Job summary
DO YOU WANT A NEW ROLE WITH IMPROVED JOB SATISFACTION?
AND HIGH QUALITY OF WORK IN A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT?
Are you a motivated, forward thinking, talented individual interested in delivering excellent specialist palliative care within a multidisciplinary team to patients and their families within mid Essex?
Main duties of the job
We are looking for skilled Registered Nurses to be part of our Community Team. You will be skilled in undertaking in-depth holistic assessments to identify patient needs and be able to plan and coordinate care to meet these needs. You will support our Hospice at Home teams to deliver high quality personal care to people at end of life in their own homes. Using your clinical skills, you will work alongside the MDT to provide excellent symptom control, psycho-social and spiritual support for patients who are under the care of the community teams supporting patients and their significant others through to end of life care.
About us
Farleigh Hospice is the leading specialist palliative care provider in mid Essex, providing specialist support to patients and their families in both the community via our multidisciplinary locality care teams, and our inpatient unit. Our team at Farleigh has grown and evolved to meet the changing needs of the community we serve.
As an organisation with a strong social purpose, we understand the strength we gain from having and supporting diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that colleagues from different backgrounds bring allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.
As an organisation keen to develop and retain our staff, we will provide successful candidates at all levels with:
1. Bespoke induction.
2. Principles of Palliative Care course
3. Access to educational opportunities provided by our internal Education Team
4. Opportunities for inpatient palliative care experience
5. Access to external study days and conferences
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Purpose
As aRegistered Nurse you will work within a multi-disciplinary team providingclinical care, navigation, coordination and support to hospicepatients and their families
Throughholistic assessment provide information, advice, psychosocial andspiritual care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs,supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary toappropriate health and social care professionals
Towork in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to accessrelevant health and social care, information and support when they needit. Support people to access, identify, appraise andinterpret information, to enable them to determine their own future
Tomaintain effective communication skills to deliver highly emotiveinformation clearly, sensitively and unambiguously with staff, patients,families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronicmeans
Towork collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) sharingthe clinical caseload of patients/carers withinthe locality/in-patient unit for patients whohave palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely careis coordinated and delivered
Towork as part of the multi-disciplinary team ,seeking advice fromcolleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required, in order tomake sound decisions around palliative and end of life care
Tosupport management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce fromnovice to expert to work as one team
Tosupport any streamlined locality/IPU processes and services byembedding quality improvement methodology including clear outcome measures toproduce efficient and highly performing community services
Tosupport the Hospice in building strong relationships with external partners andstakeholders and promote the good reputation of theHospice local trusts, CCG, health and social care partners,businesses and voluntary organisations
Tosupport and guide Health Care Assistants, Healthcare SupportWorkers and volunteers in their daily practice
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
6. Proven post registration experience
7. Experience in the delivery of end of life and palliative care or related disciplines
Desirable
8. Experience of holistic assessment and complex symptom management
9. Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
10. Experience of working unsupervised - Lone Working
Qualifications
Essential
11. Nurse Registration
12. Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
13. Advanced Communications Skills Training
Skills Knowledge Qualities
Essential
14. Proven ability of successfully working with people and handling difficult and sometimes complex situations
15. Ability to work under pressure, manage own stress and emotional responses and be aware of stress in others
16. Ability to use a range of IT systems and software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365 and electronic patient record systems (such as SystmOne), as well as virtual systems Zoom, MS Teams
17. Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
18. Ability to motivate self and others and to lead by example
19. Able to effectively resolve professional and ethical issues
20. Ability to prioritise issues and tasks
21. Good oral & written communication and interpersonal skills
Attributes
Essential
22. Passionate about Hospice Care and enthusiasm for the vision of the organisation
23. Team player who can work as part of our One Team ethos
24. Good level of emotional intelligence and resilience
25. Flexible approach to work, with ability to work out of hours on occasions
26. Committed to the development of palliative care skills in others
27. Committed to working in partnership with people their relatives and carers other organisations and agencies
Other Requirements
Essential
28. Driving licence and access to vehicle
29. Satisfactory