Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and passionate Registered Nurse to join our Supportive and Palliative Care Team. This specialist service provides expert symptom management, holistic support and timely advice for patients with complex and life-limiting cardiac and respiratory conditions across the Trust.
In this role, you will carry out specialist assessments, support advance care planning, contribute to rapid clinical decision-making and work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality, person-centred care. You will also play a key role in supporting ward teams with education, guidance and joint reviews.
We are seeking a motivated nurse with excellent communication skills, a passion for improving patient and family experience, and an interest in palliative and supportive care.
Previous experience in the specialty is preferred but not essential, similar relevant or adjacent experience will be considered.
We offer a friendly and supportive team, opportunities for professional development, and involvement in service improvement and audit activities. We encourage prior contact to discuss the role with potential applicants.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Stephen Parish 01223 638747.
Main duties of the job
You will provide specialist supportive and palliative care to patients with complex and life-limiting conditions, completing holistic assessments and developing, delivering and evaluating personalised care plans. Working independently and as part of the MDT, you will offer expert symptom management, advice and emotional support to patients and families across inpatient and outpatient settings.
You will prioritise a varied caseload, support advance care planning, contribute to discharge planning and collaborate with community teams, hospices and primary care. The role includes supporting ward staff, offering specialist guidance and helping facilitate safe, timely care and complex decision-making.
You will communicate effectively with patients, families and colleagues, act as an advocate, contribute to teaching and supervision, and role model compassionate, high-quality care. You will also participate in audit, service improvement and policy development to enhance supportive and palliative care across the Trust.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional adult nursing qualification and clinical knowledge acquired through training to diploma or degree level.
- Plus post graduate training in specialist area OR specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience.
- Registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Experience
Essential
- To use clinical knowledge/expertise, to act as a senior support providing a high standard of skilled care for complex patients with potentially unpredictable treatment and care needs, based on a full assessment of individual needs in co-operation with the multi-disciplinary team.
- To use a range of judgement and assessment skills in planning, delivering and evaluating specialist patient care plans whilst communicating with patients, families and the multi-disciplinary team.
- To collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the hospital, working alongside the consultant to serve as a specialist resource in pain and symptom management. This includes the use of complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, reflexology, and hand or head massage, provided they are appropriately trained.
- In collaboration with patients, family and the multi-disciplinary team, devise, implement and evaluate complex care plans based on the initial patient assessment process, with realistic nursing goals and participate in discharge planning. This will include collaboration with palliative care and hospice teams, primary healthcare teams and voluntary services in the community.
- To be able to prioritise care based upon patient/service need in a busy clinical environment.
- To deliver patient care through appropriate delegation, responding to changes in needs and/or environment. This will include supporting staff and helping facilitate complex discharge planning involving coordination with other agencies.
- To be able to undertake complex nursing interventions for example: administering medications and managing syringe pump infusions.
- To be able to undertake frequent moving and handling tasks relating to patient care utilising mechanical aids with some tasks requiring moderate effort.
- The post holder will have occasional exposure to bodily fluids (including as a result of surgical / medical intervention and in the delivery of activities of daily living) and will have frequent exposure to difficult or emotional circumstances.
- To be able to effectively communicate complex, confidential, and/or sensitive condition related information through a range of interpersonal skills to patients, colleagues, and families (such as providing educational support, complex discharge planning), and act as an advocate when necessary for the patient to facilitate and empower them where possible to self-manage their own condition.
- To be involved in collaboration/partnership working between primary, secondary and tertiary care.
- To manage own patient workload in terms of prioritisation of needs escalating as required supporting team members with their own escalation needs.
- To understand the process of escalation within the Trust ensuring this is done promptly to ensure patient and staff safety and recognising and raising any safeguarding concerns.
- To act independently within NMC code of conduct and Trust policies and procedures and knowing when to appropriately escalate. To uphold Trust policies including lone working policy and practice during any weekend and bank holiday working.
- To act in a professional manner and as a role model to other staff members, providing clinical supervision of junior staff as well as patients and their families.
- To participate in teaching and training to improve supportive and palliative care skills and knowledge in other staff and to participate in clinical supervision.
- To propose and implement policies and changes to clinical working practices for own area.
- To act as a link nurse and undertake audits as required and may occasionally participate in research and development.
- To maintain accurate electronic and/or manual clinical, patient and other records, as appropriate, ensuring that all documentation adheres to the Trust's standards
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional adult nursing qualification and clinical knowledge acquired through training to diploma or degree level.
- Plus post graduate training in specialist area OR specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience.
- Registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Experience
Essential
- To use clinical knowledge/expertise, to act as a senior support providing a high standard of skilled care for complex patients with potentially unpredictable treatment and care needs, based on a full assessment of individual needs in co-operation with the multi-disciplinary team.
- To use a range of judgement and assessment skills in planning, delivering and evaluating specialist patient care plans whilst communicating with patients, families and the multi-disciplinary team.
- To collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the hospital, working alongside the consultant to serve as a specialist resource in pain and symptom management. This includes the use of complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, reflexology, and hand or head massage, provided they are appropriately trained.
- In collaboration with patients, family and the multi-disciplinary team, devise, implement and evaluate complex care plans based on the initial patient assessment process, with realistic nursing goals and participate in discharge planning. This will include collaboration with palliative care and hospice teams, primary healthcare teams and voluntary services in the community.
- To be able to prioritise care based upon patient/service need in a busy clinical environment.
- To deliver patient care through appropriate delegation, responding to changes in needs and/or environment. This will include supporting staff and helping facilitate complex discharge planning involving coordination with other agencies.
- To be able to undertake complex nursing interventions for example: administering medications and managing syringe pump infusions.
- To be able to undertake frequent moving and handling tasks relating to patient care utilising mechanical aids with some tasks requiring moderate effort.
- The post holder will have occasional exposure to bodily fluids (including as a result of surgical / medical intervention and in the delivery of activities of daily living) and will have frequent exposure to difficult or emotional circumstances.
- To be able to effectively communicate complex, confidential, and/or sensitive condition related information through a range of interpersonal skills to patients, colleagues, and families (such as providing educational support, complex discharge planning), and act as an advocate when necessary for the patient to facilitate and empower them where possible to self-manage their own condition.
- To be involved in collaboration/partnership working between primary, secondary and tertiary care.
- To manage own patient workload in terms of prioritisation of needs escalating as required supporting team members with their own escalation needs.
- To understand the process of escalation within the Trust ensuring this is done promptly to ensure patient and staff safety and recognising and raising any safeguarding concerns.
- To act independently within NMC code of conduct and Trust policies and procedures and knowing when to appropriately escalate. To uphold Trust policies including lone working policy and practice during any weekend and bank holiday working.
- To act in a professional manner and as a role model to other staff members, providing clinical supervision of junior staff as well as patients and their families.
- To participate in teaching and training to improve supportive and palliative care skills and knowledge in other staff and to participate in clinical supervision.
- To propose and implement policies and changes to clinical working practices for own area.
- To act as a link nurse and undertake audits as required and may occasionally participate in research and development.
- To maintain accurate electronic and/or manual clinical, patient and other records, as appropriate, ensuring that all documentation adheres to the Trust's standards
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
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).
Additional information
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).
