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Specialty Doctor in Palliative Medicine

East Cheshire Hospice · Macclesfield, SK10 3DR

Salary: £63696.00 to £102689.00 p.a.
Location: Macclesfield, SK10 3DR

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Job description

About East Cheshire Hospice

East Cheshire Hospice is an independent

charity providing specialist palliative and end of life care across East

Cheshire and the surrounding area. Services include a 15-bed Inpatient Unit,

the Sunflower Living Well Centre, Hospice at Home, bereavement support and

PACE (Palliative Advice Centre East), which provides specialist palliative

care advice, coordination and support across 7 days. We work with NHS,

primary care, community, care home and other partners, supported by shared

electronic clinical records. The combination of specialist inpatient care,

responsive community-facing support, multidisciplinary working, with a strong

commitment to education gives the post holder the opportunity to influence

care both within the hospice and across the wider local health and care

system.

Job Purpose

To provide high-quality, compassionate and

person-centred specialist palliative care as part of the multidisciplinary

team. The Specialty Doctor will work within the Inpatient Unit and

contribute, where required, to outpatient, wellbeing and community-facing

services, including PACE and other initiatives. The role includes medical

first on-call duties, education, clinical governance, quality improvement,

clinical leadership and service development. The post offers an opportunity

for an experienced doctor to develop their practice in palliative medicine

within a supportive learning environment, while contributing to the continued

development of specialist palliative care across East Cheshire.

Key Working Relationships

Medical Director, hospice medical

team, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and nursing colleagues.

Therapy, psychosocial,

spiritual care, pharmacy and other multidisciplinary colleagues.

GP Specialty Trainees, resident

doctors and other learners.

Consultants and the

Specialist Palliative Care Team at East Cheshire NHS Trust.

General practitioners,

community services, care homes, hospital teams and wider system partners.

3. Principle duties and responsibilities:

This list is not exhaustive

3.1 Clinical

care

Assess, diagnose, treat and

review patients with advanced progressive illness and complex palliative care

needs.

Provide day-to-day medical

care, including admissions, ward rounds, handovers, multidisciplinary reviews

and care planning.

Assess and manage pain and

other physical, psychological and holistic needs within competence.

Lead sensitive discussions

about prognosis, uncertainty, goals of care, treatment escalation,

cardiopulmonary resuscitation and preferred place of care or death.

Prescribe, review and

deprescribe medicines safely, undertake relevant clinical procedures within

competence and arrange investigations or referral when required.

Maintain clear, timely

clinical records and complete death certification and associated

documentation in accordance with legal and local requirements.

Recognise personal limits

and seek senior or specialist advice appropriately.

3.2 Collaborative

and community-facing care

Work with hospice and

external colleagues to provide coordinated, holistic care and safe transfer

between services.

Participate in relevant

hospice and wider specialist palliative care multidisciplinary meetings.

Provide and review medical

advice and support to hospice colleagues and, within competence, to

healthcare professionals in primary care, community, care home and hospital

settings.

Contribute to PACE and other

community-facing services, supporting timely decisions, coordination,

escalation and referral.

Support the development of

responsive, integrated specialist palliative care across East Cheshire.

3.3 On-call

responsibilities

Participate

in the non-resident medical first on-call rota, with a share of weekday

nights, weekends and bank holidays. Duties include telephone advice, clinical

decision-making and attendance at the hospice when clinically required. The

post holder will work within agreed escalation arrangements and access senior

support where appropriate.

3.4 Education, professional development, governance and quality

improvement

Teach and support GP

Specialty trainees, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and other healthcare

professionals, undertaking formal supervision only when appropriately

trained.

Participate in appraisal,

revalidation, continuing professional development and mandatory training.

Maintain appropriate medical

indemnity relevant to the role.

Contribute to clinical

audit, quality improvement, service evaluation, policy development, incident

learning and research where appropriate.

Promote evidence-based

practice, patient safety, openness and organisational learning.

Work in accordance with

safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act, information governance and other relevant

legal, ethical and professional requirements.

Support clinical leadership,

service planning and improvement, and promote a respectful, inclusive and

supportive team culture.

General Responsibilities

Work in accordance with Good

Medical Practice, as set out by the GMC, and all relevant Hospice policies

and procedures.

Maintain confidentiality and

promote equality, diversity, inclusion, dignity and respect.

Comply with safeguarding,

infection prevention and control, health and safety and medicines-management

requirements.

Demonstrate commitment to

the hospices values and charitable purpose and undertake other appropriate

duties agreed with the Medical Director.

This

job description outlines the principal responsibilities of the role. The post

holder will be expected to work flexibly and reasonably in response to

changing service needs. The job description may be reviewed with the post

holder to reflect service development, contractual requirements or

organisational change.