Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine

at  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for the above post in The Palliative Medicine Department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Candidates are warmly invited to consider this exciting opportunity of joining an established team and helping to lead the palliative care department. This is a 10 PA post which includes an on call commitment attracting category B availability supplement and PA remuneration. Applications from those able to work part time will be considered.
The Palliative Medicine Department contains a Community Service offering specialist support to patients across Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire including a supportive care day service, a Hospital Service working across all four acute hospital sites and two inpatient hospice units (Sobell House and Katharine House) with 28 bed capacity between them.
The successful candidates will join a team of 8 consultants, 3 associate specialists and 6 specialty doctors, 2 fellows and 7 doctors in training (3 palliative medicine, 4 general practice). There is an expectation that the successful candidate will play a strategic leadership role in helping to deliver and enhance palliative care across the hospital, community and hospice settings.
The Hospice is seeking a capable, enthusiastic doctor who enjoys working in a tertiary referral centre as well as in the community. In addition to superb clinical skills the right doctors will enjoy working in a large team, teaching as part of the University of Oxford Medical School course on Palliative Medicine as well as to the broad MDT and quality improvement work. This post is a substantive role.
For further information please contact Dr Victoria Bradley, Clinical Lead Sobell House via or Rebecca Davies (email: rebecca.davies4@ouh.nhs.uk or tel: 01865 (5)72125). Visits to the unit are welcomed and encouraged.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel .
The Palliative Medicine Department at OUHFT is a growing and dynamic department containing a Community Service offering specialist support to patients across Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire, a Hospital Service working across all four acute hospital sites and two inpatient hospice units (Sobell House and Katharine House) with 28 bed capacity between them as well as a burgeoning Supportive Palliative Care service with well-developed models in Renal Supportive Care, Oncology, Haematology and Cardiology. The Department has recently undertaken a large multi-million pound expansion with the Rapid Intervention in Palliative and End of Life Care project creating an enhanced co-ordiation Hub, Hospice Outreach and Home Hospice Teams and Hospital Rapid Response.
The successful candidates will be part of a team of 8 consultants, currently consisting of Prof Bee Wee, Dr Mary Miller, Dr Tim Harrison, Dr Victoria Bradley, Dr Matthew Carey, Dr Charlie Bond, Dr Victoria Hedges and Dr Farzana Virani. In addition, the team consists of three associate specialists, seven specialty doctors, two fellows and seven doctors in training (3 palliative medicine, 4 general practice). The scope of work covered by the medical team includes clinical care in the specialist service (inpatient, outpatient including Living Well day services, community specialist team, hospital team, lymphoedema and bereavement), clinical care and leadership of end of life care across the Trust, education and research. The consultants rotate key clinical responsibility for different parts of the clinical service every 1-2 years as mutually agreed.
The postholder’s base will be either at Sobell House Hospice at the Churchill Hospital or at Katharine House Hospice but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations

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