Specialty Doctor

Our hospice is 4 miles from Romford station, in beautiful countryside on the London-Essex border. We have 18 specialist palliative care beds and a busy community service, which includes a 24/7 helpline, Community CNS, medical and wide MDT visiting services. We see and support people with complex problems related to both advanced malignant and non-malignant conditions, frequently with multi morbidity. Main duties of the job We serve the population of Outer East London (Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham, Havering), near West Essex and Brentwood. Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is our local hospital Trust. We are a regional education centre, experienced in supporting doctors and others in training. The post holder will join a medical team of 2.4WTE Consultants, 1.6WTE Specialty Doctors and 2.4WTE GP trainees. The post holder will provide middle grade support to the hospice ward, with opportunity for community visiting dependant on experience. Development and career progression will be supported in line with the applicant's level of training/personal development goals. There is an on-call requirement, which involves weekend daytime ward rounds and admissions, with non-resident low intensity night cover. Postholders must be able to attend the hospice within 1 hour during non-resident on call periods.

Applicants must have completed their foundation years' training, with, ideally (but not exclusively) an additional 2 years + experience in relevant clinical practice (the additional 2 years + enabling eligibility for Specialty Doctor status).,

• Recognised basic medical degree and full GMC registration with license to practise
• Completion of UK Foundation Training OR evidence of competency equivalent to UK foundation training and at least 2 yrs full-time equivalent post foundation years' experience in relevant areas (e.g. GP/Medicine/Oncology/Neuro/Care of Elderly/A&E)
• Commitment to palliative care through recent (within 1 year) relevant CPD and relevant quality improvement project or audit and the mission/core values of Saint Francis Hospice
Desirable
• MRCP / MRCGP / FRCP or equivalent qualification (at point of starting post)
• Experience of working in specialist palliative care
• Experience of research relevant to specialist palliative or end of life care
  
  We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care. We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.