Lead Nurse (Specialist Palliative Care / End of Life Care(EOLC))
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This role will be part of the Growing the Community and Friarage collaborative team working in close collaboration with the Head of Nursing, Clinical Director and Service Manager. You will encourage innovation, creativity and professional challenge in the interests of patient care and professional practice through clinical leadership that empowers, inspires and motivates the workforce, and provides a visible and supportive presence.
You will provide excellent clinical leadership and management to the specialist palliative care service and to wards and departments, working with patients & staff, evaluating existing services and providing innovative and novel models of care. The post is also responsible for the delivery of EOLC across the trust working across all collaboratives to ensure EOLC is of the highest standard. The post holder will be responsible for coordinating & ensuring safe standards of care, monitoring the quality and patient experience of care given.
This is an opportunity to develop your nursing career and offers the opportunity to develop skills in leading a clinical team alongside working strategically to influence care in a large progressive organisation. Within South Tees we have an ambitious strategy to improve palliative and end of life care for the patients we serve. You will be supported in your role by senior nursing & medical staff who are committed to delivering a high-quality service alongside supporting the development of your nursing career.
Main duties of the job
To lead and manage the integrated specialist palliative care nursing team across the trust. The role will provide support, expert professional advice, information, coaching, supervision, education and leadership to other staff within their area as well as within the wider multidisciplinary teams. The post is also responsible for the delivery of End of Life Care across the trust working across all collaboratives to ensure EOLC is of the highest standard.
You will be responsible for coordinating and ensuring safe standards of care, monitoring the quality and patient experience.
You will lead on the implementation of the national "Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life care" ensuring a robust trust wide system is in place to achieve the 6 key ambitions highlighted within the Ambitions framework. This will be underpinned by the delivery of timely, compassionate and effective care to all patients and carers. There will be a requirement to be an effective role model with the ability to influence change.
They will provide operational management, service development and people management for the trust wide specialist palliative care service and will work across collaboratives to provide a streamlined service with delegated responsibility from the service manager for day to day operational remit.
Must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers.
* Explore leadership within the NHS
* Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
* Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
* Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
* Management and clinical skills with well-developed leadership, influencing skills and the ability to engage, influence and motivate
* Knowledge and a proven track record of recent operational and clinical nursing/midwifery management and the ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working
* Knowledge and demonstrable capability of service improvements, strategies for infection control and transformational leadership
* To have a working knowledge in relation to the national ambitions for end of life care, end of life strategy and CQC requirements
* Expert Clinical skills within a relevant field appropriate to the role.
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* Registered Adult Nurse with current NMC registration
* Evidence of delivering education
* Cancer/Palliative care related module
* A Masters level Degree or evidence of Study at Masters level and/or equivalent demonstrable experience.
EXPERIENCE
* Significant post-registration experience, with substantial experience working in cancer and/or specialist palliative care; or working within a speciality with a significant element of palliative care, at a senior level
* Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice
* Evidence of expert clinical skills in field of cancer and palliative care.
* Evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together.
* Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.
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.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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