We require an expert clinician to support a Specialist Palliative Medicine consultant position. The postholder will have the ability to inspire and support a developing hospital Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) service and a community SPC Hospice team. With the help and direction of the executive and clinical leaders the successful applicant will ensure that we continue to provide high quality care to patients and their families.
This is a substantive post (10 programmed activities) which is based at ULTH. The post holder will be employed by United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and line managed via St Barnabas Hospice. It is essential that the postholder has private residence within thirty minutes travelling time of St Barnabas hospice IPU due to on call commitments.
The all-embracing nature of specialist palliative care as a countywide service results in a complex and lengthy explanation of the interrelated services and providers that address the needs of the patients and commissioners.
It is expected that the consultant appointed to this post will have a major role in the clinical leadership and delivery of quality patient care for the acute trust in Lincolnshire. This post is primarily supporting the acute trust with direct clinical care reviews, clinical leadership, quality improvement, education and multidisciplinary team support. SBH community services are delivered geographically, and this post also supports the Lincoln and surrounding areas community hospice team. Supervision and support will come from the Medical Director at St Barnabas Hospice (SBH).
A focus on “front door” or proactive palliative care in the acute trust using a quality improvement approach would support both the system and organisational objectives.
SBH delivers specialist palliative care services across Lincolnshire, supporting both the acute sector and the community services. Within those areas, other organisations including independent and charitable providers as well as specialist services established in the community and hospitals contribute to delivering care. The successful applicant will be able to support cross organisational SPC working.
The job will include liaising with and teaching nursing staff, health care assistants, therapists and other members of the multidisciplinary team. It will also include teaching medical students rotating through the ward, teaching and appraising FY and ST trainees and SpRs on rotation at the Hospital.
Thank you for your interest in this exciting role within Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH).
Our combined Trusts are some of the most complex NHS organisations in the country, with multiple sites across a predominantly rural and coastal location. In common with many NHS organisations, we are faced with growing demand for our services at a time when our models of care and our estates are stretched. We take extraordinary pride in building working environments where staff feel valued, cared for and part of a team. We are delighted this can be seen within the latest National Staff Survey results showing sustained and improved scores from both organisations.
LCHG adopted a vision of "Caring and building a healthier future for all" and three values to show what we stand for, how we want to be known and how we behave. Our Values: 'Compassionate, Collaborative and Innovative' represent how we identify, the beliefs that motivate us, and what is important to us as a Group and underpin the behaviours that we want to be accountable to uphold, and to hold others in our Group accountable for. Ultimately, these are the foundations upon which we are building the Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group to build a better, healthier future for our patients and people.
- Engage locally and regionally in the strategic and operational delivery of excellent palliative and end of life care in Lincolnshire
- Engage in key strategic relationships and partnerships that support service developments and ensuring organisational aims are met
- To consider new partnerships with clinical teams to benefit patient care
- Support the delivery of key elements of the St Barnabas clinical strategy
- Support the delivery of key elements of ULTH strategy
- As a consultant member of the medical team, manage a clinical caseload and contribute to the delivery of palliative and end of life care across a range of settings
- Show leadership and support to ensure the quality of care provided is measured and consistently high
- Participate in ULTH’s appraisal and revalidation process ensuring all appropriate CPD, quality improvement, patient and colleague feedback is evidenced as per the national requirements.
- Take a leadership approach to the delivery of SPC education in the acute trust and wider across the system
- Contribute to quality improvement and research
- Provide guidance on ethical issues related to patient care
- Contribute to the development of innovative approaches to the delivery of specialist palliative care across all care boundaries
