Job summary
Step
into a role where your specialist skills can bring comfort, dignity, and
support to those who need it most. As part of Jersey Hospice Cares team within
Jersey General Hospital, you will help shape compassionate, highquality
palliative care for patients and their families.
Working both independently and
with a multiprofessional team, you will use your expertise, adaptability, and
strong communication to ensure excellence across all areas of the hospital,
while also contributing to education, research, and service improvement. Though
based at JGH, you may occasionally support the community team to ensure
seamless care.
Please note -Applications will be reviewed on a rolling
basis and the post may be filled early.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder
will provide specialist knowledge and skills to ensure the delivery of Specialist
Palliative Care across all areas of the hospital. They will be self-motivated
and able to work independently as well as part of the multi-professional team
prioritising work and flexibly responding to changing situations.
The post holder
will foster good working relationships and communicate with members of the
multi-disciplinary team, other healthcare professionals and service users to
ensure the delivery of high standards of effective specialist palliative care.
They will demonstrate a professional and pro-active approach, providing expert
clinical practice and advice which will also include involvement in clinical
audit, education, and research programmes within JHC.
This job
description should be regarded as a guide to the duties required and is not
definitive or restrictive in any way. The duties of the post may be varied from
time to time in response to changing circumstances. This job description does
not form part of the contract of employment.
About us
Jersey Hospice
Care (JHC) is an independent charity which provides palliative care services
within the community and the hospital, as well as through the King Centre and
In Patient Unit facilities. All services benefit from a well-resourced
multi-professional team with skills and expertise in palliative and end of life
care. These services are provided at no cost to the patient or their family.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Specialist Palliative
Care Team (SPCT) is an island wide teamcovering hospice, community, and
hospital. The team works collaboratively with all health care professionals
island wide to ensure patients and their families receive expert advice and
support in relation to palliative and end of life care in all community
settings whether this is at home, in nursing and residential homes or in
hospital.
The post holder will be
employed by Jersey Hospice Care and whilst based at Jersey General Hospital
there will be a requirement when needed to support care delivery through cross
cover with the community teams.
Core working hours are
9.00am to 5.00pm, although flexibility will be required.The team adopt a
multidisciplinary approach to ensure that it provides complex symptom
management and holistic care in order to provide patients with the optimum quality
of life possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Specialist Palliative
Care Team (SPCT) is an island wide teamcovering hospice, community, and
hospital. The team works collaboratively with all health care professionals
island wide to ensure patients and their families receive expert advice and
support in relation to palliative and end of life care in all community
settings whether this is at home, in nursing and residential homes or in
hospital.
The post holder will be
employed by Jersey Hospice Care and whilst based at Jersey General Hospital
there will be a requirement when needed to support care delivery through cross
cover with the community teams.
Core working hours are
9.00am to 5.00pm, although flexibility will be required.The team adopt a
multidisciplinary approach to ensure that it provides complex symptom
management and holistic care in order to provide patients with the optimum quality
of life possible.
Person Specification
Technical Abilities
Essential
- - Good IT skills e.g., in Word processing, Excel, Outlook and Power Point
- - Car driver/owner with current and clean licence
- - Experience of using cloud based electronic patient records e.g., EMIS
Desirable
- - Previous experience of working with electronic rostering systems
Qualifications
Essential
- - 1st level Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
- - 1st Degree in a Health and/or Social Care related subject
- - Palliative Care award/qualification.
- - Evidence of working towards a post graduate Palliative Care qualification /award or equivalent
- - Demonstrates commitment to successful completion of a nonmedical prescribing qualification
- - Completion of Advanced Communication skills training
Desirable
- - Masters in Palliative Care award at equivalent level modules/credits
- - Post Graduate qualification in palliative care.
- - V300 Independent Nurse Prescriber
- - Mentorship or teaching qualification/module or award
Experience
Essential
- - Has significant post qualification experience of and experience of working within a palliative care setting
- - Expert knowledge of palliative care symptom management, and palliative care/end of life care emergencies
- - Experience of informal teaching
- - Knowledge and participation of audit and benchmarking
- - Knowledge of professional and political issues in health care
- - Clear understanding clinical governance
Desirable
- - Palliative Care experience in a hospital setting
- - Awareness and understanding of commissioned Health Care Standards
- - Previous experience and/or knowledge of working within the charitable sector
- - Previous experience of teaching within a formal setting
- - Previous experience of leading and implementation of change following clinical audit
Person Specification
Technical Abilities
Essential
- - Good IT skills e.g., in Word processing, Excel, Outlook and Power Point
- - Car driver/owner with current and clean licence
- - Experience of using cloud based electronic patient records e.g., EMIS
Desirable
- - Previous experience of working with electronic rostering systems
Qualifications
Essential
- - 1st level Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
- - 1st Degree in a Health and/or Social Care related subject
- - Palliative Care award/qualification.
- - Evidence of working towards a post graduate Palliative Care qualification /award or equivalent
- - Demonstrates commitment to successful completion of a nonmedical prescribing qualification
- - Completion of Advanced Communication skills training
Desirable
- - Masters in Palliative Care award at equivalent level modules/credits
- - Post Graduate qualification in palliative care.
- - V300 Independent Nurse Prescriber
- - Mentorship or teaching qualification/module or award
Experience
Essential
- - Has significant post qualification experience of and experience of working within a palliative care setting
- - Expert knowledge of palliative care symptom management, and palliative care/end of life care emergencies
- - Experience of informal teaching
- - Knowledge and participation of audit and benchmarking
- - Knowledge of professional and political issues in health care
- - Clear understanding clinical governance
Desirable
- - Palliative Care experience in a hospital setting
- - Awareness and understanding of commissioned Health Care Standards
- - Previous experience and/or knowledge of working within the charitable sector
- - Previous experience of teaching within a formal setting
- - Previous experience of leading and implementation of change following clinical audit
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).