Job summary
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Palliative Care Specialist Team in one of the country's largest acute NHS Trusts.
The post will be based within the existing Specialist Palliative Care Team offering ongoing support, working alongside staff to ensure that people with specialist palliative care needs are in receipt of the care they require to achieve the best quality of life possible. The post will be based at The Royal London in Whitechapel; there may be some rotation and cross site working.
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
The post holder will manage the provision of specialist palliative care advice and support to people affected by life limiting illnesses, and also to patients who are at the end of their lives.
This will be achieved both directly through clinical practice and caseload management, and indirectly through leadership, education, research, audit and professional activities.
The aim of the post is to maximise the quality of life of patients with advanced life limiting disease/ those at the end of their lives, and to also provide support and advice to the families/carers of suchpatients.
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 of Urgent Care Plan
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 of Urgent Care Plan
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).
