Consultant - Palliative Care

Job overview

The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of North Tees and Hartlepool (NTUH) fully integrated Palliative Care team across hospital community and hospice settings as required. This post will involve a minimum of 1.5 sessions per week of regular hospice clinical work. This maybe in either one of two local hospices: Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool or Butterwick Hospice in Stockton (9 and 8 bedded adult inpatient units respectively).

Hospital and community clinical work will involve face to face and non-face to face patient reviews, as well as advising and supporting the palliative care team and wider healthcare teams with clinical management of patients.

On call duties are in the mainstay non-resident, taking advice calls from hospital, community and hospice settings, as part of University Hospital Tees (UHT) wide consultant rota. There is an expectation that consultants will attend to review patients face to face in a hospice setting out of hours if required to support a doctor in training in exceptional circumstances. Consultants on call are expected to be within 2 hours travel time from the hospices covered on call (located in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton).

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be welcomed to join our dynamic integrated palliative care service at North Tees and Hartlepool (NTH) providing input into community, hospital and hospice settings.

Base and clinical settings primarily based with the North Tees and Hartlepool integrated palliative care team at the University Hospital of North Tees.

• Expected to work flexibly across hospital, community and hospice settings according to clinical need.
• A minimum average of 1.5 sessions per week in a hospice is an essential requirement of the post.
• Regular hospice work will be undertaken at either Butterwick Hospice, Stockton or Alice House Hospice, Hartlepool.
• Butterwick Hospice is immediately adjacent to the University Hospital of North Tees. Alice House Hospice is located a 25-minute drive away in Hartlepool and includes a satellite office for the hospital and community team within.

Consultant team

The appointee joins a wider group of 10 Palliative Medicine consultants across University Hospitals Tees (a geographical area that covers: North Tees and Hartepool; Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland; and Hambleton and Richmondshire).

• They will primarily work alongside five other consultants, forming a local group of six supporting NTH.
• NTH Consultants collectively ensure appropriate senior medical support across community, hospital and hospice services.
• Consultant cover for UHT wide services may be required at times of clinical need

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Further details and information are available on the attached job description and person specification.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.