We have an exciting twelve-month Specialist Palliative Nurse developmental opportunity to join a wonderful, dynamic patient-focused team providing high quality services to our local community.
This Band 5 role will provide you with the opportunity to learn the delivery of high standard palliative care provided to patients in their homes, and progress to developing your leadership skills supporting your team.
A twelve-month developmental programme will be set to ensure competencies, quality and capability. After twelve months the role can progress to a Band 6 following successful completion of set competencies.
Looking for a new challenge? Could you be our new Trainee?
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (including weekends, bank holidays, nights and on-call)
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work as a Trainee Specialist Palliative Nurse and as part of a highly active community team contributing to the provision of 24/7 Specialist Palliative/End of Life Care. Responsibilities will not only be for providing care, but for providing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals within the community.
The postholder will be trained to provide support to patients in their own homes or preferred place of care who have palliative or end of life care needs, raising clinical standards and promoting a learning environment for other health care providers. They will learn to be responsible for planning, assessing, implementing, and evaluating care in partnership with the Multidisciplinary Teams and out of hours providers.
About us
At Mountbatten, making our employees feel valued is as important to us as making sure that our patients are safe. We are looking for people that live our values to help us make a difference to the thousands of patients and their families who come to us for help and support every year.
Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those close to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.
Our Values
We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other.
We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do.
We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources.
We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others.
Job responsibilities
* To provide an environment that encourages patients and their families to play an active part in their care enabling them to voice their wishes about current and future care requirements.
* To provide advanced levels of clinical decision-making through assessment and interpretation of clinical information to support patients, families and carers who have complex or rapidly changing physical symptoms, emotional or practical needs.
* To assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients care needs as required by your designated patients, including admittance to the Hospice/Hospital and advanced care planning including identifying their preferred place of death.
* Provide appropriate pain and symptom management and provide directional support for psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, their families, and carers.
* Provide support, information and advice to patients, families, colleagues, and other health and social care professionals, including supporting the Mountbatten Care Co-Ordination Centre.
* Prioritise daily duties in response to patients and families requirements in a manner that maintains and promotes quality, NMC/HCPC code of practice, the patients care needs and the values of Mountbatten.
* To be fully conversant with organisational medicines policies and palliative care guidelines, algorithms and administer medication in line with these controls procedures.
* To provide training support in the use of syringe drivers and provide teaching to others including Registered Nurses and students in collaboration with the Community Team and other professionals.
* In accordance with Mountbatten Infection Control policy and procedures, promote an environment that supports infection prevention and control policies and procedures, ensuring that they and other staff practice in accordance with these documents.
* The postholder will act as an advocate for their patients and families ensuring their views are known to the team including in the case of advance care planning and occasions where offered care is declined.
* To be familiar with and implement safeguarding policies, the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (DOLS).
* Identify risks as they arise and carry out risk assessments, taking immediate remedial action as required and updating risk assessments regularly and notify Managers immediately, ensuring these are added to the Risk Register.
* Ensure self and others adhere promptly to the incident reporting policy and complete appropriate forms and action plans.
* Record all patient information on the designated Mountbatten systems, including SystmOne and ensure that all patient records are accurate and maintained in accordance with procedures.
* To provide ongoing support to carers and families at the time of death and in the early days of bereavement including contributing to the provision of bereavement support.
***Please refer to the attached Job Description, which includes the Person Specification, for the full duties of this rewarding role with us here at Mountbatten.***
Person Specification
Skills
* Strong communication skills needed to explain complex and sensitive information effectively in both written and oral to both patients, families, carers and other professionals.
* Organisational skills, ability to prioritise and make effective decisions.
* Understand the specific needs of patients requiring palliative or end of life care.
Abilities
* Physically capability of performing the role and carrying out responsibilities required by the duties of this post.
* Ability to work as part of a team.
* Able to manage competing and complex patient/family priorities.
* Ability to be an effective advocate for the patient with multi-disciplinary teams across all healthcare settings.
* Able to effectively manage own time and work load.
* Able to work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays.
Other
* Emotional Resilience.
* Current Driving Licence and use of a vehicle, with insurance for business purposes.
* A commitment to continuous professional development.
Experience
* Recent palliative care experience.
* Demonstrable experience of caring for vulnerable adults in a care/hospital or hospice setting.
* Experience of working in a hospice care setting.
Qualifications
* First Level Registration with NMC/HCPC and in possession of a relevant degree in Health/Nursing Studies.
* Registered Independent Prescriber (V300) or willingness to undertake.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£29,970 to £36,483 a year (Pay scale effective 1st January 2025)
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