The role entails but is not limited to: Clinical practice Provide advanced levels of clinical practice, knowledge and skills. Assess, diagnose, plan and implement programmes of evidence based care and treatment for palliative care patients. Provide specialist advice and support to patients and carers. Provide a visible clinical profile, having both an advisory and clinical input into patient care as directed by the Lead Clinician. Assess the need for and order investigations within scope of practice. Manage medications including assessment, review and non-medical prescribing where appropriate and in accordance with legislation and local policy. Admit, refer and discharge patients in accordance with local policies and guidelines. Participate in the development and evaluation of policies/guidelines/protocols for clinical practice, responding to changes in service demands and taking responsibility for updating and monitoring policies/guidelines/protocols in relation to the role. Prepare accurate and concise reports both verbally and written. Communicate effectively within the multi-disciplinary team, the organisation and across other agencies. Deploy high level communication skills and effective communication strategies to ensure that information and knowledge is imparted sensitively according to the needs of patients, staff and students in training. Continually review, evaluate and develop own role and clinical practice responding to changes in service demands. Plan and manage own workload and the workload of the service in a flexible manner and manage patient caseload, ensuring that service provision meets the needs of patients. Keep relevant records and submit reports contemporaneously and in a professionally acceptable manner. Promote a positive relationship with all stakeholders within the service and externally. Contribute to the clinical governance process, including adverse incident reporting/investigation and the management of complaints, as appropriate. Leadership Develop the community team workforce and hold line management responsibilities for all direct reports. Ensure Community services team have regular 1-1's, appraisals are completed in a timely manner and sickness/absence is managed within St Giles Hospice policy and procedures. Be a role model for standards of care and professional behaviour through clinical practice. Act as a resource and provide advice, information and support to nursing, Allied Health Professions (AHP) and medical staff. Lead and contribute to the development of the multi-disciplinary team/team objectives for the service/speciality. Contribute to local, regional and national clinical networks and speciality specific groups, working in partnership with other key professionals. Maintain personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent with organisational and professional guidelines. Ensure appropriate use of resources in order to meet service/patient needs identifying gaps in service provision in partnership with other professionals and implementing changes required to improve services. Empower, motivate and influence others to advance practice to benefit patient care. Evidence Based Practice Collect and collate data as required in order to inform internal and external professional and operational bodies. Evaluate clinical practice through audit of the service, developing and managing strategies to address any shortfalls. Demonstrate knowledge of current evidence in all aspects of work and to advise others on the implementation of relevant findings. Be involved in research projects in response to identified service needs in accordance with clinical governance. Publish any research, service improvement activities and audit programmes to raise the profile of the organisation. Attend relevant meetings and conferences. Education & Development Identify own development needs in line with service requirements within personal development plan to inform the annual review process. Continue to develop own skills, knowledge and practice in the context of service needs. Maintain professional portfolio to demonstrate competency. Contribute to the development of a clinical environment that is conducive to supporting the education and learning of all staff and students. Participate in the development, delivery and evaluation of relevant palliative and end of life care teaching programmes for all disciplines and grades of staff, e.g. AHP, nursing and medical, client group and carers within the organisation and beyond. Act as mentor/preceptor and resource person for other staff, as appropriate to the role. Ensure mentorship training is updated. Provide clinical supervision both within and external to the organisation as required, supporting development of individuals and practice. Just so you know: We may review applications before the application review date, however, if you apply after the application review date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role, this may be earlier than the closing date. If you have not heard within 14 days of the application close date, then please consider that your application has been unsuccessful at this time. As part of your application your data will be managed in line with St Giles Hospice Privacy Policy and kept for 6 months. If you would like to see this in full, please visit