We are looking for a Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join our Hospice Day Care Unit and Outpatient Services.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a team of consultants, providing specialist palliative care to patients predominantly in the hospice DCU and Outpatients. The post will also require occasional palliative care reviews of hospital patients, in addition to cross-covering the community and the IPU to ensure adequate clinical cover for the service is maintained when colleagues are on leave.
• Work collaboratively with all other team members and provide clinical support to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• Attend the weekly DCU MDT meeting and take responsibility for decisions about patients.
• Agree and arrange safe admissions and discharges of patients to and from the Hospice in line with local policy when covering the IPU
• Ensure that comprehensive plans are made and recorded for each in-patient prior to the weekend in both their clinical record and the handover sheet
• Participate in a non-resident telephone on-call service providing advice in-patient and community services and supporting the in-patient telephone advice line. On-call duties are shared between the three Consultants and are also supported through an external provider as a consultant telephone on call rota.
• Act as a key member of the Senior Management Team, liaising with the Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Director, Assistant Director of Nursing – Hospice, Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Hospice Heads of Departments and other staff members, ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach to palliative care

For more information, contact Ronak Jain on +44(0) 203 411 5531 or email on ronak@permanenthire.co.uk