Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 13 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-R2R-2263
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Garden House Hospice
- Town
- Letchworth
- Salary
- £38,619 - £57,570 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Palliative Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
The successful applicant will be a part of the Medical Team, which is led by the Medical Director and includes two permanent and one fixed term speciality doctors and a bank medical team that supports with staffing the out of hours rota. Additionally, Garden House Hospice Care has a Band 8 Specialist Pharmacist, who works across both Hospice and Hospital settings. Fitting with the Hospice’s strong ethos of supporting training and education, the Hospice currently has three GP Trainee placement slots, to increase to four from August 2024.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be provided with a shared office, computer, internet access and secretarial support.
The successful applicant will be employed by the East and North Herts NHS Trust but will work entirely at Garden House Hospice Care. The pay scale for this post is currently £38,619 to £57,570 per annum. Your salary will be calculated based on previous experience.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will join Garden House Hospice Care, (GHHC) at a very exciting time. Since January 2024, GHHC started an innovative service to support patients with moderate to severe frailty and two or more long term conditions, who would benefit from our services. This service has been featured on the BBC news and radio and GHHC has been invited to give a presentation at the Hospice UK Annual Conference. To support this service for life limited frail patients, previously underserved by palliative care, GHHC increased inpatient and community beds and staffing, including appointing an in-reach nurse. The frailty in-reach nurse’s role is to identify suitable patients at the Lister Hospital, working collaboratively with the Lister Hospital teams.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for general medicine
Desirable criteria
- MSc, MD or further higher qualification
Standards
Essential criteria
- Good clinical care
- Maintaining good medical practice
- Good relationships and communication with patients
- Good working relationships with colleagues
- Good teaching and training
- Professional behaviour and probity
- Delivery of good clinical care
- Training and expertise in adult and children’s safeguarding
Clinical skills and experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to take responsibility for clinical care of patients with understanding around when to seek support from a senior
- Displays sound clinical judgement & exercises sound clinical risk management
- High level of communication skills with an empathetic, caring approach to patients and families
- Formulate individualised patient management plans for patients
- Basic life support skills
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in palliative medicine
Commitment to clinical governance
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the importance of clinical governance and quality improvement with a track record of engaging in clinical governance, audit and quality improvement work
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems; ability to critically appraise published evidence
Desirable criteria
- Audit or research presentations at national meetings
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Some experience of teaching within the healthcare setting either formal or informal
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Bell
- Job title
- Medical Director, Garden House Hospice Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 314333
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