Job summary
This post holder will be highly skilled with relevant extensive palliative care experience to support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient, and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is both evidence based and reflects current best practice.
Main duties of the job
Act as a specialist resource across the whole system using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate NMC registration (Adult Nursing)
- Degree level study Masters degree or willingness to work towards this Palliative care qualification
- Mentorship/ Teaching qualification
- Advanced Communication Skills course or similar
Desirable
- Physical Assessment
- Independent Nurse Prescriber or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience within Palliative/ end of life care/long term conditions
- Minimum of 3 years' experience of working at B6 level
- Experience of managing a clinical caseload
- Experience of delivering educational sessions and developing training programmes
- Willingness to participate in 7 day working/ on call rota
- Experience of managing challenging situations and ethical dilemmas
- Knowledge and experience of research
- Knowledge of local/national Health and Social Care Policy
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrated research-based knowledge of pain and symptom management
- Able to critically reflect on prescribed interventions
- Recognizes professional and corporate responsibility within their role
- Knowledge of current professional issues in nursing and palliative care
- Aware of drivers for change in the NHS, cancer and palliative care services
Skills
Essential
- Advanced written and verbal skills
- Sound organizational skills, including ability to give direction
- Excellent knowledge of the principles and practice of specialist and supportive palliative care2
- Act as a role model
- Able to analyse and discuss factors that impact upon interdisciplinary working
- Experience of initiating and managing change
- Previous participation in quality initiatives or audit
- Computer skills
- Able to work well within a team and also independently
- Flexible in approach in order to meet the demands of the service
Self management
Essential
- Ability to priorities workload, balancing clinical and non clinical activities
- Reflective practitioner
- Able to identify own learning and support needs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate NMC registration (Adult Nursing)
- Degree level study Masters degree or willingness to work towards this Palliative care qualification
- Mentorship/ Teaching qualification
- Advanced Communication Skills course or similar
Desirable
- Physical Assessment
- Independent Nurse Prescriber or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience within Palliative/ end of life care/long term conditions
- Minimum of 3 years' experience of working at B6 level
- Experience of managing a clinical caseload
- Experience of delivering educational sessions and developing training programmes
- Willingness to participate in 7 day working/ on call rota
- Experience of managing challenging situations and ethical dilemmas
- Knowledge and experience of research
- Knowledge of local/national Health and Social Care Policy
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrated research-based knowledge of pain and symptom management
- Able to critically reflect on prescribed interventions
- Recognizes professional and corporate responsibility within their role
- Knowledge of current professional issues in nursing and palliative care
- Aware of drivers for change in the NHS, cancer and palliative care services
Skills
Essential
- Advanced written and verbal skills
- Sound organizational skills, including ability to give direction
- Excellent knowledge of the principles and practice of specialist and supportive palliative care2
- Act as a role model
- Able to analyse and discuss factors that impact upon interdisciplinary working
- Experience of initiating and managing change
- Previous participation in quality initiatives or audit
- Computer skills
- Able to work well within a team and also independently
- Flexible in approach in order to meet the demands of the service
Self management
Essential
- Ability to priorities workload, balancing clinical and non clinical activities
- Reflective practitioner
- Able to identify own learning and support needs
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.
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).
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.
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).
