Palliative Medicine Consultant
Core
Provide specialist palliative clinical care for inpatients and community patients, oversee end-of-life care planning, and lead quality improvement initiatives.
Role type
Senior IC palliative medicine consultant
Builds
Integrated hospice and community-based palliative care services
Domain
Healthcare / Palliative Medicine
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Specialist palliative clinical care, multidisciplinary team collaboration, clinical audit and risk management, medical staff supervision, regional strategy development, on-call rota management
Preferred skills
Education and training of medical staff, implementation of regional care strategies
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Share responsibility for specialist palliative care of inpatients, provide expert consultation and oversight of clinical care, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, act as advisory resource for community professionals, lead quality improvement initiatives, contribute to staff education, participate in on-call rota, contribute to regional strategy implementation, supervise medical officers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
