Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

Job summary

Band 6 Community SpecialistPalliative Care Nurse - South Team. (Base Location Whitnash Lodge).

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated nurse with a passion for palliative care. Have you undertaken recent study to support your knowledge and skills in this area? Working autonomously and collaboratively within a multi -disciplinary team? Then we are looking for you.

You will demonstrate excellent communication skills in supporting patients and their families and must be committed to providing high quality compassionate care.

A commitment to teaching and education is equally important.

Palliative or end of life care experience is essential. In return, we offer a supportive and friendly environment and access to training and continuous professional development to enhance this role.

If you feel that you have the enthusiasm, passion and knowledge for this post then please apply.

Main duties of the job

To provide a specialist palliative care nursing service across Warwickshire. This includes providing specialist advice, education and training, leadership and change management in pursuit of excellent palliative care.

The post holder will be responsible for actively managing a clinical caseload of patients requiring specialist palliative care.

A key component of this post will be to work collaboratively with others and providing leadership, education, and training in specialist Palliative care to enable the wider workforce to improve their skills. The post holder will work in collaboration with the locality team to deliver the specialist palliative care element of the SWFTs Business plan.

There is requirement to work clinically across Warwickshire in order to meet the needs of the service.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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We appreciate you completing the survey.

Job responsibilities

Supports the delivery of specialist palliative care across Warwickshire

Manages a specialist clinical case load (under the supervision of a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist).

Participates in the development and provision of specialist palliative care education and training within local trust and actively participates in these functions across Warwickshire

Participates in local audits, research projects, as requested by Lead Nurse

Works across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem solving.

Supports and manages change within a complex environment including across organisational boundaries in the pursuit of excellent palliative and end of life care.

Influences the development of others through education and training.

Utilises patient and public experience feedback to drive innovation and change.

Assesses; analyses and interprets specialist needs of patients and carers in order to compare varied options for treatment, care/support.

Provides specialised palliative care advice to patients, carers, and all members of the multidisciplinary health care team concerning clinical investigations, disease and symptom management, and other issues within sphere of competence.

Uses specialist knowledge to refer patients and carers to other specialist/multidisciplinary services.

Advises patients, carers and health care professionals on services impacting on palliative care in both acute and primary care settings in addition to social.

Communication/Key Relationships-Internal, External

Uses high level of interpersonal and communication skills for the purposes of facilitating ethical clinical decision making.

Negotiates with health and social care professionals involving contact with acute and primary care sector together with statutory and voluntary services to facilitate seamless access to and transition between palliative care

services for patients and carers

Uses alternative methods to communicate with patients where there are barriers present i.e. hearing disabilities, mental health, language and sensory impairment.

Ability to communicate extremely sensitive diagnostic information.

Uses counselling skills as a therapeutic tool.

Control of Resources

• Accurately records and manages personally generated patient information in compliance with data protection regulations.
• Maintains data base of service information for the purposes of audit and service development.
• Participates in assessment of patient eligibility for Continuing Health Care funding for nursing care from a palliative care perspective.
• Manages office resources in order to fulfil job responsibilities.
• Uses Microsoft Office to create documents, reports and educational materials.
• Facilitates multidisciplinary teams to deliver high quality palliative care
• Promotes a culture that supports and enables self-management and proactive planning towards the end of life.

Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high standards of person-centred care and using the underpinning philosophy of co-creating care with people with specialist palliative care needs.

Promotes a culture that supports and enables self-management and proactive planning towards the end of life.

Contributes to the delivery of specialist education and training to other professionals involved in patient care.

Supports and contributes to the development and promotion of the nursing service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care.

Supports patient and public involvement within the sphere of practice.

Supports and contributes to quantitative and qualitative data collection of the nursing service in order to provide evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality and contributes to providing Macmillan and SWFT with reports demonstrating the evidence.

Participates in service reviews and initiatives to drive service improvement in the field of specialist palliative care.

Supports and contributes to the implementation and monitoring of adherence to relevant clinical guidelines.

Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway.

Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as patient advocate and representing nursing views.

Acts as a role model for excellent communication skills and expertise Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation skills when dealing with difficult or challenging situations.

Provision of Professional Advice

Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Post-basic qualification in cancer/palliative care or relevant subject or workings towards
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Evidence of training in audit/ quality improvement methodology
• Advanced communications skills training or prepared to work towards
• Evidence of training in teaching/education or prepared to work towards
• Nurse prescribing

Experience

Essential

• Relevant post registration experience, at Band 5 or above, in cancer, palliative &/ or end of life care within current role
• Experience of multi-professional working
• Experience of teaching
• Evidence of good communications skills
• Understanding of Cancer, Palliative and End of life Care National Agendas

Skills

Essential

• IT literate
• Effective communication
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Able to concentrate for extended periods when providing clinical care

Desirable

• Flexible attitude to working
• Exemplar written communication skills

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Diplomatic
• Calm and objective
• Assertive, confident, yet approachable
• Personally and professionally mature
• Recognition of own limitations
• Demonstrates enthusiasm
• Able to travel between sites

Other

Essential

• Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations