Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) and Wakefield Hospice are looking for a dynamic enthusiastic consultant to join the specialist palliative care team working across both community and hospice sites. This is a fixed term locum post and the successful candidate will work with the trust specialist palliative care team to provide services across the hospital and community and with the multidisciplinary team at Wakefield Hospice to provide inpatient and day therapy services. It is expected that the successful candidate will take a role in community services and there is flexibility in the existing consultant team to enable pursuit of the successful candidates personal areas of interest. The post holder will work in a team of 5 consultants and 13 clinical nurse specialists who provide cross cover and support. MYTT end of life care services were rated as good in our last CQC visit. The multidisciplinary community team see approximately 1000 referrals per year and the Wakefield Hospice admits approximately 300 patients per year. The post holder will have the opportunity to work at a locality level as part of a collaborative end of life care partnership group improving co-ordination of care of patients in the last year of life.,

• Support for the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team with both joint and independent review of patients.
• Support for Gold Standards Framework meetings in primary care where appropriate.
• Community team MDT weekly
• Cancer of unknown primary MDT
• One in eight week consultant on call providing telephone advice to health care professionals across Pontefract, Wakefield, Kirklees, Huddersfield and Calderdale. (Currently assessed as 0.75 PA per week plus 5% category A on call). In the event of sickness or absence for the first on call at any of the hospice units the responsibility to find alternative cover is held by the unit and not the second on call consultant.
• Administrative duties, for which appropriate office space and secretarial support is provided
• Supporting Professional Activities in accordance with the Trust Framework, with at least a minimum of 1.5 SPAs included in the core 10PA timetable. Core SPA includes audit and governance. Additional SPA or DCC time may be commissioned in line with the skills of the successful candidate and changing requirements of the service.
Hospice
• Twice weekly ward rounds of hospice inpatients
• Weekly MDT
• Clinical supervision for FY2/ IMT trainees at the hospice and specialist registrar on both sites if applicable and candidate has appropriate training. Training can be supported in post.
  
  We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.