Job overview
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative and End of Life Care
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Palliative Care Specialist Team in one of the country’s largest acute NHS Trusts.
The post will be based within the existing Specialist Palliative Care Team offering ongoing support, working alongside staff to ensure that people with specialist palliative care needs are in receipt of the care they require to achieve the best quality of life possible. The post will be based at Newham Hospital.
This post holder will be highly skilled with relevant extensive palliative care experience to support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient, and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is both evidence based and reflects current best practice.
Using Specialist Palliative care skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness.
This post will contribute to a networked service in order to facilitate access to assessment, advance care planning and treatment for a specific cohort of patients and their families with complex palliative care needs, working in partnership with generic ward staff and specialist community teams for those that are being rapidly discharged home for terminal care.
Main duties of the job
Act as a specialist resource across the whole system 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, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care.
Additionally, this post will be flexible and proactively support a move towards 7 day a week working with the existing CNS teams across all Barts Health sites. During main hours of operation providing cover over the weekends as well as Bank holidays
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Appropriate NMC registration (Adult Nursing)
2. Degree level study Masters degree or willingness to work towards this Palliative care qualification
3. Mentorship/ Teaching qualification
4. Advanced Communication Skills course or similar
Desirable criteria
5. Physical Assessment.
6. Independent Nurse Prescriber or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Extensive experience within Palliative/ end of life care/long term conditions
8. Minimum of 3 years’ experience of working at B6 level
9. Experience of autonomously managing a clinical caseload.
10. Experience of delivering educational sessions and developing training programmes
11. Willingness to participate in 7 day working/ on call rota
12. Experience of managing challenging situations and ethical dilemmas
13. Experience of engaging in Advance Care Planning discussions with patients and their families
14. Knowledge and experience of research.
15. Knowledge of local/national Health and Social Care Policy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
16. Demonstrates research-based knowledge of pain and symptom management
17. Able to critically reflect on prescribed interventions.
18. Recognizes professional and corporate responsibility within their role.
19. Knowledge of current professional issues in nursing and palliative care
20. .Aware of drivers for change in the NHS, cancer and palliative care services
Skills
Essential criteria
21. Advanced written and verbal skills
22. Sound organizational skills, including ability to give direction
23. Excellent knowledge of the principles and practice of specialist and supportive palliative care.
24. Act as a role model
25. Able to analyse and discuss factors that impact upon interdisciplinary working
26. Experience of initiating and managing change
27. Previous participation in quality initiatives or audit
28. Computer skills
29. Able to work well within a team and also independently
30. Flexible in approach in order to meet the demands of the service
**Visa Sponsorship Information**
Recent changes to UK immigration policy on the Health and Care Visa and Skilled Worker Visa could mean that this role is not eligible for sponsorship or that you may not meet the eligibility criteria.
Sponsorship can only be offered if this post and any individual offered employment meet all the Home Office’s requirements under the UK Skilled Worker visa scheme.
If you are applying from outside the UK or will require sponsorship, please mention this clearly in your application.
To be eligible for sponsorship, the following conditions must be met:
31. Eligible role: The position must be on the UK Skilled Worker visa list. You can check your eligibility here: -.
32. Salary threshold: The role must meet the minimum salary set by the Home Office. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.
33. Skill level: The role must meet the minimum skill requirement of RQF Level 6 or above (graduate level).
34. English language: Applicants must demonstrate English proficiency at CEFR level B2 or higher.
35. Other criteria: Applicants must meet all other criteria as set out by the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI)