Consultant in Palliative Medicine

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large, friendly and proactive Palliative Medicine Department at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. You will join a team of 10 Palliative medicine consultants based between Royal Derby Hospitals (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB) who provide services at the associated community hospitals. The Specialist Palliative Care team, at UHDB provides support to patients and families in a variety of settings.

• Nightingale Macmillan Unit (NMU) (21 bed specialist palliative care inpatient unit)
• Ward 2 (15 bed palliative care ward providing end of life care)
• Hospital Palliative Care Team
• Community Palliative Care Team for Southern Derbyshire
• End of Life Care education team (hospital and community)
The successful candidate will work within the consultant team in the Nightingale Macmillan Unit and will have the opportunity to provide a weekly outpatient clinic. The Palliative Medicine Consultant team have a flexible approach to our areas ofpracticeand the candidate will have opportunities to work in and lead other areas of the service over their career to ensure a broad experience and career development. The successful candidate will be expected to take part in a 1 in 10 on-call rota, contribute to the education programme, quality improvement activities and clinical supervision of junior doctors who work within the service. This is a part time post, 8.3 PAMain duties of the job o Work with the wider Palliative Medicine team to support in-patients with symptom control, decision making for treatments and onward planning for discharge. o To work on the Nightingale Macmillan Inpatient Unit providing specialist Palliative Care to patients. o Conduct an outpatient clinic for Palliative Medicine patients o To be a senior member of the inpatient multi-disciplinary team. o To act as supervision and support for resident doctors and medical students. o At specified times, be a point of contact for calls to the department for advice and referral, with awareness of bed states to ensure patients are cared for in the most appropriate place. o To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit. o To undertake continuing professional development (CPD) and comply with requirements for appraisal and revalidation. o To work to achieve personal, departmental and Trust objectives. o The post-holder will take part in the out of hours consultant on call rota. o Contribute to leadership, management and service development of the wider Palliative Medicine department.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer: o Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership developmento On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.o A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes Key Facts about our Trust: o We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.o We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.o An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.o Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.o Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.o We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.o We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.