Job Description
Job summary
Job summary
Overgate is the Hospice that serves the people of Calderdale and was founded in 1981 It has grown since then to provide specialist palliative care to twelve inpatient beds (one of which is a booked respite bed for patients with specialist palliative care needs) and day hospice services both within the hospice and at hubs throughout Calderdale. The Hospice also provides bereavement care and counselling, specialist palliative care social work services, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, complementary therapies, chaplaincy services, diversional therapies and a 24-hour advice line for professionals. Our aspirations include development of services to support patients in their own homes, and we have a team of Specialist Palliative Care Community Educators to support primary care professionals in the palliative care they deliver; this will strengthen our good relationship with local primary care services. In 2024 ground will be broken to start the building of a new purpose built sixteen bedded single room occupancy hospice within the grounds of the current hospice
CHfTs Medical Director provides Overgate Hospice with its Responsible Officer for Revalidation. Overgates patients have access to diagnostic services at CHfT and doctors have access to the trust intranet, including diagnostics results services, and electronic patient record (EPR) systems including CHfTs EPR, SystmOne, PPM (the local oncology electronic record) and PASWEB (where patients results can be accessed)
Main duties of the job
To provide medical care to inpatients at Overgate Hospice, alongside the multi-professional team.
To provide medical input to Day Hospice patients at Overgate Hospice, with good independent decision-making skills.
To provide support to primary care teams and other professionals.
To support and advise any medical colleagues & students who are more junior/less experienced in palliative medicine.
To participate in the non-resident on-call rota.
To maintain and administer medical records as per Hospice policy.
To ensure confidentiality of information is always preserved, whether at, or away from work.
To be involved in audit, research, and service development programmes as appropriate.
To participate actively in multi-professional discussions and meetings.
To help ensure that the high standard of medical care and support for carers and families at the Hospice is maintained.
To work closely with the Medical Director and Associate Specialist, to ensure provision of medical input throughout the Hospice.
To maintain standards and quality of care throughout the services delivered by the Hospice, by participating in standard setting and audit, attending relevant meetings, and contributing to Hospice policies, procedures, and guidelines.
To support the development of clinical governance, including a commitment to clinical audit, risk management, staff development, peer review and appraisal within the Hospice governance framework.