Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Job overview

The successful candidates  will join a Palliative Medicine Consultant team, which currently consists of:
7 Consultants in Palliative Medicine employed by the Trust providing
comprehensive clinical input to the populations of Wolverhampton and
South Staffordshire:
 New Cross Hospital, West Park Hospital and Cannock Hospital,
 Compton Care and in the community of its catchment area.
One consultant also outreaches in Walsall working with two other
Consultants colleagues employed by Walsall Healthcare Trust. Together
with colleagues from Dudley, those 12 consultants support the Palliative
Medicine needs of nearly 1 million population of the Black Country area
and jointly provide on-call advice at night and at weekends (mainly
second on call).
The consultants are involved in local, sub-regional, regional and national
developments of palliative care services, research and teaching with a
whole range of responsibilities.
They are supported by 2 non-Consultant grade career doctors and a
clinical fellow at Compton Care and provide supervision for up to three
registrars and one foundation year 2 doctor.

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The Post
This post is a replacement post. It is offered as full-time but the trust is keen
to tailor them to the requirement the individual candidates may have.

Part time working will be considered with the possibility of more than one person to be appointed. This post was focused on supporting the two consultants already working on the New Cross, West Park and Cannock sites.

These posts were created as part of planned additional medical and nursing
resource within the hospital specialist palliative care service to:
accommodate existing and projected palliative and end of life service
demands at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust;
-enable a 7-day face-to-face specialist palliative care service;
-facilitate earlier, proactive, collaborative working with other specialties
and incorporate an integrated supportive/end-of-life service closely
aligned to the specialist palliative care team but focusing on support of
patients thought to be in the last year or so of life, both with face-to-face
advisory input and a structured education programme for front-line
clinicians.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust are one of the largest acute and community providers in the West Midlands having more than 850 beds on the New Cross site. The Trust also has 56 rehabilitation beds at West Park Hospital and 54 beds at Cannock Chase Hospital.

We provide services from the following locations;

• New Cross Hospital – secondary and tertiary services, maternity, Accident and Emergency, critical care and outpatients;
• West Park Hospital – rehabilitation inpatient and day care services, therapy services and outpatients;
• Cannock Chase Hospital – general surgery, orthopaedics, breast surgery, urology, dermatology and medical day case investigations and treatment (including endoscopy) ;
• More than 20 community sites – community services for children and adults, walk-in centres and therapy and rehabilitation services ;
• Primary care – Ten GP practices have now joined us and offer extended opening hours to patients.