Job 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.
Palliative Care IPU or specialist team experience is essential.
Main duties of the job
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A band specialist nurse position is available in the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust Hospital Palliative Care Team, covering the Churchill, John Radcliffe, Horton and Nuffield sites.
We are seeking a passionate and self-motivated individual who is capable of working 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 facilitate excellent end of life care for patients and their families. We are looking for candidates who demonstrate advanced communication skills and nursing leadership qualities and who are able to act as a role-model to staff across the Trust.
In return we will be able to offer a supportive and friendly working environment, with access to mentorship and training .
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .