Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 Months contract)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 321-SUWON-MS-7067591-S6
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sobell House Hospice
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £61,825 Plus oncall pay
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Sobell House Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Clinical Fellow
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
The post holder’s duties will be primarily at Churchill Hospital, Oxford, or Katharine House Hospice, Banbury, but it is a condition of all appointments that post holders will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations and outreach into the community if required.
The aim of these fellowships is to offer a 60/40 split of clinical service provision with protected time to undertake either Educational or Quality Improvement project work over the course of a year. It is anticipated that this post will provide an excellent opportunity for senior trainees looking to take an OOP to gather in depth experience of Palliative Medicine, or to broaden their experience of education or governance.
Sobell House is an NHS Specialist Palliative Care Service and is an integral part of the Oncology Directorate within the Surgery and Oncology Division in Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Sobell House has served the community of Oxfordshire for over 40 years. Sobell House Hospice Charity supports the work of the Hospice and the Trust. Visit the website at www.sobellhouse.org. Sobell House Hospice Charity is supplying the funds to support these fellowship roles financially.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will perform the duties of Fellow to the Palliative Medicine team which is based at Sobell House in the Churchill Hospital and Katharine House Hospice in Banbury. The post holder will work within one or more area of the service either:
- On the specialist inpatient wards in Sobell House or Katharine House which comprise 28 beds offering intensive symptom management and end of life care for adults with life limiting conditions
- in the Hospital Palliative Care Team offering a consultative specialist advisory service for adults with life limiting conditions under the care of specialist colleagues in the acute hospitals of the John Radcliffe, Churchill, Nuffield Orthopaedic or Horton Hospitals in Oxfordshire
- in the Community Palliative Care Team working in concert with primary care to enable symptom control and ACP for adults with life limiting conditions who are in their usual place of residence throughout Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire
- in the newly commenced RIPEL project which offers Home Hospice care and enhanced responsiveness to for adults with life limiting conditions who are suffering uncontrolled symptoms or a crisis in care.
The post holder will participate in the on-call rota alongside our current Specialist Registrars and Specialty Doctors.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will be part of a medical team comprising 8 consultants (Dr Victoria Bradley , Prof Bee Wee, Dr Charlie Bond, Dr Matthew Carey, Dr Tim Harrison, Dr Mary Miller, Dr Victoria Hedges and a locum consultant), 3 Associate Specialists (Dr Jane Stickland, Dr Ros Henderson and Dr Julia Bartley), 4 Specialty Doctors (Dr Sarah Hanrott, Dr Tanya Greenway, Dr Husna Munsoor and Dr Michele Fletcher) and a number of doctors training in Palliative Medicine and General Practice. The scope of work covered by the medical team includes clinical care in the specialist services as above and also includes support for the Living Well programme and supportive care services, lymphoedema and bereavement based on 2 sites (Headington, Oxford and Adderbury, Banbury), leadership of end of life care across the Trust, education and research.
Members of the multidisciplinary team who work across the settings include nurses, allied health professionals, music therapist, art therapist, chaplain, social workers and support staff including volunteers. We have sessional support from a consultant psychiatrist.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP/MRCGP
- GMC Registration without limitations on practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Palliative Medicine
- Publications and presentations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Davies
- Job title
- PA to the Consultants
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 (5)72125
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