Palliative/EOL Frailty Practice Development Sister/Charge Nurse

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

You will be responsible for providing specialist nursing advice and support to professionals working with the frail and elderly, whilst also supporting patients and their families to avoid unnecessary and very often distressing hospital admissions. You will work closely with our Physiotherapist who also has his qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice ensuring those who can benefit from the Living Well Services many rehabilitative and supportive sessions are referred in.

You will be expected to maintain clinical credibility by acting as a clinical practitioner within your own area of expertise.

You will contribute to, and influence the development, evaluation, and audit of this frailty project by working collaboratively with General Practitioners s, primary health care practitioners, statutory and voluntary agencies influencing the delivery of evidence-based care for the patients and families caring for the frail and elderly.

You will lead on, and offer expertise and guidance to professional colleagues, families the general public and others in supporting the best outcome for the frail and elderly.

You will be expected to take advantage of the clinical supervision and practice development available at Trinity and work alongside the Clinical Educator and Practice Facilitator to provide any necessary specialist training.

You will be involved in quality improvements that will promote the health and wellbeing of those who are frail and elderly and their families. In line with health and social care policy, guidelines, and legislation.

You will need to work collaboratively within the PCNs to influence practice relating to the support and treatment of the frail and elderly replicating good practice in those areas that are achieving the best outcomes for this group of patients.

Good practice will need to be cascaded to those areas that are evidenced to have higher than average admission to hospital data whilst ensuring the staff are supported to feel confident with the support they can offer.

A key area of further development will be to achieve the Fylde Coast Strategic Aim that all patients with a palliative diagnosis will have an individual advanced plan of care developed in a caring and supportive way including the appropriate family members as required. This will involve developing Advance Care Planning Clinics to support professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be able to support those frail and elderly patients develop a plan of care that meets their needs including the limitations of treatment but also the goals, spiritual needs, and desires of the individual.

You will be expected to demonstrate excellent leadership skills, working as an autonomous practitioner supported by the Senior Clinical Team at Trinity to influence change of practice in different settings in relation to care of the frail and elderly. This will be made possible by providing the education, knowledge, and skills to enable high quality, safe care for the frail and elderly in the most appropriate environment.

You will assist in the development of practice, clinical protocols and policies for the clinical team Identifying, monitoring, and reviewing deficiencies in procedures and implementing remedial action.

You will be required to facilitate the use of up-to-date information technology in order to collate accurate and timely information as and when required.

You will have the skills to encourage and motivate others to be forward thinking in ideas that address the needs of the frail and elderly that will be innovative whilst managing and developing new ways of working, e.g., patient led advance care plan clinics, champions within each area etc.

You will be expected to partake in clinical supervision for your own development.

You will Lead on setting standards and promoting best practice.

You will have the skills to have continuous involvement in research/evaluation and/or development work to identify the priority areas and from reliable data ensuring the most impact on improvement in the care of the frail and elderly.

The role will require you to actively contribute to Practice/Service/Team audit/Research activity as required.

Instigating audit activity as required e.g., new services.

You will have the ability to Identify, apply and disseminate research findings relating to clinical practice.

You will be required to Implement local, regional, and national policies, proposes developments and improvements to service delivery within the Fylde Coast.

Conduct the role in accordance with current legislation, the Trinity values, policies, and procedures.

General Duties:

Attend all appropriate training requirements both statutory and mandatory to comply with legislation.

To comply with GDPR.

Engage in regular supervision and PDRs in accordance with Hospice policy.

To maintain records to meet Hospice guidelines, professional standards and standards set by statutory bodies such as the Care Quality Commission.

Qualifications

Essential

• RN1: Adult Nurse, Level 1 on the Nursing and Midwifery Councils Register
• Relevant degree (or working towards)
• 2 years specialist palliative care experience at band 6 and above
• Teaching/mentorship qualification/ experience
• Independent and supplementary non-medical prescribing
• Principles of Physical Assessment and Diagnosis

Experience

Essential

• 5 years post registration
• 2 years in specialist palliative care
• 2 years in management/ leadership position
• Demonstrable change management
• Budgetary awareness/control
• Experience as Clinical Nurse Specialist or equivalent in-patient experience at senior level

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Demonstrable advanced clinical nursing skills in palliative care
• Demonstrable ability to make clinical decisions and to develop others in this area
• Demonstrable people management skills including:
• Motivation of staff and team building
• Decision making
• Clinical leadership
• Staff development
• Conflict and problem solving
• Expanding skills and knowledge of others
• Initiating and managing change
• Team player
• Understanding of current issues and initiatives relating to palliative care
• IT skills
• Cannulation and venepuncture

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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