Specialty Doctor in Palliative Care

You will join the palliative care team of Saint Francis Hospice as a Specialty Doctor and be a key member of the hospice ward team and the hospice community teams, with the postholder joining as permanent member of the hospice medical workforce, which includes Consultants , speciality doctors and medical trainees (from the local GP training schemes and the London/KSS Palliative Care Specialist Training scheme).

Saint Francis Hospice is situated in the village of Havering-atte-Bower, near the London/Essex border, just 4 miles from Romford. The hospice serves the people of outer East London (Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham and Havering), also Brentwood in Southwest Essex, and the near parts of West Essex, providing 18 hospice beds. The hospice also provides community palliative care services to Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Brentwood (with Redbridge cover out of hours). The hospice has an excellent reputation. It was awarded ‘Outstanding’ status at last CQC inspection. There is a strong commitment to education, training and professional development.

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is the local hospitals trust and holds the NHS contracts for the Consultants and Specialty Doctors in Palliative Care in the region, but the post is fully seconded to the hospice/community for day-to-day work.

This post enables the development of portfolio career in palliative medicine. The postholder will be hospice based, supporting both the hospice ward and the community.

Part 1 of the JD introduces Saint Francis Hospice and describes a summary of this role.

Part 2 provides some detail about the BHRUT Macmillan Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team. We work closely with this team in our day-to-day clinical care, educational outreach and strategically, to improve access to and delivery of specialist palliative, supportive and end of life care in all settings.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Rust Job title: Medical Staffing Coordinator Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 01708435000

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