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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.

Find out more about the Trust on their web-site at www.ouh.nhs.uk

Watch how OUH goes about delivering compassionate excellence on the ouhnhs YouTube channel

Contact

Address: Oxford Univ Hosps NHS Foundation Trust; OUHC HR Department,; 3rd Floor Unipart House Business Centre; Garsington Road; Oxford; Oxfordshire; OX4 2PG
Contact Number: 01865 741186

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Ref: 321-SUWON-MS-6533251-S1-A Vacancy ID: 6646066

Locum Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Closed for applications on: 19-Sept-2024 10:39

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 19-Sept-2024 10:39

Location

Site: Churchill Hospital
Address: Old Road
Town: Oxford
Postcode: OX3 7LJ
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Locum: 12 months

Hours

Full time
Part time

10 sessions per week (1 in 6 on call)

Salary

Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 Not defined
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)

Specialty

Main area: Palliative Medicine

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS 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 of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton 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.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.

All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria

MBBS or equivalent
MRCP / MRCGP or equivalent
Full GMC registration and licence to practise

Desirable criteria

Diploma or other qualification in palliative care
Research degree
Worked in a tertiary referral hospital
Experience of working in or with community based services
Entry on the specialist register to practise palliative medicine (CCT or CESR route both acceptable) or within 6 months of achieving entry

Experience

Essential criteria

Fit to practice safely as defined by GMC
Evidence of ability to identify a problem, understand it, develop and implement a management strategy
Experience of setting and maintaining work standards
Methodical, conscientious & reliable
Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.

Desirable criteria

Previous consultant experience, especially if in tertiary hospital
Previous NHS experience
Evidence of team working
Experience of teaching
Previous research experience
Previous leadership experience

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
Personal enthusiasm and motivation with the ability to encourage these attribute in others
English as a first language or sufficient skills to enable excellent communication (ILETS 6 – 7)
Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
Evidence of understanding of importance of research and critical appraisal of evidence