Locality Team Leader - Specialist Nurse

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

1. Team Leadership Under supervision by the Associate Director Patient Care and Communities, create a self-coaching team environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team work.

1.1. Provide the team with a vision around how their objectives link to the Hospice strategy.

1.2. Motivate and inspire team members.

1.3. Coach people in order to help them:

• Develop new skills and recognise and use their and each others talents
• Help them generate their own solutions to the problems they face
• Develop and maintain good relationships,
• Act early and be proactive, competent and confident in managing conflict.
• Overcome barriers and try new things in a safe and supportive environment.
• Motivate, support and mentor each other as team colleagues
• Facilitate problem solving and collaboration
• Ensure discussions and decisions lead to an outcome,
• Be creative, courageous and focused on constant improvement
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives and carers, using specialist advanced communication skills and restorative conversations
• Influence practice and policy through the establishment of partnerships and networks with colleagues
• Promote harmonious relationships within the inter-professional team, supporting the vision and values of the Hospice
• Maintain effective and responsive external partnership working with health and social care colleagues such as Community Teams and Acute Trusts.
• Ensure integration of the various multi-disciplinary professions, particularly in relation to processes

1.4. Assure that the team members have the necessary education and training to effectively participate on the team.

1.5. Recognise and celebrate team and team member accomplishments and exceptional performance

1.6. Monitor the performance and promote the development of the team, providing regular supervision and development conversations, observing their practice and coaching them to develop new skills.

1.7. Manage and monitor the proper and effective use of the financial and other resources available to your service.

1.8. Actively and regularly engage your team in how they can help achieve the strategic aims of the Hospice.

1.9. Support people to achieve their development outcomes.

1.10. To deputise for the Associate Director Patient Care and Communities, supporting the strategic delivery of all services pertaining to the community. Locality Team Leader Specialist Nurse JD May 2025

1.11. To submit statistics and activity reports as required.

1.12. To liaise frequently with the members of the team to ensure that patients on the caseload are reviewed and supported according to the caseload management guidelines.

1.13. To support the Associate Director Patient Care and Communities to implement the Princess Alice Hospice Clinical Strategy and Service Plan.

1.14. To receive and disseminate information through chairing locality team meetings and attendance at other relevant meetings.

1.15. Supports the delivery of activity by clinical volunteers who work with the Community team ensuring integration and support needs are met.

1.16. Participates in the recruitment, selection and retention of staff, to ensure that adequate staffing levels and skill mix are maintained, and that staff receive appropriate induction and personal development plans.

1.17. Supports multi-professional caseload management for all patients, ensuring that all necessary information on patients is available as appropriate.

1.18. Under supervision and leadership by the Associate Director Patient Care and Communities contribute to the Hospice Governance arrangements and apply Clinical Governance and Risk Management standards ensuring that policies and guidelines are available and adhered to.

2. Clinical

2.1. Participates and takes a lead role in multi professional team meetings to provide informed specialist practitioner opinion and care management options.

2.2. Will spend a minimum of 60 per cent of the working week in direct contact with patients and families

2.3. Promotes and supports the team to deliver a seamless package of care, including liaison with external agencies, to enable patients to be managed in their preferred place of care

2.4. Develops a team that is responsive and skilled in physical assessment and non -medical prescribing, ensuring that any advice given is within the scope of practice

2.5. Under the supervision of the Associate Director Patient Care and Communities develop clinical leadership for the Hospice at Home Team throughout the patient pathway from referral, triage, advance care planning to preferred place of care and death at the end of life.

2.6. To participate in cover and the 24 hour on-call rota as appropriate, that covers the Princess Alice Hospice catchment area.

3. Educational

3.1. Keeps abreast of current developments in Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life Care, and the implications they may have to clinical practice.

3.2. Acts as a role model and mentor, providing informal education and support to colleagues in their provision of care.

3.3. Promotes a learning environment for students, other clinical placements and visitors to the Team specifically and the Hospice generally.

3.4. Participates in the development and delivery of formal educational programs internally and with external clinical and academic partners.

3.5. Participates and leads as appropriate in developing and auditing nursing specific and multiprofessional standards.

3.6. Participates in and supports nursing specific and collaborative clinical research, and leads in the development of evidence based practice.

4. Professional

4.1. Ensures own Professional registration is valid and current and adheres to own code and scope ofprofessional practice.

4.2. Ensures that a professional portfolio is kept and updated in accordance with revalidation as appropriate

4.3. Ensures that personal knowledge and skills meet the requirements of the post and that they are in line with current practice.

4.4. Acts as an ambassador for the Hospice at all times, including representing the Hospice in fundraising and public relations activities as requested.

5. Other responsibilities

5.1. To undertake any other such duties or general tasks and hours of work as may reasonably be required and to work in other locations within the hospice organisation.

5.2. A job description is not a rigid or inflexible document but acts to provide guidelines to the duties expected while in post.

5.3. This job description will be reviewed and amended in the light of changing professional demands.

Qualifications

Current Professional Registration and qualification

Relevant training appropriate to role

Palliative Care Qualification

Leadership training or willingness to undertake

Willingness to undertake further training as required

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of highly developed communication skills both written and verbal
• Record of demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to demonstrate understanding of professional integration
• Able to work effectively in an emotionally demanding specialty
• Experience of working in the Community
• Experience of working in Palliative care
• Understanding of specialist palliative care provision
• Computer literate and supportive of digital technology
• Clear Leadership capabilities
• Clinical assessment and evaluation
• Decision making skills
• Organisational skills
• Ability to influence

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Flexible, motivated, self-directed
• Pleasant and calm manner
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work well within a team
• Car driver/full driving licence
• Cover on-call rota including weekends and bank holidays as appropriate
• Awareness of, and commitment to the Mission, Vision and Values of the Hospice

Qualifications

Essential

• Current Professional Registration and qualification
• Relevant training appropriate to role
• Palliative Care Qualification
• Leadership training or willingness to undertake
• Willingness to undertake further training as required

Particular skills and aptitudes

Essential

• Demonstrate team working and building and maintaining effective working relationships in a
• multidisciplinary environment and across health care boundaries
• Able to work under pressure and to prioritise
• Quality focused with an innovative approach and able to solve complex problems
• Support Advanced clinical practice and assessment skills
• Commitment to the development of staff

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).