Palliative Care and End of life Lead Nurse
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Are you an experienced and compassionate palliative care nurse ready to take on a key leadership role at the heart of a dynamic, forward-thinking Trust?
We are delighted to offer a substantive opportunity for a Palliative and End of Life Lead Nurse to join us at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. This pivotal role is ideal for a passionate and motivated professional with a strong background in palliative and end of life care, who is ready to drive meaningful change and deliver outstanding care to patients and their families.
As The Lead Nurse, You Will
* Provide strategic leadership across the hospital, shaping and enhancing palliative and end of life care provision.
* Manage and support a small, skilled team of specialist nurses to ensure high-quality, compassionate, patient-centred care.
* Work collaboratively across the multidisciplinary team (MDT), ensuring holistic, integrated support for patients with complex needs.
* Forge strong partnerships with our community providers, hospice teams, and primary care colleagues to improve continuity of care and patient experience across settings.
* Play a key role in embedding best practice, promoting education and awareness across clinical areas, and contributing to Trust-wide quality improvement initiatives.
This is an exciting time to join the RUH as we continue to strengthen our palliative care offer and ensure every patient receives the dignified, compassionate care they deserve, wherever they are in their journey.
If you’re ready to make a real difference and lead with purpose, we would love to hear from you.
At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kevin Jenner Job title: Divisional director of Nursing (FASS) Email address: kevin.jenner1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01225 428331
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Director
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