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An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Consultant for Adult Palliative Care/Associate Nurse Consultant in Adult Palliative Care. This role will be part of the Community and Neighbourhood Health Clinical Service Unit (CSU) team working in close collaboration with the Deputy Head of Nursing, Lead Nurse for SPC & EOLC, Clinical Director and Service Manager.
Are you a clinical expert who puts the clinical and holistic needs of our patients first to ensure safe, high quality and effective care? Are you a passionate advanced practitioner with a specialist interest in Adult Palliative Care? If so, you will provide strong and effective clinical leadership to the specialist palliative care nursing team across the community and acute services. You will act as an expert practitioner providing advice and consultancy for the management of patients with complex specialist palliative care needs.
You will work with patients & staff, evaluating existing services and providing innovative and novel models of care. You will act as an exemplary role model for expert clinical nursing practice, demonstrating high professional standards, values and attitudes with a patient‑centred approach.
Within South Tees we have an ambitious strategy to improve palliative and end‑of‑life care for the patients we serve. You will be supported in your role by senior nursing & medical staff who are committed to delivering a high‑quality service alongside supporting the development of your nursing career.
Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role. This role will be at an advanced clinical level in direct delivery of high quality palliative care making critical clinical decisions based on expert knowledge and clinical assessment skills. Working across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out by Health Education England (2017).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within the nursing/AHP SPC teams in developing the service to improve the patient experience and supporting Palliative Medicine Consultants with day‑to‑day clinical activity. The postholder will provide expert clinical care to patients with specialist palliative care needs via direct assessment and also by providing expert knowledge and assistance to clinical teams across the trust. To provide the highest standard of expert holistic care for patients through utilisation of advanced clinical skills and advice in the assessment and management of patients, working autonomously and with the multi‑disciplinary team to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
This role may be considered a development role as an Associate Nurse Consultant Band 8a depending on skills, qualifications and experience with the aim of progression to Nurse Consultant Band 8b. We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Skills & Training
* Your Leadership Impact
* Leading your Team to Success
* Leading Into the Future
* Service Improvement for Beginners
* Developing your Service Improvement Skills
* Lean Practitioner
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in‑house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Contact Details
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sarah Truman
Job title: Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Care
Email: sarah.truman1@nhs.net
Telephone: 07411695760
Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Hospitals and Health Care
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