Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Provide clinical care to patients and those important to them within South Camden, and Islington (small part of Westminster). This includes visiting patients alone or jointly in their place of residence, providing telephone advice to other team members and other professionals, and conducting regular caseload reviews with the Clinical Nurse/Paramedic Specialists. The post holder will work closely all colleagues in the team, as well as colleagues within the wider service and throughout the Trust, and will liaise with professionals within the community - GPs, Community Nursing and other specialist Teams (e.g. Respiratory, Learning difficulties, Heart Failure, Dementia etc), and within St Pancras Hospital (St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit, Camden Virtual ward etc) as well as neighbouring hospitals as needed. Provide clinical cross cover for SPC consultants in the service who work in UCLH as needed. Work closely with the clinical lead for the service Dr Rasha Al-Qurainy, as well as the leads for the community team. Represent Palliative Care at relevant clinical and strategic meetings (e.g. NCL Specialist Palliative Care provider group, PallE8, GP Multidisciplinary meetings, Camden cross community meetings) Attend and contribute to the community specialist palliative care MDT meeting each week. Provide clinical supervision and educational supervision to trainees working within the team, as well as educational support and teaching to members of the nursing team undertaking advanced practice (e.g. non-medical prescribing, physical assessment) and to visitors to the team.