication skills in English
* Experience in complex clinical situations e.g. ethical dilemmas, mediation and legal aspects of healthcare delivery
* Mental capacity act training.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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