Specialty Doctor in Palliative Medicine

There is opportunity to develop clinical and non-clinical skills through protected study time, education meetings, teaching experience and audit, and opportunity to gain experience in the other areas of the service., + To provide daily care and management of patients on NMU
+ Administrative tasks relating to patient care
+ Weekend working on the Nightingale Macmillan Unit
+ Supervision of junior doctors
+ Teaching and education as part of the Palliative Medicine Education Department
+ Active participation in Clinical Governance, audit and research activities.
+ Keeping up to date and participating in relevant Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
+ Participation in annual appraisals

Candidates need full GMC registration with a licence to practice, a minimum of 4 years' post-qualification experience including experience in Palliative Medicine or a specialty including palliative care.

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
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.
With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.
As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.
The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it's important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities.
Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.
Here's more about the role and what we're looking for, This is an exciting opportunity to join the Palliative Medicine team at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton as a Specialty Doctor.
The Specialist Palliative Care Service supports patients and their companions in a variety of settings. The department has a 20-bed specialist in-patient Nightingale Macmillan Unit (NMU); a Hospital Palliative Care Team at Royal Derby Hospital and Queens Hospital, Burton; a Community Palliative Care Team; an Enhanced Nursing Home Beds for Palliative Care Service providing extra palliative care to nursing home placements; Ward 2, a general palliative care ward for people who are likely to be living the last weeks of their lives, at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital; and an End of Life Care Facilitator team.
The post is less than full time (0.8 WTE) with 1 weekend a month working Saturday and Sunday 9am to 3pm.
The successful candidate will be based on NMU providing holistic, person-centred inpatient care, as part of a specialist Multi-Disciplinary Team., Working for our organisation
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:
+ Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
+ On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
+ Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
+ We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
+ We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
+ An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
+ Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
+ Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
+ We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
+ We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
+ UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff., At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.
For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working - working partly in the trust/partly at home.
Why don't you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what's possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.
We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.
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