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Location
Orpington, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
The Palliative Care team at Kings delivers an advisory service Trust-wide and has a flexible and responsive approach to meet the changing needs of the patients and carers. The team is split across the 2 main hospital sites; Denmark Hill and The Princess Royal University Hospital in Farnborough, but work collaboratively both clinically and academically with our colleagues based at the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care. The Cicely Saunders Institute (CSI) opened in 2010 and is the first purpose built institute for palliative care in the world. The Institute was created by close working with the Cicely Saunders International charity, and with other philanthropic and statutory support. These purpose built facilities allow the closer integration of research and clinical staff to translate the results of research more quickly to patients and families. In 2016 the palliative care team were shortlisted in the BMJ palliative care team of the year awards and in 2022 the team have been shortlisted for the HSJ NHS Race Equality award. In Nov 2017 Palliative Care was approved as the 22nd Clinical Academic Group within King's Health Partners in recognition of the continued integration of clinical and academic teams working together to improve the evidence base and clinical care for those with advanced disease including the provision of high quality end of life care. The Palliative Care Outcomes book was produced in May 2018 showcasing the excellent work to date. Ongoing priorities include; improved integration with the Mind and Body programme, the continued embedding of outcome measures into practice, including the evidence base underpinning their use, benchmarking across all services, streamlining education and maximising opportunities for collaboration across the sector. This post is based at the Princess Royal University Hospital and the post holder will work with their consultant colleagues, providing leadership for the team based at this site and leading in developing a proactive palliative care approach in the emergency care pathway The consultant team work collaboratively with colleagues across all sites to deliver excellence in palliative care and contribute to the teams governance programme. They will also work with colleagues based in the community, specifically St Christophers Hospice, to enhance the coordination and delivery of care for patients and carers with the aim of developing a whole-systems approach in the Bromley area.
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Salary
£95.83k - £128.44k per annum
