Overview
Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team
Consultant in Palliative Medicine
6.5 PA permanent We are seeking a substantive community consultant in Palliative Medicine for the South Camden and Islington Community Palliative Care Team.
This post sits within the Camden, Islington and UCLH Palliative Care Service. Doctors on the specialist register for SPC or due to CCT within 6 months are welcome to apply. There are on call duties aligned to this post.
AAC: to be confirmed
Main duties of the job
Medical consultants within the Service work primarily within the South Camden and Islington community palliative care service, and in addition to clinical care, each are closely involved with strategic development and service improvement, as well as the advancement of relationships with key colleagues. The aims of the post are to provide an efficient and responsive clinical service to the community patients requiring supportive and palliative care; the post holder will join a team of 3 community consultants (2 medical, 1 nursing) to develop relationships and improve the care of patients and provide cross clinical cover within other areas of the specialist palliative care service (including the UCLH hospital palliative care team). This is a substantive consultant role of 6.5 PAs. All DCC are within the community setting with on call across both community and hospital.
* Provide clinical care to patients and those important to them within South Camden and Islington (small part of Westminster). This includes visiting patients alone or jointly in their place of residence, providing telephone advice to other team members and other professionals, and conducting regular caseload reviews with the Clinical Nurse/Paramedic Specialists. The post holder will work closely with all colleagues in the team, as well as colleagues within the wider service and throughout the Trust, and will liaise with professionals within the community - GPs, Community Nursing and other specialist Teams (e.g. Respiratory, Learning difficulties, Heart Failure, Dementia etc), and within St Pancras Hospital (St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit, Camden Virtual Ward etc) as well as neighbouring hospitals as needed.
* Provide clinical cross cover for SPC consultants in the service who work in UCLH as needed.
* Work closely with the clinical lead for the service Dr Rasha Al-Qurainy, as well as the leads for the community team.
* Represent Palliative Care at relevant clinical and strategic meetings (e.g. NCL Specialist Palliative Care provider group, PallE8, GP Multidisciplinary meetings, Camden cross community meetings).
* Attend and contribute to the community specialist palliative care MDT meeting each week.
* Provide clinical supervision and educational supervision to trainees working within the team, as well as educational support and teaching to members of the nursing team undertaking advanced practice (e.g. non-medical prescribing, physical assessment) and to visitors to the team.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications And Training
Essential criteria
* Primary Medical Degree
* Approved Clinician status
* Full GMC Registration with a Licence to Practice
* Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Palliative Medicine through CCT, Portfolio Pathway (CESR), REQ, or RSQ routes.
Desirable criteria
* An additional postgraduate qualification of relevance to the work
Personal Skills & Qualities
Essential criteria
* Excellent communication and empathic skills
* The highest ethical and professional standards
* Demonstrable leadership skills
* Ability to work under pressure
* Ability to both lead and be led as part of a team
* Be skilled at encouraging and giving feedback
* Ability to work on own initiative
* Enthusiasm to work within a changing environment
Experience, Skills And Abilities
Essential criteria
* Excellent skills in specialist palliative care
* Proven ability to efficiently manage patients with complex physical, psychological, spiritual and social problems and to respond sensitively to the needs of carers
* Proven ability to work well within a multidisciplinary team and support others to flourish
* Proven ability to lead clinical care across professional and organisational boundaries
* Ability to work with sensitivity within a multicultural society
* An understanding of the principles and practical applications of clinical governance systems, education, quality improvement
* Understanding of the drivers influencing NHS and commercial health care providers and current and proposed national organisational changes
* Ability and commitment to teach in a clinical and academic setting
* Ability to design effective teaching
* Ability and commitment to teaching various clinical disciplines
* Ability to act as a consistent reference point in a team and to take a leadership role
* Ability to prioritise workload, to delegate responsibilities as appropriate
Desirable criteria
* Ability to support advanced practitioners from other professional groups develop new skill
* Higher qualification in medical education
* Completed training to be a clinical and or educational supervisor
* Proven experience of management in a clinical area
* Experience working with user led groups to enhance service delivery
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