Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant in Palliative Medicine
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Palliative Medicine to join our specialist palliative care services within Central Lancashire.
This is a substantive (0.8 WTE) consultant post within the hospital specialist palliative care service at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder would be part of a dynamic team that includes 6 consultants delivering specialist palliative care across Central Lancashire within hospital, community, and hospice settings. The post includes participation in a 1:6 on-call rota providing consultant advice (2nd on call) to specialist palliative care services based at St Catherine’s Hospice and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
The Post Holder Will
- Provide specialist palliative medical advice and clinical input within the Trust.
- Provide clinical support to the Palliative Care CNS team through MDT meeting input, telephone advice, and joint reviews within inpatient clinical settings.
- Provide Specialist Palliative Care representation at cancer site/non-cancer disease-specific multidisciplinary meetings.
- Complete administration duties associated with this post’s provision of Specialist Palliative Care.
- Work collaboratively with the Clinical Director for Palliative Care, Lead Nurse in Palliative and End of life Care, Hospice Medical Director, existing consultants, and Hospice leadership teams to provide clinical, operational, and strategic leadership.
- Provide leadership around clinical audit and quality improvement and other governance activities.
- Participate in the bi-monthly Specialist Palliative Care Directorate business meetings.
- Provide supervision and clinical support for trainees in specialist palliative medicine and other medical staff in the palliative care team.
- Support the delivery of multi-professional education and training alongside the End-of-Life care educator at LTHTR.
- Provide cross cover for consultant colleagues where necessary across the hospital, community, and hospice services.
- Support the delivery of palliative care services out of hours by participating in a 1 in 6 non-residential on-call rota.
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an acute trust in the North West with all major specialties. We are the tertiary center for Lancashire and South Cumbria for neurosciences, renal medicine, oncology, plastic surgery, and burns. Undergraduate medical student teaching commenced here in 2003 and considerable opportunities exist for research and development which are integral to Teaching Hospital status. There are two main hospital sites: Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital.
Lancashire is an attractive area to live and has many facilities available locally with easy access to the beauty of the Lake District and excellent road & rail links with the rest of the mainland UK including Manchester and Liverpool airports.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr. Kate Stewart
- Job title: Clinical Director in Palliative Medicine
- Email address: katherine.stewart@lthtr.nhs.uk
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