Doctor (Fully Qualified)

To provide medical care to inpatients at Overgate Hospice, alongside the multi-professional team.

To provide medical input to Day Hospice patients at Overgate Hospice, with good independent decision-making skills.

To provide support to primary care teams and other professionals.

To support and advise any medical colleagues & students who are more junior/less experienced in palliative medicine.

To participate in the non-resident on-call rota.

To maintain and administer medical records as per Hospice policy.

To ensure confidentiality of information is always preserved, whether at, or away from work.

To be involved in audit, research, and service development programmes as appropriate.

To participate actively in multi-professional discussions and meetings.

To help ensure that the high standard of medical care and support for carers and families at the Hospice is maintained.

To work closely with the Medical Director and Associate Specialist, to ensure provision of medical input throughout the Hospice.

To maintain standards and quality of care throughout the services delivered by the Hospice, by participating in standard setting and audit, attending relevant meetings, and contributing to Hospice policies, procedures, and guidelines.

To support the development of clinical governance, including a commitment to clinical audit, risk management, staff development, peer review and appraisal within the Hospice governance framework.

£198.78 per 8-hour day

£99.39 per on call session

Hours 32 hours = 4 x 8hr days = 0.8 WTE per week

(Tuesdays - Fridays 8.30am-5pm)

PLUS 1 in 5 weeknights and weekends on call

Weeknights 5.00pm 8.30am = 1 session

Weekends Sat 8.30am - Mon 8.30am = 6 sessions

Contract Fixed term 12 months

Salary details

Overgate contributes to the cost of medical indemnity insurance

NHS pensions can be continued but not started in this role

Annual Leave Six weeks + ten public holidays (all pro rata)

Employer Overgate Hospice (not NHS)

Responsible to and supervised by Dr Rachel Sheils, Medical Director

Applications written using AI are strongly discouraged. Spoken communication is extremely important in this role. Interviews may be terminated if spoken language is at a significantly lower standard than the written application

As a charity, Overgate does NOT provide sponsorship

Overgate Hospice is an independent charity with a mission to ensure that patients and those close to them live with the best possible quality of life. This is enabled by provision of the highest standard of compassionate and evidence-based specialist palliative and end of life care for adults in Calderdale who have active, progressive life limiting illness

The Hospice doctors work closely with the enthusiastic, experienced, multi-professional team, ensuring a high standard of medical care

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

Full registration with the GMC and a licence to practice

Completion of Foundation Year 1 & 2

Previous employment as a doctor in the NHS

Excellence in both written and spoken English language

Medical Director

Director of Clinical Services, Deputy Director of Clinical Services

Medical Team

Nursing Teams in Day Hospice & Inpatient Unit

Multidisciplinary team

High standards of medical and holistic care to patients & families

Support and advise less experienced colleagues & students

Participate in the non-resident on-call rota

Maintain and administer medical records as per Hospice policy, protecting the security of confidential data

Work collaboratively with all Hospice colleagues, including multi-professional discussions and meetings

Professional

Maintain standards and quality of care by participating in all aspects of good governance (audit, risk management, quality improvement, CPD, incident reporting & reflection, service development etc

Education

Engage with medical appraisal and revalidation

Participate in internal and external education sessions (attending and delivering)

The post-holder must participate in the on-call rota for the Inpatient Unit at a frequency of 1 in 5. This is non-resident and consultant advice is available 24/7 by telephone

At weekends, on-call duties include a ward round, any admissions, and then to be available (non-resident) for telephone or in-person care of inpatients

Prospective Cover Doctors provide prospective cover for each others leave

Any additional week day and on-call sessions worked to back-fill others leave attracts sessional payment at the usual rate

The post includes 2 hours non-clinical time /week

The Hospice is committed to continuous professional development (CPD) and will grant study leave with funding where appropriate

The main palliative medicine journals are available via Calderdale Royal Hospital (CRH) Library

A laptop is provided for work purposes

Overgate Hospice is an independent charity

with a mission to ensure that patients and those close to them live with the

best possible quality of life. This is enabled by provision of the highest

standard of compassionate and evidence-based specialist palliative and end of

life care for adults in Calderdale who have active, progressive life limiting

illness.

However, the current constraints of our ageing facilities are making this more difficult than ever. Our ambitious redevelopment plans will modernise and expand our existing facilities to transform the environment in which we care for our patients

All Hospice staff are required to act in such a way that always safeguards the health and well-being of children and adults at risk. Familiarisation with and adherence to the Hospice safeguarding policies is an essential requirement of all employees as is participation in related mandatory/statutory training.

All employees should carry out their duties in accordance with the values and principles of valuing diversity and equity of provision. It is the responsibility of all employees to support the Hospice vision of promoting a positive attitude to diversity and equality of opportunity, to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and employment, and to manage, support or comply through the implementation of the Hospices Equal Opportunities Policy.

Skills & Abilities

Experience

Personal Attributes

Qualifications

Desirable: - Completion of Core Medical training (post-foundation) medical experience or equivalent; - M.R.C.P. / M.R.C.G.P.