Professional Development Nurse in End of Life Care
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Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this position.
* To support the development of enhanced clinical skill in end‑of‑life care, ensuring access to appropriate development to maintain a competent workforce.
* The post holder will provide mentorship and work‑based learning facilitation, in‑house curriculum design and teaching in end‑of‑life care.
* To perform an expert clinical advisor and leadership role and professional support for the community teams, to ensure that safe and effective, high‑quality evidence‑based care is delivered in an efficient and cost‑effective manner, ensuring that performance management targets are met and evidenced through data production and analysis.
* Developing clinical governance through the support, monitoring and implementation of enhanced clinical standards and learning within the clinical services.
* The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care professionals.
* You will be committed to the development of the team through effective leadership and be given the opportunity to develop your own clinical skills through the delivery of a wide range of evidence‑based care and an active personal development plan. You must possess excellent communication, assessment and care planning skills and have an excellent knowledge of clinical standards.
* Proven Senior Nurse clinical experience at Band 6 or equivalent in an acute or community setting, minimum two years working at this level.
* Community Nursing experience.
* Experience in End‑of‑Life Care/equivalent qualifications.
* Experience of effectively working in collaboration and negotiating across organisational boundaries.
* Experience of change management and implementing in practice.
* Teaching/mentoring experience.
* Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision.
* Ability to undertake audit.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values:
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Olabisi Kay Flanders‑Nivet
Job title: Matron Greenwich District Nursing
Email address: kay.flanders-nivet@nhs.net
Telephone number: 02083197062
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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