Hospice Doctor

St Johns Hospice provides care to patients and their families from both NWL and NCL ICBs.

We currently have an opportunity for a FY3 resident doctor wanting to enhance their skills in caring for patients requiring specialist palliative addition to the 17 bedded inpatient unit we also have a Community Specialist Palliative Care Team a Hospice at Home Team a Wellbeing Centre and a Lymphoedema Service. Working across all departments we also have our social work and bereavement team and our hospice therapies addition we provide a number of complementary therapies which are available for both the patient and those important to them

If you want to provide the best in holistic care and learn palliative care skills that can be transferred to any setting this could be the job for you.

You will work closely with our Palliative Care Consultants Specialty Doctors and wider clinical teams to deliver highquality medical care to patients with lifelimiting illnesses. Our hospice is built on values of compassion community charity and commitment and we pride ourselves on caring for the physical psychosocial spiritual and emotional needs of every individual.

Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line minutes from Central London our independent private Hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely all profits fund our onsite Hospice St Johns.

What Youll Be Doing

You will play an active role in the daytoday medical management of hospice patients including:

• Supporting admissions ward rounds clinical meetings and MDT discussions

• Providing holistic palliative care addressing physical psychological social and spiritual needs

• Maintaining accurate contemporaneous records in SystmOne

• Completing medical examiner referrals coroner referrals and MCCDs (with consultant support)

• Assessing patients in day services outpatients and community settings

• Liaising with primary and secondary care teams to ensure continuity of care

• Contributing to teaching clinical governance audit and research

• Engaging in ongoing CPD and annual appraisal

What Were Looking For

Essential:

• Full GMC registration with Licence to Practise

• MBBS or equivalent

• Minimum 4 years postregistration experience

• Broad medical experience ideally with some exposure to palliative care

• Strong communication skills with patients families and colleagues

• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team

• Good IT skills and experience with clinical audit

• Awareness of own limitations and willingness to seek support

• Specific interest in Palliative Medicine

• Experience leading audit or quality improvement projects

Why apply for this role

At our organisation we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training we offer our employees a wide range of benefits;

When you become part of the HJE Family these are some of the benefits you will receive:

• Private healthcare scheme worth up to 20000 per year
• 27 days annual leave
• Blue Light Card discounts
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye check-up vouchers with contribution towards lenses
• Free newspaper and media subscriptions
• Local Business discounts
• Discount in our Hospice Charity shop
• Refer a Friend scheme
• Free Cinema Society Membership offering discounted tickets
• Personal development and training courses
• Annual events and recognition awards
• Career progression and increments

If you are ready for a new challenge and relish the chance to become part of a successful forward thinking organisation then we would love to hear from you.