Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is looking for a dynamic enthusiastic consultant to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team working predominantly supporting community services and Wakefield Hospice. This is a 9-month fixed term locum post covering for maternity leave. The successful candidate will work with the Trust Specialist Palliative Care Team to provide services across the Wakefield and Pontefract community as well as the inpatient unit at Wakefield Hospice. It is expected that the successful candidate will take a key role in providing community services and there is flexibility in the existing consultant team to enable pursuit of the successful candidate's personal areas of interest. The post holder will work in a team of 7 consultants and 16 clinical nurse specialists who provide cross cover and support across hospital and community palliative medicine services. MYTT End of Life Care Services were rated as good in our last CQC visit. The multidisciplinary community team see approximately 1250 referrals per year. The post will involve working closely with a consultant colleague to provide consultant oversight of the Wakefield Hospice inpatient service which will be a maximum of 16 beds. Wakefield Hospice has approximately 250 admissions per annum.
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is looking for a dynamic enthusiastic consultant to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team working predominantly supporting community services and Wakefield Hospice. This is a 9-month fixed term locum post covering for maternity leave. The successful candidate will work with the Trust Specialist Palliative Care Team to provide services across the Wakefield and Pontefract community as well as the inpatient unit at Wakefield Hospice. It is expected that the successful candidate will take a key role in providing community services and there is flexibility in the existing consultant team to enable pursuit of the successful candidate's personal areas of interest. The post holder will work in a team of 7 consultants and 16 clinical nurse specialists who provide cross cover and support across hospital and community palliative medicine services. MYTT End of Life Care Services were rated as good in our last CQC visit. The multidisciplinary community team see approximately 1250 referrals per year. The post will involve working closely with a consultant colleague to provide consultant oversight of the Wakefield Hospice inpatient service which will be a maximum of 16 beds. Wakefield Hospice has approximately 250 admissions per annum. The post holder will have the opportunity to work at a locality level as part of the collaborative end of life care partnership group improving co‑ordination of care of patients in the last year of life and ensuring a whole system approach to care. The teams are committed to education and service improvement with projects such as supporting the role out of ReSPECT, supporting patients with non‑malignant respiratory disease, supporting patients dying with stroke, specialist palliative care hospital at initiative, developing The Rosewood Centre, as well as leading the delivery of the multidisciplinary Motor Neurone Disease Service. The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract provides lymphoedema services across the region. The post holder will not routinely provide on call services but would be expected to provide cover in unexpected circumstances at a frequency of a maximum of 1:8, which would be paid in addition to the 8 PAs. This is a second on call service providing out of hours telephone advice across the Mid Yorkshire, Huddersfield and Calderdale footprint.
About the role: Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is looking for a dynamic enthusiastic consultant to join the Specialist Palliative Care Team working predominantly supporting community services and Wakefield Hospice. This is a 9‑month fixed term locum post covering for maternity leave. The successful candidate will work with the Trust Specialist Palliative Care Team to provide services across the Wakefield and Pontefract community as well as the inpatient unit at Wakefield Hospice. It is expected that the successful candidate will take a key role in providing community services and there is flexibility in the existing consultant team to enable pursuit of the successful candidate's personal areas of interest. The post holder will work in a team of 7 consultants and 16 clinical nurse specialists who provide cross cover and support across hospital and community palliative medicine services. MYTT End of Life Care Services were rated as good in our last CQC visit. The multidisciplinary community team see approximately 1250 referrals per year. The post will involve working closely with a consultant colleague to provide consultant oversight of the Wakefield Hospice inpatient service which will be a maximum of 16 beds. Wakefield Hospice has approximately 250 admissions per annum. The post holder will have the opportunity to work at a locality level as part of the collaborative end of life care partnership group improving co‑ordination of care of patients in the last year of life and ensuring a whole system approach to care. The teams are committed to education and service improvement with projects such as supporting the role out of ReSPECT, supporting patients with non‑malignant respiratory disease, supporting patients dying with stroke, specialist palliative care hospital at initiative, developing The Rosewood Centre, as well as leading the delivery of the multidisciplinary Motor Neurone Disease Service. The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract provides lymphoedema services across the region. The post holder will not routinely provide on call services but would be expected to provide cover in unexpected circumstances at a frequency of a maximum of 1:8, which would be paid in addition to the 8 PAs. This is a second on call service providing out of hours telephone advice across the Mid Yorkshire, Huddersfield and Calderdale footprint.
Dr. Hazel Pearse, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Associate Medical Director MYTT, telephone: or Dr Emma Lowe, Consultant in Palliative Medicine with an interest in community SPC. telephone: ).
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients' homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
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