Responsibilities
Enhance end‑of‑life care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family, and to provide timely care in the person’s preferred place.
Support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient and high‑quality care to people with complex specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is evidence‑based and reflects current best practice.
Manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life‑challenging illness in a community setting.
Act as a specialist resource across the 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.
Undertake research, audits and service development within palliative and end‑of‑life care.
Jointly manage the team and participate in a 7‑day rota.
Lead, engage and empower other staff and provide a range of formal and informal learning opportunities.
Support the development of team members through induction, appraisals and identification of appropriate training.
Deliver agreed targets, plan and hold regular meetings to inform, update and promote coaching and team development.
Carry out audits on all areas to maintain standards, embedding changes for own and others’ work.
Utilise information technology and ensure guidelines are followed when sharing information.
Maintain a high professional standard in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
If registered as a non‑medic independent prescriber, prescribe in accordance with national, NMC and organisational guidelines within the limits of individual competence, attend prescriber meetings and maintain regular clinical supervision.
Attend key quality and safety forums and contribute to policy development, governance and service improvements.
Work flexibly, contributing to improved ways of working and the development of the service.
Manage longer‑term initiatives and improvement projects as required.
Engage technology and optimise ways of working to improve efficiency.
Actively contribute to team and individual development, embracing opportunities to review the service and build team resilience and capability.
Ensure positive representation in all interactions, working in partnership with other providers to foster a culture of lessons learned from adverse events and enhance role benefits to patient safety and experience.
Promote a culture that respects and values diversity and supports patients, visitors and staff in exercising their rights and recognising the needs of diverse patient groups.
Ensure care within practice is consistent with the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, identifying and reporting patterns of discrimination that undermine quality and diversity in accordance with organisational policies and current legislation.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Degree in a subject relevant to palliative care or equivalent specialist palliative care experience in the community
* Advanced Physical Assessment module or willingness to undertake
* Independent Prescriber or willingness to undertake
* Willingness to undertake further learning as appropriate
Experience
* Advanced communication skills training or equivalent experience dealing with bad news
* Complex casework and collaborating with others
* Significant post‑registration and specialist palliative care experience is essential for this role within a charity, hospice, hospital or community setting
* Experience of working in a community environment
* Experience of managing a caseload of patients independently and managing a diverse caseload
* Management experience including staff and budgets
* Experience of leading on service development projects
* Experience in providing multi‑professional education
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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