About this role
Job summary
Please note: We have two permanent positions available, and one 6 month secondment / fixed term opportunity.
Are you looking to develop your career within Specialist Palliative Care? This could be the perfect opportunity for you.
We are recruiting an experienced palliative care nurse to join the Community Specialist Palliative Care Service. The post holder will have the opportunity to develop their career within an innovative, collaborative, and experienced multi-professional team.
The Service is committed to excellent symptom management and high quality emotional support, enabling patients to be cared for according to their preferences. The team works closely with colleagues across primary, secondary, and social care, as well as the local hospice provider.
The role involves developing advanced skills in the assessment and management of palliative patients, working towards autonomous clinical practice. This includes contributing to diagnosis, treatment planning, and supportive care, as well as communicating complex and distressing information. The post holder will work closely with a wide multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated, high quality care that supports patients and families to achieve the best possible quality of life.
We have a strong commitment to personal and professional development and offer opportunities for continued learning and further academic study. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact the team for an informal discussion or site visit prior to applying.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Nurse provides specialist palliative nursing care for a defined patient and carer population, practicing as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. The post holder delivers care across agreed clinical settings and professional boundaries, working collaboratively with statutory, voluntary and hospice providers to support seamless, patient-centred care.
The role encompasses enhanced clinical assessment and decision-making, leadership in care coordination, contribution to education and practice development, and engagement with service evaluation and research. The post holder is accountable for delivering high quality, evidence based palliative care and works towards increased autonomy and advanced clinical competence within their scope of practice, seeking supervision and support as required.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
*Registered first level nurse with education to Degree level or equivalent. *Advanced communications skills training or be prepared to work towards this. *Evidence of Continuing Education *Car driver with current licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
Desirable
*Experience at delivering education *Post graduate training or equivalent experience with deteriorating , life-limiting conditions *Advanced Communication Qualification *Completion of uDNACPR (NHS South England) *Level 5 Leadership Courses *Level 6 History Taking and Physical Assessment Qualification
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).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address The Rowans Hospice
Purbrook Heath Road, Purbrook
Waterlooville
Hampshire
PO7 5RU
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)