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Job requirements
Essential
6 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
· Advanced communication skills · Ability to improve quality and integration of palliative and end of life care across different care settings · Excellent written and verbal communication skills · Ability to work constructively in a multidisciplinary team and respond to the needs of colleagues · Ability to manage competing demands in a busy Acute environment as well as manage own emotions under stress · Enquiring, critical approach to work · Feedback and assessment skills
- Knowledge
· Understanding of NHS policy and delivery of national performance targets · High standard of knowledge, clinical skill and expertise in Palliative Medicine
- Experience
Broad clinical experience within Palliative Medicine · High standard of clinical skill and expertise in Palliative Medicine · Ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams · Ability to work to overcome barriers to change (negotiating, influencing, and persuasion skills) · Demonstrable commitment and ability to teach and train undergraduates and postgraduate doctors to a high standard · Experience in planning and delivery of teaching to a variety of health care professionals · Undertaken complete audit cycle or QIP · Practical experience of designing and implementing protocols/clinical guidelines · Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- Qualifications
Meets All Essential Criteria
- Personal Qualities
· Full UK valid driving license · Enthusiasm and approachability · Commitment to continuing professional development and clinical governance · Flexibility to meet the needs of patients, the service, and the Trust · Personal integrity and reliability · Commitment to, and understanding of, the importance of treating all persons with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs
- Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Understanding and demonstration of Trust vision, values, strategic objectives, as well as key work programmes
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Training in improvement methodology (or willingness to undertake) Previous active participation in leadership or management activities, including leading teams and service development Ability to inspire and motivate others
- Knowledge
Completion of a relevant leadership or management course
- Experience
Special interest within the field of Palliative Medicine Experience of multidisciplinary team working at a senior level Higher skills in Information Technology Experience of developing teaching programmes Experience of delivering simulation training Experience of participation in research projects Publication in peer reviewed journals
- Qualifications
Meets All Desirable Criteria
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Palliative Medicine Consultant to join our dynamic multidisciplinary palliative care spanning the acute and community sectors. This post is designed to recruit a locum consultant who will join the multidisciplinary Specialist Palliative Care Team based in Coventry Community and University Hospital site.
This post provides an opportunity to be part of shaping and navigating palliative care delivery in the new Neighbourhood structure, to support the left shift from hospital to community. Coventry Community is a fore-runner site, currently supported by NHS England. The role involves supporting specialist palliative care across the community setting including domiciliary visits, outpatient clinics, joint reviews with other community clinicians, such as GPs, case discussion and review. There is also 1 day a week supporting the Hospital Palliative Care Team, where the current post holder has provided bridge between hospital and community services, by reviewing patients when in hospital.
Main duties of the job
As part of our commitment to patients and delivery of a world class service for all, we have created the UHCW Improvement (UHCWi) System in partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle; this involves a structured approach to removing waste and putting the patient first using a lean management system and methodologies. Our culture and ways of working reflect and embed the practices and methodologies of UHCWi. You are expected, where identified, to attend and complete relevant training and development opportunities to support this. This may include Lean for Leaders, Advanced Lean Training, and the Human Factors Programme, amongst others. Full attendance and completion of identified courses is considered essential for this post.
Consultant appointments are made to the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust; as services are developed and changed, the base of posts may alter and any employee of the Trust will be expected, within an agreed clinical strategy, to move his/her sessions as the service requires. In particular, your attention is drawn to the fact that the post advertised may include routine evening and week-end working as part of the working arrangements for the new hospital the details of which are currently under discussion. The specific scheduling of such activities would be subject to mutual agreement and may be agreed at a later date in the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In addition to helping deliver specialist palliative care services locally, it is planned that the new consultant will work to improve the regional delivery of Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC). UHCW works in close collaboration with the other local specialist palliative care teams in Coventry and Warwickshire as well as surrounding areas. This post will help develop working relationships between local providers of specialist PEoLC and support ongoing quality improvement initiatives, including in education, training, and research.
The successful appointee will join an evolving community medical team, with Hospital at Home Consultants and Palliative Medicine Speciality Doctor. In addition, they have support of a well-established Palliative Medicine Team providing inpatient care provision.
The role is supported by a lead nurse, the Integrated Care and Community Services Group senior leadership team and a dedicated CNS team in the Community and hospital, Specialist Palliative Care Physiotherapist and Occupational therapists and Clinical Psychologists. In addition, at the hospital there is a Palliative Care Pharmacist.
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.
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This advert is for Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in Coventry, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Palliative Medicine role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Locum: 12 months. The application deadline is 12 Oct 2026.
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