Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This post is jointly funded through NHS specialist commissioning and St Oswalds 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 Oswalds Hospice. GRID or equivalence training in Paediatric Palliative Care is desirable., Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Clinical:
The post will attract up to 10 programmed activities (7.0 CHIPS/3.0 St Oswalds'). Within the 10PA 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:
0.25PA 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 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.

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. Less than full time applications will also be considered.

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.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee., Disability Confident
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