Locum Medical Officer - Palliative Medicine

Main Roles and Responsibilities

The role will be based on the inpatient unit at St Richards Hospice where you will be required to:

Contribute to a non-resident weekend on call rota (currently approximately 1:6). This is renumerated separately to your base salary.

About youApplicants should have full GMC registration with a license to practise and will have completed at least 1 year of post-registration experience.

You will be a strong team player with excellent communication and ICT skills. Your job plan will encourage professional development and active participation in audit, educational and quality improvement activities

KEY WORKING

RELATIONSHIPS: -

The post holder with work

closely with nursing staff and wider multi-disciplinary team as well as medical

colleagues. The Medical Team currently

Comprises

Consultant Palliative

Care - Clinical Director Medical Lead

Specialist Doctor -

Clinical Director Strategy and Governance Lead

Consultant Palliative

Care - Herefordshire and Worcestershire NHS Health and Care Trust, with shared

consultant care of St Richards Inpatient unit.

Specialty Doctors

Trainee Doctors - the

team is also supported by Palliative Medicine Specialty Trainees, GP trainees

and Foundation Doctors on rotation

JOB SUMMARY: -

As part of the

multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will have clinical responsibilities

for patients in the In-patient Unit. They

will be expected to work collaboratively with colleagues to provide the highest

standards of care, developing services to meet the changing needs of patients

and raising the profile of palliative medicine

Main Duties

and Responsibilities

1.

Clinical

Admission and assessment

of planned and emergency new patients to the In-Patient Unit on day of

admission. Medical cover for the inpatient unit during weekday hours is between

8.30am and 5pm. The post holder will

work a shift of 8 hours (2 PAs) per day, which will be reflected in the

proposed job plan.

Medical review of

in-patients according to need, (as identified via their Phase of Illness and

IPOS), allowing holistic assessment and management of palliative medicine

problems, monitoring of symptoms and assessment of clinical needs.

Working closely with the

multi-disciplinary team, taking on board their insights, concerns and ideas.

Participation in the weekly in-patient MDT meetings.

Keeping thorough and

accurate records of all interventions and contacts relevant to patient care in

the electronic patient record (SystmOne).

Timely writing of

discharge summaries to GPs and other correspondence, communicating with other

agencies as required.

Communication with

patients family or carers, with the patients consent, assisting in their

support and providing information as necessary.

Liaison with medical and

nursing staff in the hospitals and community when requested to do so.

Completion of Medical

Certificate of Cause of Death and liaison with the Worcester Medical Examiner

Office.

Completion of Coroners

referral when necessary including writing of Coroners statement when asked to

by the Coroners office (in liaison with the patients named Consultant).

Provision of medical

support to the Living Well Centre, will be given in emergency situations or if

delegated by the community consultant.

This is expected to be infrequent.

Participation in the

weekend/bank holiday medical rota for the Hospice Inpatient Unit, supported by

a second on-call Consultant in Palliative Medicine. The frequency is no more

than 1 in 6 weekends. Weekend hours are 10-4pm on a Saturday, Sunday and Bank

Holiday. Duties include assessment of

inpatients identified as requiring medical review by the senior nursing team or

the doctors from the preceding day. Assessment

and management of emergency and planned admissions to the Hospice.

2.

Education and Learning

To maintain registration

of the General Medical Council.

To participate in the

Individual Performance Review (IPR) process and respond to the agreed

development plan.

To undertake statutory,

mandatory and role enhancement training as directed.

To maintain their own

continuing medical education to support the requirements of annual appraisal

and revalidation and maintain and develop skills and expertise.

The post holder will

participate in the education of the multi-disciplinary team including doctors

in training, GPs, nursing staff and medical students as appropriate.

Time for these Supporting

Professional Activities is reflected in the proposed job plan, within your

usual working week. This may be flexible

to ensure effective clinical cover to the Inpatient Unit.

3.

Quality Improvement (Research

and Audit)

To participate in

clinical audit and quality improvement projects in accordance with agreed

Clinical Governance and Clinical Quality programmes, and in liaison with the Clinical

Directors.

To attend and participate

in regular Medical Team Meetings (fortnightly) and Medical Quality Meetings.

4.

General

To maintain

confidentiality of all information with regard to patients, families, staff and

volunteers of St Richards Hospice in accordance with the Hospices

confidentiality policy.

To take responsibility

for being up to date with all Hospice policies and procedures, and to adhere to

these.

To be a supportive member

of the Hospice team, bringing any issues to the attention of the line manager.

To build good working

relationships with staff and volunteers of St Richards Hospice and with

external multi-disciplinary teams.

To promote the philosophy

of St Richards Hospice at all times and to uphold its core values of Care,

Compassion, Professionalism and Commitment.

To be aware of the

Hospices charitable and fundraising events and participate as appropriate.

We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits including;

Find out moreFor further information about this exciting opportunity, please contact Dr Kath Newton (consultant / medical team lead) on 07969 989611 or knewton@strichards.org.uk

Applications can be made directly from our website or on NHS jobs.

This post requires an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Closing date 09 September 2026

Interview date Week beginning 14 September 2026

Qualifications

Experience