Specialty Doctor

Main duties of the job The specialty doctor will provide medical support to the hospice with a focus on caring for our inpatients, outpatients and community services. Successful applicants will be encouraged to take part in the continued professional development of the medical team and the wider multi-professional team. About the role: Your main responsibilities will include: Ensuring that patient care is of the highest quality and always delivered with compassion and respect. Responsibility for the evidence-based assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of medical care for in-patient, day service, and community patients. Demonstrating advanced empathetic interpersonal and communication skills in dealing with patients and carers through the patient experience. Managing referrals to the in-patient ward and the allocation of beds with the consultants and ward nurses. Managing referrals, as part of a integrated multi-disciplinary team, allocation and on-boarding and off-boarding to the

palliative virtual 10 bed ward. Under the direction of the Medical Director and working as a valued member of the clinical team, you will be responsible for the full medical care and advice for the Inpatient Unit, outpatients service and palliative virtual ward. In addition, we are an approved placement for medical students with University of Liverpool and GPST programme accredited by NHS England which you will have valuable involvement in. Please see job description for more details