Locum Consultant in Palliative Care (SJM)
Posted 3 hours 19 minutes ago by NHS National Services Scotland
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To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once CESR is awarded. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
Applications are welcome for the above Fixed Term (1 year), part time (16 hours per week) post based in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
This is a Locum Palliative Medicine Consultant post (4PAs) to provide senior medical support and leadership within the NHS Lothian Hospital Palliative Care Service, primarily based at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh but the post holder could be expected to work at any of the NHS Lothian Hospital sites. There is no on-call commitment.
The post holder will provide a visible, accessible and dependable presence within the specialist Hospital Palliative Care Service to whom staff, patients and their families can turn to for expert advice and support.
The role also involves participation in the training and educational work of the specialist services, postgraduate teaching programmes and clinical supervision of resident medical staff (with specific emphasis on palliative medicine teaching for Internal Medicine Trainees (IMTs , undergraduate teaching programmes, specialty trainees and involvement in the management, quality improvement, clinical governance, research and development roles of the service.
Applicants must be fully registered with the GMC and hold a License to Practice and be on the GMC Specialist Register in Palliative Medicine or be eligible for inclusion on within 6 months. The post holder will be granted Honorary status as a Consultant at St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh and Marie Curie Hospice, Edinburgh and NHS Borders.
The appointee will have access to secretarial support, IT facilities and office accommodation.
The main aspects of the role will include:
- Provision of high quality, flexible and responsive palliative medicine to patients, families and carers, who have complex pain, symptom, spiritual or psychosocial needs which require specialist palliative care interventions
- To provide medical support and guidance to the multidisciplinary palliative care teams within the acute hospital setting
- Participation in and leadership of teaching and educational activities (students, health care professional colleagues, patients and families)
- Lead, implement and support clinical governance and quality improvement activities, implementation of best practice statements, Realistic Medicine and the National Framework for Palliative Care
- Contribution to service development in line with local and national strategies
- Working with colleagues to raise the profile of palliative medicine in the care of patients with all life-limiting illnesses
The job plan consists of:
- 4 PAs, 3 of which will be for direct clinical care, 1 of which will be for supporting professional activities including teaching, audit, CPD, management, attendance at meetings.
- Precise allocation of SPA time and associated objectives will be agreed with the successful applicant.
The post holder may be required to work flexibly across NHS Lothian in line with service requirements and therefore may be required to work at any of NHS Lothian's hospital sites.
Opportunities exist for the post holder to develop links with two well established palliative care research teams and the University of Edinburgh.
This job description is not exhaustive and will be accompanied by an agreed prospective job plan for the position of Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine.
More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.
For an informal discussion please contact:
Dr Abi Walton,
Dr Angela Bentley,
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