Consultant in Palliative Medicine x 3

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for 3 substantive Consultant in Palliative Medicine posts at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford. We are seeking enthusiastic, experienced individuals to join the well established, consultant led specialist palliative care services in Bradford. The 3 jobs cover three different services: hospital palliative care with an interest in undergraduate medical education, the Marie Curie Hospice inpatient unit with a special interest in MND and an innovative new post leading Marie Curie REACT (responsive emergency assessment and community team) which identifies, reviews and manages patients with acute palliative care needs through a presence in the Emergency Department and an acute palliative medicine virtual ward in the community.
Applications are invited for 3 substantive Consultant in Palliative Medicine posts at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford. We are seeking enthusiastic, experienced individuals to join the well established, consultant led specialist palliative care services in Bradford. The 3 jobs cover three different services: hospital palliative care with an interest in undergraduate medical education, the Marie Curie Hospice inpatient unit with a special interest in MND and an innovative new post leading Marie Curie REACT (responsive emergency assessment and community team) which identifies, reviews and manages patients with acute palliative care needs through a presence in the Emergency Department and an acute palliative medicine virtual ward in the community.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We value people
We are one team
We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
The job plans will be based on the information listed below. The timing of the sessions indicated below may alter. However, the overall composition of the job plan is not expected to change.
A formal job plan meeting will take place no later than 6 months following appointment where the Trust Guidance on SPA allocation will apply.
The job plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a Consultant’s duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year. It should cover all aspects of a Consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It should provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it should include personal objectives including details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the Consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives. The provisional job plan is set out below. This will be based on the nationally agreed whole-time contract.

The post-holder is managerially accountable to the Clinical Director and professionally accountable to the Chief Medical Officer at BTHFT and the Medical Director at Marie Curie Hospice.