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Bank Specialty Doctor

North Devon Hospice

Newport, EX32 0HUView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£956.00

Contract

Bank

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

1 November 2026

12 days left

Job description

Time to listen. Time to understand. Time to care. Could your next clinical challenge be one where you have the time to truly care? At North Devon Hosp...

  • Make a real difference to patients and families at an important time in their lives
  • Care for people with cancer and non-cancer life-limiting conditions
  • Work within a supportive, experienced multidisciplinary team
  • Develop your skills and experience in palliative medicine
  • Complement your existing GP, hospital or portfolio career
  • Enjoy the time and space to provide person-centred, meaningful care

You'll provide medical cover for our 7-bed inpatient unit, support our community teams and contribute to our 24/7 first-on-call service. You'll have access to 24hr second on-call Palliative Medicine Consultant support. Full induction and shadowing opportunities are provided.

In this role you will be responsible for:

  • Providing medical management of patients in the hospice from admission to discharge or death
  • Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, to ensure care encompasses the physical, emotional and

psychological needs of patients and their families

  • Creating and maintaining clear, accurate, concise and contemporaneous clinical records using our

electronic patient record

  • Utilising other electronic and digital systems, hosted by key partner organisations, to help coordinate

care between those organisations and across the system

  • Working with clinical teams to support the continuity of medical care to patients under the care of the

hospice across in-patient, community and our outpatient settings

  • Fully participating in the hospice multidisciplinary team meeting, daily capacity meeting and

community team case oversight discussions

  • Providing the first clinical on-call service to the Bedded Unit on a roster basis
  • Providing expert advice to colleagues regarding specific cases and the management of palliative care

issues

  • Engaging in supervision and clinical case review to support own and others practice
  • Engaging in audit and research as required, actively pursuing opportunities to promote this within the

hospice

  • Driving a culture of continuous learning and evidenced based practice
  • Ensuring that good infection control practices are followed at all times and maintaining up to date

knowledge of infection control policies, procedures and guidance relevant to the area of work

  • Understanding your role in the safeguarding of adults and children by being able to identify risks, and

recognise signs of harm, abuse or neglect including how to report concerns and take immediate action

to protect a person at risk of harm or abuse

  • An excellent working environment (& beautiful outside areas)
  • Free on-site parking
  • The ability to contribute to your existing NHS pension
  • Regular Wellbeing events
  • The opportunity to give us your feedback on how we can improve as an organisation.

Experience

Essential: - Experience in General Practice, or General Medicine, or other experience relevant to the post

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GMC Registration, with a current licence to practise
  • The experience and qualifications to meet the current entry criteria for
  • Specialty Doctor roles

Other Criteria

Essential

  • Evidence of participation in annual medical appraisal to meet requirements of revalidation
  • Membership of a recognised medical defence organisation, at a level suitable to cover hospice work

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

28 September 2026

Last checked

30 September 2026

Salary, closing date and description are taken from the employer's advert. The original advert always takes precedence.

About the employer

NDH
North Devon Hospice

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