About this role
Job summary
Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place.
Main duties of the job
Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place.
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.
Using specialist skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness in a community setting.
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.
Joint management of the team.
Participate in a 7-day rota.
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.
Job description Job responsibilities
Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place.
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.
Using specialist skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness in a community setting.
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.
Joint management of the team.
Participate in a 7-day rota.
Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the persons preferred place.
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.
Using specialist skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness in a community setting.
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.
Joint management of the team.
Participate in a 7-day rota.
Lead, engage and empower other staff and provide a range or formal and informal learning opportunities
Support the development of team members through induction, appraisals and identification of appropriate training
Deliver agreed targets, plan and hold regular meetings to inform, update and to promote coaching and team development
Carry out audits on all areas to maintain standards, which include spot checks in areas of work and embed changes for own work and others
Utilise Information Technology and ensure guidelines are followed when sharing information.
Maintain a high professional standard in accordance with NMC Code of Professional Conduct
If registered as a non-medical independent prescriber, prescribe in accordance with National, NMC and Martlets guidelines and within the limits of their individual competence. Nonmedical prescribers will attend Martlets Nurse Independent Prescribers meetings and maintain regular clinical supervision with their allocated NIP mentor.
Attend and be a key member of the Martlets Quality and Safety Forum and other relevant meetings.
Access managerial support and supervision.
Work in accordance with Martlets policies, procedures and values.
Contribute to a range of policy developments, governance and service improvements.
Work flexibly, contributing to improved ways of working and the development of the service.
Manage longer term initiatives and improvement projects, as required.
Engage technology and optimise ways of working to improve efficiency.
Actively contribute to team and individual development, embracing opportunities to review the service and build team resilience and capability.
Ensure positive representation in all interactions, working in partnership with other providers to foster culture of lessons learnt from adverse events and enhances role Martlets can play to benefit patient safety and patient user experience.
Promote a culture which respects and values diversity and supports patients, visitors and staff in exercising their rights and recognising needs of diverse patient groups.
Ensure care within practice is consistent with the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Identify and report patterns of discrimination which undermine the quality and diversity in accordance with organisational policies and current legislation.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Nurse Degree in a subject relevant to palliative care or equivalent specialist palliative care experience in the community Advanced Physical Assessment module or willingness to undertake Independent Prescriber or willingness to undertake Willingness to undertake further learning as appropriate
Experience Essential
Advanced Communication skills training or equivalent experience dealing with bad news, Complex casework and collaborating with others Significant post registration and specialist palliative care experience is essential for this role within a charity/ hospice/ hospital or community setting Experience of working in a community environment Experience of managing a caseload of patients independently and managing a diverse caseload Management experience including staff and budgets Experience of leading on service development projects Experience in providing multi professional education
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 Southern Hospice Group
Address Titnore Lane
Worthing
West Sussex
BN12 6NZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.stbarnabas-hospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)