Job summary
Would you like to be involved in educating and developing colleagues across the trust in how to provide the highest standards of palliative and end of life care?
We only have one chance to get it right at the end of someone's life, and we're committed to ensuring that the end of a person's life is comfortable and supported, and that our palliative care offering is exemplary.
The opportunity has arisen for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated clinician with a good knowledge of palliative care to join our existing team as our End of Life Educator and Quality Improvement Facilitator. You will play an active role in promoting excellence in palliative and end of life care across the trust and empowering staff to deliver this.
You would have the opportunity to:
Go into a job where you are able to make a difference every day.
Teach and train others working in healthcare.
Inspire, motivate and influence colleagues at all levels.
Are you prepared to join our Specialist Palliative Care Team at a regional specialist centre for Oncology, Major Trauma, Vascular, Neurosurgery and Renal services?
Main duties of the job
A typical day would see you facilitating the development and delivery of multi-professional learning. This will be delivered in both clinical and classroom settings and within online platforms including live teaching and e-learning.
You would be supporting the development of clinical competence in delivering end of life care within the workplace across the range of healthcare professionals in line with agreed directorate and Trust educational development strategies and priorities.
You would develop education and improvement strategies based on continuous improvement methodology.
This would involve utilising a range of strategies to gather feedback on the end of life care delivered across the Trust, including the experiences of patients, their families and members of staff. Methods for gathering this feedback currently utilised include internal trust audits, themes from incidents and complaints and the National Audit of Care at The End of Life (NACEL).
You would be expected to act as a strong role model and provide development, clinical supervision and advice for other staff and students to support them in reaching their full potential.
About us
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & South Cumbria. It is renowned for our teaching, training and support with modern educational facilities and simulation suites. It is a research active organisation with a desire to deliver innovative services which ensure our patients receive the best care possible.
The Hospital Palliative Care Team is a liaison service that works collaboratively with other teams to support adult patients across Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. The service receives an average of 2000 referrals per year and delivers a clinical service across both Royal Preston and Chorley Hospital sites 7 days a week.
As an organisation we are committed to delivering excellent care at the end of life and to the training and development of our staff to ensure that all who are involved are able to provide this. We support this aim by ensuring that all staff who care of patients with life limiting diagnoses are required to complete mandatory training.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary Specialist Palliative Care Team which includes Clinical Nurse Specialists, doctors in Palliative Medicine, administrative staff and our Lead Nurse in Palliative and End of Life Care.
You will also be supported in your role by our directorate business manager, governance leads, audit lead, lead nurse for cancer and end of life care, and the cancer and end of life education hub. You will develop close working relationships with other teams involved in the delivery of end of life education across the organisation including our bereavement team, other clinical educators and chaplaincy team. You will also be expected to work with others across Central Lancashire and the wider Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS. You will link into the L&SC Education Strategy Group and work alongside educators across the region to locally deliver agreed initiatives.
You will be expected to take a lead role in designing and delivering education aimed at improving end of life care across our organisation and the wider locality. This will include the delivery of end of life mandatory training for non-medical staff. We use a variety of platforms and educational approaches including e-learning, online training via MS Teams, classroom teaching and ward based education.
You will be part of a team that reviews the outcomes of audits, themes from incidents and complaints, national and local policies and our local and regional strategies to plan education initiatives and monitor their impact. As part of this you will lead on the data collection for the NACEL audit and be a key point of contact between our organisation and the national team.
You would be expected to attend directorate business meetings, and audit and governance meetings, and attend the Trusts End of Life Education Group. You would be expected to provide regular reports on education compliance across the Trust and ongoing education initiatives to these meetings and others when requested.
It is not possible to include everything that we do in one advert. For any questions that you may have before applying please contact our Lead Nurse Catriona Jackson on 01772 522055 or Catriona.jackson@lthtr.nhs.uk.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary Specialist Palliative Care Team which includes Clinical Nurse Specialists, doctors in Palliative Medicine, administrative staff and our Lead Nurse in Palliative and End of Life Care.
You will also be supported in your role by our directorate business manager, governance leads, audit lead, lead nurse for cancer and end of life care, and the cancer and end of life education hub. You will develop close working relationships with other teams involved in the delivery of end of life education across the organisation including our bereavement team, other clinical educators and chaplaincy team. You will also be expected to work with others across Central Lancashire and the wider Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS. You will link into the L&SC Education Strategy Group and work alongside educators across the region to locally deliver agreed initiatives.
You will be expected to take a lead role in designing and delivering education aimed at improving end of life care across our organisation and the wider locality. This will include the delivery of end of life mandatory training for non-medical staff. We use a variety of platforms and educational approaches including e-learning, online training via MS Teams, classroom teaching and ward based education.
You will be part of a team that reviews the outcomes of audits, themes from incidents and complaints, national and local policies and our local and regional strategies to plan education initiatives and monitor their impact. As part of this you will lead on the data collection for the NACEL audit and be a key point of contact between our organisation and the national team.
You would be expected to attend directorate business meetings, and audit and governance meetings, and attend the Trusts End of Life Education Group. You would be expected to provide regular reports on education compliance across the Trust and ongoing education initiatives to these meetings and others when requested.
It is not possible to include everything that we do in one advert. For any questions that you may have before applying please contact our Lead Nurse Catriona Jackson on 01772 522055 or Catriona.jackson@lthtr.nhs.uk.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- oProfessional clinical qualification
- oCurrent professional Body registration
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
- oTeaching Qualification
- oMentorship qualification
Desirable
- Leadership/Management qualification or willingness to undertake
- Master's degree or willingness to work towards
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oHighly motivated and experienced practitioner with substantive range of experience within palliative care
- oExperience in delivering education
- oProven leadership experience including delivering to targets and service improvement
- oDemonstrates current knowledge of professional and NHS issues and the implication for clinical environment
- oLeadership of teams or change initiatives
- oKnowledge of national and local agenda relative to palliative care
Desirable
- oExperience of designing and evaluating education programs
- oLinks with higher education institutions
- oEvidence of implementing national guidelines into local practices
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- oProfessional clinical qualification
- oCurrent professional Body registration
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
- oTeaching Qualification
- oMentorship qualification
Desirable
- Leadership/Management qualification or willingness to undertake
- Master's degree or willingness to work towards
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oHighly motivated and experienced practitioner with substantive range of experience within palliative care
- oExperience in delivering education
- oProven leadership experience including delivering to targets and service improvement
- oDemonstrates current knowledge of professional and NHS issues and the implication for clinical environment
- oLeadership of teams or change initiatives
- oKnowledge of national and local agenda relative to palliative care
Desirable
- oExperience of designing and evaluating education programs
- oLinks with higher education institutions
- oEvidence of implementing national guidelines into local practices
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).
