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Locum Consultant - Palliative Care | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Posted today, 16 Mar
Job ref: f31a14c71fe549b4a20ddb8abbfc8197
Full Job Description
The Specialist Palliative Care Team at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity to join their team as they are seeking to appoint an additional Specialist Palliative Care Locum Consultant with a specific focus on inpatient work. The successful candidate will join a clinical team of 2 Consultant Colleagues, 1 WTE Band 8a Practice Development Nurse, 7.2 WTE Band 7 Specialist Nurses and 2 WTE Band 6 Specialist Nurses cross site.
The Specialist Palliative Care Team are based at both Luton and Dunstable Hospital and Bedford Hospital and support patients across the hospital sites, visiting patients on the wards when required. The post holder will provide consultant advice in palliative care to specialist nurses, specialty doctors, GPs, consultant colleagues in other specialties and other health care professionals within the hospital as required. The Specialist Palliative Care Team at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust work closely with all hospice services within the area.
· Provision with Consultant colleagues of a service to Luton and Dunstable Hospital with responsibility for providing and advising on Palliative Care within the hospital
· To develop and provide an outpatient clinic once a week
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.
Our Values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Bedfordshire Hospitals Foundation Trust is an anchor organisation in the BLMK Integrated Care System. The Bedfordshire Care Alliance (BCA) is a collaborative of health and care providers working across the county of Bedfordshire to reduce inequalities and drive up improvements in population health outcomes. The BCA and BLMK ICB have both identified palliative and end of life care as a priority area. There is a recognition across system partners that we need to improve how we coordinate our services and also how we work together to avoid crisis hospital admissions. The BCA working group is developing a new model of care with our hospice collaborative and community partner organisations to support development of a coordination service and Gold virtual ward as well as an unscheduled care hub to support calls before hospital conveyance.
This post holder will be key to shaping further developments and building a team of medical expertise to work across acute, community and hospice services.
We recognise that consultant posts require variety and a balance of work both specialist/ subspecialty interest. We are therefore keen that any new post holder develops their interest and contributes to patient care across different settings.
The trust aims to design and implement services, policies and measures that meet the diverse needs of our service, population and workforce, ensuring that none are placed at a disadvantage over others.
· To work with the palliative care team and wider team on Trust wide development of the palliative pathways
· To work with the Community Teams and the wider system
· To take part in research and education and looking at new ways to teach End of Life Care.
· Cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences
· Any responsibility, which relates to a special interest
· Participating in medical audit, the Trust's Clinical Governance processes and in CPD
· Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
The Specialist Palliative Care Team are based at both Luton and Dunstable Hospital and Bedford Hospital and support patients across the hospital sites, visiting patients on the wards when required. The post holder will provide consultant advice in palliative care to specialist nurses, specialty doctors, GPs, consultant colleagues in other specialties and other health care professionals within the hospital as required. The Specialist Palliative Care Team at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust work closely with all hospice services within the area.
· Provision with Consultant colleagues of a service to Luton and Dunstable Hospital with responsibility for providing and advising on Palliative Care within the hospital
· To develop and provide an outpatient clinic once a week
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.
Our Values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Bedfordshire Hospitals Foundation Trust is an anchor organisation in the BLMK Integrated Care System. The Bedfordshire Care Alliance (BCA) is a collaborative of health and care providers working across the county of Bedfordshire to reduce inequalities and drive up improvements in population health outcomes. The BCA and BLMK ICB have both identified palliative and end of life care as a priority area. There is a recognition across system partners that we need to improve how we coordinate our services and also how we work together to avoid crisis hospital admissions. The BCA working group is developing a new model of care with our hospice collaborative and community partner organisations to support development of a coordination service and Gold virtual ward as well as an unscheduled care hub to support calls before hospital conveyance.
This post holder will be key to shaping further developments and building a team of medical expertise to work across acute, community and hospice services.
We recognise that consultant posts require variety and a balance of work both specialist/ subspecialty interest. We are therefore keen that any new post holder develops their interest and contributes to patient care across different settings.
The trust aims to design and implement services, policies and measures that meet the diverse needs of our service, population and workforce, ensuring that none are placed at a disadvantage over others.
· To work with the palliative care team and wider team on Trust wide development of the palliative pathways
· To work with the Community Teams and the wider system
· To take part in research and education and looking at new ways to teach End of Life Care.
· Cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences
· Any responsibility, which relates to a special interest
· Participating in medical audit, the Trust's Clinical Governance processes and in CPD
· Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
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