Main area: Palliative Care
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 34.5 hours per week (Long Days and Nights Required)
Job ref: 287-AMED-265-24
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Woodlands Hospice
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 5 staff nurse to join the team at Woodlands Hospice, based on the Aintree University Hospital site.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager, and Senior Nurses in ensuring high-quality care is delivered within the Inpatient unit.
We are a 15-bedded (Single Rooms) unit.
The candidate needs to be able to work in a fast-paced busy area.
We deliver End of Life care as well as providing treatments, symptom control, and psychological support to our patients.
Ideally, the candidate will have a minimum of 12 months experience working in an acute area or within palliative care. However, candidates with palliative care experience will be considered.
Main duties of the job
1. Perform comprehensive assessment of patients' nursing needs.
2. Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs and varying levels of complexity for patients requiring specialist palliative care.
3. Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
4. Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
5. Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patients' needs are met, especially in relation to discharge planning.
6. Safely administer medicines, infusions, and blood transfusions as prescribed.
7. Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives including sharing sensitive news.
8. Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
9. Act as a link nurse and resource for other nursing staff for a specific area of patient care.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital, and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Responsible for managing and organising the care for a team of patients, allocating resources (staff skills/knowledge and experience) as appropriate to ensure that high-quality specialist palliative care is provided to all our patients and their carers.
2. Assist Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager, and Senior Nurses in achieving and maintaining agreed bed occupancy and patient length of stay targets.
3. Support the Ward Manager and Deputy Ward Manager to maximise best use of clinical resources ensuring the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.
4. Contribute to the development of services within the IPU.
5. Contribute to allocated Care Quality Commission standards of quality and safety as they relate to the Inpatient unit. This may involve membership of working groups on specific areas.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered nurse with current NMC registration
* Diploma in Nursing
Experience
* Post-registration experience and successful completion of Band 5 foundation gateway competencies
* Experience within a relevant clinical setting
* Evidence of working with students
* Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment.
* Recent acute hospital experience, including as a student nurse
Skills
* Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Ability to support less experienced staff
* Ability to problem solve
* Good written and verbal communication skills
* Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing
Other
* Supportive of colleagues
* Ability to work in changing environments
* Committed to high standards of patient care.
* Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
* Maintain both personal and professional development
* Willingness to be flexible and adaptable
Knowledge
* Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance
* Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieves fair, equitable, and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone at the earliest opportunity.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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