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Job Title: GP Advisor
Job Reference: KL1399371ChoGA
Location: Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Salary: Remunerated with a day rate of £164.66

At Derian House Children’s Hospice in Chorley, Lancashire, we are looking for enthusiastic GP’s who can support our clinical strategy to grow services and help more children and young people with life-limiting conditions throughout the North West.

You will be joining us as a self-employed GP advisor, and will work alongside our other GPs on rota in supporting our day-to-day medical model and providing on-call cover.

At the hospice, we care for more than 400 babies, children, and young people and their families, helping them to make the most of every moment. Do you have the care, experience and skills to make a difference?

Your duties would include:

A daily contact or in-person visit to the hospice during your week on call, Monday to Saturday, to assess the needs of individual children and young people, and to provide appropriate advice and treatment. This includes symptom management, death certificates, diagnosis and treatment of acute conditions.

To be available out-of-hours for the week you are on call to; provide advice, emergency assessment and treatment of a child’s or a young person's condition when a deterioration has occurred, symptom management, or where changes are occurring in the end of life stage, and certification of death when required.

The prescription of medications, when required, following Derian House Standard Operating Procedures, taking cognisance of approved formularies.

Involvement of the child/young person and their family, where appropriate, in any decisions about proposed changes to planned care.

Documentation of all consultations in a child’s/young person’s notes, in line with the GMC code of practice.

Liaise appropriately with care staff at the hospice, with paediatricians and family GPs to ensure discharge information is communicated in a timely manner when changes have been made, and to report to the Chief Nurse.

Support the hospice Advanced Clinical Pracitioners and provide supervision as necessary.

Attend a quarterly one-hour meeting of all GPs.

To undertake continuous professional development appropriate to this post, so as to evidence-base 16 hours per year of this, paid for by Derian House.

To produce evidence of annual General Medical Council appraisal, and when appropriate evidence of revalidation and indemnity.

Please contact Catherine Randall, Chief Nurse, catherine.randall@derianhouse.co.uk or 01257 233300 for further details and/or an informal chat.

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