Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care

This post is jointly funded through NHS specialist commissioning and St Oswald's Hospice. It has been created to strengthen both the CHIPS specialist palliative care provision across the North East and North Cumbria and enhance the specialist input with St Oswald's hospice. We are seeking people who have undertaken GRID or equivalence training in Paediatric Palliative Care.
CHIPS are ambitious and innovative and are looking for a consultant colleague who can draw from experiences within NHS and hospice settings, and work with national organisations such as the Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine to improve the care available to children across the North East and North Cumbria and contribute to raising both the local and national profile of the service.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Jane Boyle (Acting head of service, CHIPS) on or via email [email protected] or Dr Jo Elverson (Consultant in palliative medicine St Oswald's/CHIPS) via email [email protected]., The post will attract up to 10 programmed activities (7.0 CHIPS / 3.0 St Oswald's). Within the 10 PA job plan, appropriate time will be built in for SPA activity.
Planned activities will include home, hospital and hospice visits, complex case meetings, contributing to specialist team MDTs and developing links within the region; with community teams and inpatient specialist teams. In addition to this, it is expected that at least one consultant each day will be available for unplanned activities such as clinical consults and urgent requests.
On-call Duties:
0.25 PA is included to cover weekend telephone advice 9am-5pm that occurs 1 in 5 weekends with CHIPS.
An availability supplement will be allocated to contribute to St Oswald's on call arrangements (up to 1 in 4 non-resident on call which can be combined with weekends providing telephone CHIPS advice).
Currently there is no 24 hour advice line available for paediatric palliative care within our region, but with anticipated increase in funding it is expected that the successful applicant will contribute to an on call rota for specialist advice out of hours in the future.
Administrative:
The appointee will be expected to take a role in management and administration within the department.
Research:
The appointee's help and involvement in current research within paediatric palliative medicine will be welcomed, and the development and extension of his/her own research fields will be encouraged. There is an opportunity for research to be supported within the job plan, and this can be discussed with the successful applicant if it is something that they are interested in pursuing.
The appointees will be expected to participate in audit and present audit data at palliative care service review meetings and at Directorate Clinical Governance Meetings.
Teaching and education:
The appointee will be expected to contribute to undergraduate teaching and post-graduate teaching, and to the higher specialist training of registrars in paediatrics as a clinical and/or educational supervisor.
The appointee will participate in the delivery of palliative care education across the region, according to need, to enable local teams who are delivering palliative care to develop their knowledge and skill in this area.
Miscellaneous:
The successful candidate will be expected on occasion to travel to any location across the North East and North Cumbria. Car sharing is encouraged and mileage is paid.
Office space, personal computer, teleconference facilities and secretarial assistance will be provided at the GNCH site. Team members will be equipped with phone and laptop as needed to facilitate work off-site when travelling. Office space, IT access and secretarial assistance will also be provided at the St Oswald's site

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a full time (10PA) Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care Medicine.
This is a new clinical post, designed to support the continuing development of our clinical service. This is an exciting opportunity to join our very well-regarded CHIPS (Children's Holistic integrated Palliative care Service) team and further development of paediatric palliative care across the North East and North Cumbria. Applicants must be willing to work in a dynamic and creative way to support patients and local teams throughout the region.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

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