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This is an exciting opportunity to play a senior clinical role within our Specialist Palliative Care Home Team, supporting patients, families, carers and community professionals to deliver high-quality, person-centred end-of-life care. You will also contribute to hospice research, quality improvement, education, governance and service development. Working within the Specialist Palliative Care Home Team, you will provide senior medical leadership and expert clinical care to patients in the community. You will advise on and lead complex symptom management, advance care planning, treatment escalation planning and support for patients and families. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams across primary care, secondary care, social care and the voluntary sector. You will also support the twice-monthly outpatient Pain Management Group alongside the Consultant Anaesthetist and Psychological Therapist, and take a lead role in developing the hospice's research, evaluation and quality improvement agenda.
Job Responsibility
Assess and manage complex physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms in community settings
Provide clinical support and advice to GPs, district nurses, care home staff and community teams
Lead and support advance care planning, DNACPR discussions and treatment escalation planning
Work closely with the Specialist Palliative Care Home Team Lead to develop and strengthen the service
Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences, governance activity and clinical education
Lead and promote research, audit, evaluation and quality improvement across the hospice
Support resident doctors, hospice staff and external healthcare professionals through teaching and clinical supervision
Contribute to the second on-call rota shared across the hospice, CUH and RPH
Requirements
Full GMC registration
CCT/CESR or Specialist Registration in Palliative Medicine, or be within six months of achieving this at interview