Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for highly motivated Clinical Nurse Specialists to join the Palliative and End of Life Care Team at Great Western Hospital Foundation Trust. The team is dedicated to ensuring high-quality clinical care and patient experience for patients, their families, and carers with progressive, advanced life-limiting diseases requiring specialist palliative and end of life care.
We are looking for nurses with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The post holders will act as a specialist resource across the acute site and Swindon Intermediate Care Centre using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertake research, audits, and service development within palliative and end of life care.
The successful candidates will also need to demonstrate that they have experience in working with patients in a variety of settings, are able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
This service will be transitioning to HCRG Care Group from the 1st April 2025. The successful candidate may transfer over (under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006) on the terms and conditions they are employed on. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring a smooth transition for everyone involved.
Main duties of the job
A flexible approach is needed to manage the changing picture of palliative and end of life care, with a willingness to respond to the changing needs of the Trust and its patients and their families.
You will work within the Palliative Care and End of Life (EoL) Specialist team providing specialist advice and support to both patients and their families. You will work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team and will work across the Trust.
You will work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) acting as autonomous professional clinical practitioners.
You will promote clinical excellence and provide specialized advice and support to patients, carers, and staff. This must be in line with National and local guidance ensuring practice is patient-centered and evidence-based.
Job responsibilities
* Demonstrate exemplar nursing practice and the implementation of evidence-based care, the provision of a high standard of individualized patient care and experience, upholding the Trust Nursing Strategy which includes the 6Cs.
* Responsible for ensuring own knowledge and compliance of appropriate NMC standards and Trust professional guidelines and that these are applied to practice, including NMC Revalidation.
* Ensure accurate and contemporaneous patient, staff, and other records are maintained, submitted, and stored meeting NMC requirements.
* Acts as a role model for other team members, promoting and demonstrating the standards of care expected. Challenges, influences, and works with other nursing teams to continuously improve standards through shared governance.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience in Palliative Care and EoL nursing.
* Teaching experience.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
* Knowledge of audit and its effectiveness within health care.
Knowledge and skills
* Ability to work autonomously.
* Ability to plan, prioritize, and organize own/others workload.
* Ability to work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to its development.
* Demonstrates excellent interpersonal/communication.
* Adaptable and demonstrates a problem-solving approach.
Qualifications
* Experience at Band 5/6.
* Educated to degree level or willing to study.
* Demonstrates ongoing continuing professional development.
* Advanced Communication Skills.
* Competent in Discussions and Decision Making with Regard to Adult Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP) and Resuscitation (willingness to work towards).
* Advanced history taking and assessment.
* Recognized teaching course.
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.
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Nurse Palliative and End of Life Care
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata.
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