Overview
The Hospital Palliative Care Team provides specialist palliative care advice and support to inpatients across all hospital sites. Weekend and extended hours working will be required.
Responsibilities
* Assess individuals, families and populations holistically using a range of methods, including physical assessment and advanced history taking.
* Use expert knowledge and clinical judgement to decide if investigations are needed and discuss potential diagnoses with members of the MDT or consult other team members for advice.
* Decide on and carry out treatment, which may include prescribing medicines or referring patients to an appropriate specialist.
* Ensure continuity of care.
* Assess and evaluate, with patients and/or carers, the effectiveness of treatment and care and make changes as needed.
* Work autonomously within a wider healthcare team and as a lone practitioner.
* Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries, proactively developing and sustaining new partnerships and networks to influence and improve healthcare delivery systems.
* Work clinically to optimise health and wellbeing, demonstrating decision-making related to history taking and physical assessment of patients.
* Plan, prioritise and manage complete episodes of care with support from the wider team and mentor, working in partnership, delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use, providing direct support to patients and clients.
* Act as key worker where this model exists.
* Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events.
* Draw upon an appropriate range of multi‑agency and inter‑professional resources.
* Appropriately define boundaries in practice and be aware of limitations.
* Promote a high standard of specialist nursing by initiating and coordinating assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of the holistic needs of patients/families through evidence‑based practice following agreed policies, protocols and guidelines.
* Practice high standard of communication, including highly sensitive and complex information, to develop and sustain partnership working with individuals, groups, communities and agencies.
* Maintain adequate patient documentation to NMC requirements for all patients seen and advice given in any practice setting and contribute to clinical activity/data collection as required.
* Palliative Care IPU or specialist team experience is essential.
Job Description
We are seeking a passionate and self‑motivated individual who can work as part of a busy multidisciplinary team supporting the delivery of palliative care throughout the Trust. The team provides specialist and holistic assessments and liaises with a wide range of healthcare professionals to provide compassionate palliative care and excellent end‑of‑life care for patients and their families. Candidates should demonstrate advanced communication skills and nursing leadership qualities and be able to act as a role‑model to staff across the Trust.
Qualifications
* Essential:
o Registered nurse with UK professional registration.
o First level degree.
o Demonstrable evidence of ability to achieve postgraduate study at Level 6 or 7.
o Supervision, mentoring or facilitating workplace learning qualification.
o Palliative Care IPU or specialist team experience.
* Desirable:
o Completed or completing Level 7 MSc relevant to Palliative Care.
o Leadership course or qualification.
o Evidence of clinical audits or service evaluation.
o Evidence of delivering educational teaching and associated evaluations, internally and/or externally to the organisation.
o Advanced communication skills training.
o Excellent clinical and practical skills.
o Awareness of clinical governance issues and measures of quality.
o Experience with holistic symptom assessment.
o Experience of team leadership or management skills.
o Experience of applying research evidence to own clinical practice.
o Experience of audit, service evaluation or quality improvement in practice.
o Advanced history taking and assessment skills training.
o Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Office.
o Advanced keyboard skills.
o Evidence of e‑portfolio use.
* Behavioural skills (Essential):
o Demonstrates a clear vision of the role in developing the clinical service.
o Aligned to the Trust values.
o Conducts themselves in an inclusive, professional manner at all times.
o Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders.
o Willingness and enthusiasm towards working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team.
o Commitment to study for any required postgraduate training needs identified.
o Commitment to evidencing own professional development via work‑based assessments and a portfolio.
o Willingness to engage in clinical supervision to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours across the breadth of the four pillars of practice.
o Able to organise own workload effectively.
o Enthusiasm towards teaching patients, staff and others in the MDT as needed.
o Ability to recognise own limitations, work within scope of practice, act on feedback from supervisors.
o Flexibility to work a variety of shifts, including days/weekends or nights, as required.
o Evidence of effective team working as part of a multi‑disciplinary professional team.
o Excellent communication skills.
Benefits and Working Conditions
Working environment is supportive and friendly with access to mentorship and training.
About Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and acting as a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours – Delivering Compassionate Excellence – focus on compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence, placing patients at the centre of everything we do.
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