- Be a core member of the Specialist Palliative Care MDTs
- Be a core member of the relevant clinical service groups.
- Undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board Trust's procedures and operating policies.
- Participate in job appraisal and review.
- Participate in clinical audit and teaching in conjunction with colleagues across the Health Board.
- Providing education across a range of professionals supporting the training of specialist and generic trainees of every grade and contribute to the delivery of the foundation core curriculum across the Health Board.
- shall have full registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council Shall have completed at least four years' full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty; or shall have equivalent experience and competencies. including an interest in palliative medicine or equivalent experience.
- Higher diploma e.g. MRCP or MRCGP, Post graduate qualification e.g. MA, MSc, MD
- Evidence of working effectively as a part of a multidisciplinary team
- Track record of successful management of change
- Wide experience in the medical management of patients with palliative care symptoms
- Liaison with other agencies
- Leadership Skills
- Track record for independent consultation assessments and decision making under pressure
- Experience in implementation of service improvement/development
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to communicate sensitively with patients, relatives and staff
- Commitment to modern practices
- Teaching Skill
- Understanding of information systems and technology
- Driving License/ability to travel between sites
- Ability to undertake on-call
- Team Working
- Advance Communication Skills training
- Flexible and adaptable to competing demands
- Ability to take a lead role in clinical development
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Junior Clinical Fellow in Palliative Care - Swansea, United Kingdom - Swansea Bay University Health Board
Description
OUR VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS
We expect everyone that works for the Health Board, regardless of their role, to share and uphold our values in all that they do:
Caring for each other - in every human contact in all of our communities and each of our hospitals.
Working together - as patients, families, carers, staff and communities so that we always put patients first
Always improving - so that we are at our best for every patient and for each other.
Job overview
Do you share our health board values; Caring for each other; working together; always improving? If so, we would love for you to come and work for Swansea Bay University HB.
We are delighted to offer a Speciality Doctor to join our friendly, ambitious and expanding department which provides a Specialist Palliative Care Service. This is a fixed term post to commence as soon as possible. This is a 10 session Job plan which is inclusive of 1:6 on call.
The department covers all aspects of Specialist Palliative Care (Specialist inpatient/hospice, community and hospital liaison work) provided by a multi-disciplinary team across the Swansea and Neath localities.
We would invite candidates from all medical, general practice and surgical backgrounds as we believe that all experience is valuable to Specialist Palliative Care. Previous Speciality Doctors in the department have gone on to higher training in Specialist Palliative Care, have been supported through CESAR applications or have continued to thrive as well valued-Speciality Doctors within the department.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to:
Working for our organisation
Swansea Bay University Health Board has responsibility for the health of around 390,000 people in the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea areas, with a budget of around £1 billion and employing 12,500 people. We are a University Health Board working in partnership with Swansea University, Swansea School of Medicine, the School of Health Science and the Institute of Life Science. The HB has three major hospitals providing a range of services: Morriston and Singleton hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot hospital in Baglan, Port Talbot.
We also have community hospital and primary care resource centres providing clinical services outside the main hospitals.
Swansea is Wales' second-largest city, and sits on the five-mile sweep of Swansea Bay. An ideal base for exploring South-West Wales, there is also much on offer for visitors in Swansea itself. Swansea has a range of shops, cosy cafes, great restaurants, art galleries as well as being able to offer good outdoor lifestyle with its beautiful coastline and beaches on the Gower Peninsula. Swansea also has excellent sporting facilities including the Wales National pool and stadium home to the Ospreys and Swansea City Football Club.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details in relation to this post please click on the supporting documents section to find the full job description and person specification.
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Swansea Bay University Health Board reserve the right to close vacancies if a large number of suitable applications are received. We encourage early applications to ensure consideration for a post.
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
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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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
