This is a replacement, permanent 8PA post which presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high quality, patient centered service in a supportive multidisciplinary team.
The post will cover both acute hospital inpatient work and work within community settings, ensuring patients can be seen and supported where ever they are.
The role involves delivering expert clinical care, providing specialist advice to healthcare professionals, participating in the on-call rota, and supporting the development of innovative services that enable patients to receive care closer to home.
The successful candidate will join a team of consultants in Palliative medicine supported by nurse specialists in both acute and community settings. There are opportunities to develop sub specialty interest where this contributes to and complements the department and Trusts' service needs. There are undergraduate & postgraduate education and research opportunities available.
To share with colleagues' responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Palliative Medicine department.
To provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to hospital inpatients in West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
To provide direct and indirect specialist Palliative Medicine advice and support to patients in the community, in conjunction with colleagues at St Nicholas Hospice Care
To provide Palliative Medicine consultant input within the community through joint working with other specialties and other providers
To develop and deliver palliative care education to health care professionals at all levels
To participate in the consultant telephone 2nd on call rota across Suffolk and Great Yarmouth & Waveney
To contribute to the planning and further development of palliative care services in the area and across the ICB
To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit
To fulfill obligations relating to continuing medical education, professional development, appraisal and revalidation and to keep up to date with new developments in the field of palliative medicine.
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We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
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