Job summary
We have a new, exciting opportunity to join the Palliative and End of Life Care Team at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. Our new Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist/Education Lead post will have a 50% Clinical Nurse Specialist and 50% Palliative Care Education focus. This new role is part of the team expansion (plus band 6 Specialist Nurse/Educator, plus band 6 Specialist Nurse).
Based at Queen Alexandra Hospital Cosham, you will join an established, experienced team. You will contribute to the implementation of the Palliative and End of Life Care Action Plan, including delivery of the clinical service as well as taking responsibility for agreed education aspects of it. You will work closely with colleagues within the Trust as well as the local Integrated Care System multi-professional providers.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking, autonomous nurse to join our service. We are looking for an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative and End of Life Care, eager to work in the acute sector, who will also lead education as a major part of their role.
We are a lively team, so expect debate and conversation!
Main duties of the job
You will be a valued member of the team, working as an integral part of the hospital palliative and end of life care team. You will provide specialist palliative care advice and support to people (and their families) affected by life limiting illnesses, those who are at the end of their lives as well as the core teams looking after them.
You will provide expert advice and management for patients (and their families) with life limiting illnesses, to enable timely and effective care and demonstrate a high level of expertise in palliative and end of life care, have the ability to work independently and within a team, as well as teaching, organisation, audit and service development.
You will be a Non-Medical (Independent) Prescriber (Palliative and End of Life Care Specialty), prescribing medicine in line with trust policies and guidelines within professional scope of practice.
Reporting to the Nurse Consultant/Trust Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care and working closely with the Professional Lead, you will contribute to the Palliative and End of Life Care Action Plan, taking responsibility for agreed education aspects of it as well as leadership and line management to the education component of another new post band 6 Specialist Nurse/Educator.
Your post will support a move towards 7 day a week working, during main hours of operation providing specialist palliative and end of life care cover to the hospital at weekends as well as Bank holidays.
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans
status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Clinical/Professional
- Participate and contribute to the achievement of the Palliative and End of Life Care Action Plan.
- Demonstrate politeness, courtesy, and sensitivity in providing compassionate care for patients, visitors/relatives, and colleagues.
- Contribute towards sharing good practice across the multidisciplinary team.
- Work cohesively with all members of the multidisciplinary team and promote effective liaison with the team in ensuring that the very best services to patients are provided at all times.
- Work closely with multi-professional colleagues including Medical Examiners, Bereavement Team, Discharge Planning Team, Chaplaincy, Family Liaison Officers, Pharmacy Team to provide safe, experience and quality of palliative and end of life care.
- Communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team, participate in motivating and supporting team members and maintain confidentiality with patients and carers.
- Give written and verbal advice/teaching to patients and carers.
- Demonstrate excellent advanced communication skills with patients and carers ensuring that information is appropriate, timely, delivered sensitively and based on individual needs.
- Provide patients and staff with specialist advice to manage universal and/or complex symptoms.
- Analyse complex patient and family situations establishing a therapeutic relationship to assist the individual to adjust to their illness and care.
- As a Non-Medical (Independent) Prescriber (v300), prescribe medicine in line with trust policies and guidelines within professional scope of practice.
- Carry out Verification of Expected/Unexpected Death in line with trust polices and guidelines.
- Carry out uDNACPR/ReSPECT conversations and documentation in line with trust policies and guidelines and in line with the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act (2005).
- Provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients with a life limiting illness, their families and carers.
- Continuously develop, improve, and promote the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost effective care utilising the support and guidance of senior colleagues.
- Continuously develop and share expertise within the multidisciplinary team.
- Act as a resource in the care of patients needs, ensuring an optimum level of service to patients and their families/carers.
- Work closely with community and relevant network, other hospital and community staff to ensure an effective seamless service.
- Provide effective communication systems of support for patients.
- Build up a skill set to embed patient and public involvement within the sphere of specialist nursing practice.
- Ensure that all patients and families are aware of all treatment options, including clinical trials.
- Work as patient advocate, to help negotiate the patient journey and ensure optimum care is provided to each patient.
- Develop links with other organisations providing support and information.
- Adhere to infection control guidelines and procedures.
- Act as a positive role model for nurses in the hospital through the demonstration of excellent communication and clinical skills.
- Share experience, knowledge and expertise and role modelling to multi-professional staff.
- Through supervision and support develop the skills to analyse and respond to complex clinical situations utilising specialist knowledge to assess a range of options to formulate solutions and recommendations.
- As necessary, discuss and triage up issues of concern or for discussion to senior members of the team (e.g., Nurse Consultant, Professional Lead, Medical or Palliative Medicine Consultant/Senior Doctors or multi-professional colleagues).
- Contribute to a service philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and to lead on the development of nursing practice. Monitor any impact on the patient experience.
- Lead and motivate others by giving clear direction and setting achievable objectives (where applicable).
Management/Leadership
- Reporting to the Nurse Consultant Palliative and End of Life Care - responsible for the coordination and delivery of the palliative and end of life education work-plan and contributing to the team action plan.
- Provide leadership and management to the Specialist Nurse/Educator Palliative Care for the education component of their role.
- Together with the Nurse Consultant and Professional Lead and Medical Consultant/Senior Doctor colleagues provide palliative and end of life care clinical leadership to the hospital team and trust wide service.
- Provide clinical expertise and leadership to relevant staff within and outside Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, in order to inform service provision and development.
- Demonstrate awareness of national and local guidelines relating to specialty and influence care developments in accordance with these.
- Identify, contribute to, or lead on aspects in the development and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines, standards and protocols as required and implement change to improve the quality of nursing care.
- In conjunction with senior members of the team develop the skills to provide an initial response to complaints and queries and have a working awareness of the Trusts complaints procedure.
- Contribute to trust peer reviews and any focused CQC style reviews.
- Actively contribute to achieving the clinical governance goals/targets set by the trust and department and comply with reporting schedules for monitoring and reporting on clinical outcomes. Includes auditing of services.
- Assist in the development of evidence-based policies and procedures relating to the speciality.
- Assist in the development of quality initiatives such as audit, evidence-based practice and risk management within a culture of continuous quality improvements.
- Practice in accordance with current policies and procedures of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
- Implement the Nursing Strategy by setting clear achievable objectives into any staffs annual performance and development reviews and evaluate performance (where applicable).
- Be proactive in the prevention and management of complaints (formal and those via Patient Advice and Liaison Service) and when they occur investigate and respond in a timely manner. Use any learning to share widely with the multidisciplinary team and to improve care delivery.
- Responsible for the management of staff performance and attendance in line with trust policies (if applicable).
- Promote effective communication with staff members across organisational boundaries and provide support to those dealing with patients who are either newly diagnosed or in late stages of their illness.
- Promote the health and well-being of MDT, patients and their carers. Making every contact count.
- Comply and promote compliance with Trust policies and guidelines e.g. Health and Safety, Clinical Risk and Infection Control.
- Take appropriate action to address unexpected changes and situations, informing the Matron/HoN or manager if unable to resolve.
- Responsible for any pay and non-pay budgets to ensure good housekeeping and economic use of resources.
- Work closely with partners i.e. Eugens, resolving any relevant issues and escalate when issues cannot be resolved.
- Utilise user feedback to inform teams and to facilitate service development.
- Contribute to operational policies to ensure the appropriate use of the hospital palliative and end of life care team and its resources within the Trust.
- Attend relevant department and management meetings. Work closely with ward teams to ensure high quality evidence-based care delivery; good communication and dissemination of information.
- Network with other specialty teams forums, groups and Trusts, to share good practice and bring back new ideas to improve the local service.
- Attend local, regional and national networks/meetings and working parties as required ensuring learning contributes to the evidence base.
- Present at seminars/conferences/meetings to raise profile of team and department. Submit articles for publication in peer review or other appropriate journals.
Education
- Responsible for the coordination and delivery of the palliative and end of life education work-plan.
- Develop and deliver agreed development opportunities into the team and organisation palliative and end of life care education work-stream.
- Participate in education forums locally, representing the Hospital Palliative and End of Life Care Team
- Ensure there is a fair and equitable approach to pre- and post-registration practitioner education that is aligned to service delivery and succession planning.
- Responsible for ensuring staff who the post holder lines manage undertake essential training (if applicable).
- Succession plan with the Nurse Consultant and Professional Lead in the development of service and replacement of CNS posts and use Talent Management skills to identify key staff for further development.
- Contribute to the multidisciplinary education and training provision for health care professionals involved in relevant specialty area across organisational boundaries by developing and coordinating education and training programmes and evaluating their effectiveness. Mentor and coach students, support staff and other registrants.
- Liaise proactively with the Trusts learning and development teams, practice educators, higher education and other providers to ensure relevant education is carried out proportionally and with effect.
- Liaise and work with partners across the ICS and relevant bodies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Clinical/Professional
- Participate and contribute to the achievement of the Palliative and End of Life Care Action Plan.
- Demonstrate politeness, courtesy, and sensitivity in providing compassionate care for patients, visitors/relatives, and colleagues.
- Contribute towards sharing good practice across the multidisciplinary team.
- Work cohesively with all members of the multidisciplinary team and promote effective liaison with the team in ensuring that the very best services to patients are provided at all times.
- Work closely with multi-professional colleagues including Medical Examiners, Bereavement Team, Discharge Planning Team, Chaplaincy, Family Liaison Officers, Pharmacy Team to provide safe, experience and quality of palliative and end of life care.
- Communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team, participate in motivating and supporting team members and maintain confidentiality with patients and carers.
- Give written and verbal advice/teaching to patients and carers.
- Demonstrate excellent advanced communication skills with patients and carers ensuring that information is appropriate, timely, delivered sensitively and based on individual needs.
- Provide patients and staff with specialist advice to manage universal and/or complex symptoms.
- Analyse complex patient and family situations establishing a therapeutic relationship to assist the individual to adjust to their illness and care.
- As a Non-Medical (Independent) Prescriber (v300), prescribe medicine in line with trust policies and guidelines within professional scope of practice.
- Carry out Verification of Expected/Unexpected Death in line with trust polices and guidelines.
- Carry out uDNACPR/ReSPECT conversations and documentation in line with trust policies and guidelines and in line with the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act (2005).
- Provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients with a life limiting illness, their families and carers.
- Continuously develop, improve, and promote the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost effective care utilising the support and guidance of senior colleagues.
- Continuously develop and share expertise within the multidisciplinary team.
- Act as a resource in the care of patients needs, ensuring an optimum level of service to patients and their families/carers.
- Work closely with community and relevant network, other hospital and community staff to ensure an effective seamless service.
- Provide effective communication systems of support for patients.
- Build up a skill set to embed patient and public involvement within the sphere of specialist nursing practice.
- Ensure that all patients and families are aware of all treatment options, including clinical trials.
- Work as patient advocate, to help negotiate the patient journey and ensure optimum care is provided to each patient.
- Develop links with other organisations providing support and information.
- Adhere to infection control guidelines and procedures.
- Act as a positive role model for nurses in the hospital through the demonstration of excellent communication and clinical skills.
- Share experience, knowledge and expertise and role modelling to multi-professional staff.
- Through supervision and support develop the skills to analyse and respond to complex clinical situations utilising specialist knowledge to assess a range of options to formulate solutions and recommendations.
- As necessary, discuss and triage up issues of concern or for discussion to senior members of the team (e.g., Nurse Consultant, Professional Lead, Medical or Palliative Medicine Consultant/Senior Doctors or multi-professional colleagues).
- Contribute to a service philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and to lead on the development of nursing practice. Monitor any impact on the patient experience.
- Lead and motivate others by giving clear direction and setting achievable objectives (where applicable).
Management/Leadership
- Reporting to the Nurse Consultant Palliative and End of Life Care - responsible for the coordination and delivery of the palliative and end of life education work-plan and contributing to the team action plan.
- Provide leadership and management to the Specialist Nurse/Educator Palliative Care for the education component of their role.
- Together with the Nurse Consultant and Professional Lead and Medical Consultant/Senior Doctor colleagues provide palliative and end of life care clinical leadership to the hospital team and trust wide service.
- Provide clinical expertise and leadership to relevant staff within and outside Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, in order to inform service provision and development.
- Demonstrate awareness of national and local guidelines relating to specialty and influence care developments in accordance with these.
- Identify, contribute to, or lead on aspects in the development and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines, standards and protocols as required and implement change to improve the quality of nursing care.
- In conjunction with senior members of the team develop the skills to provide an initial response to complaints and queries and have a working awareness of the Trusts complaints procedure.
- Contribute to trust peer reviews and any focused CQC style reviews.
- Actively contribute to achieving the clinical governance goals/targets set by the trust and department and comply with reporting schedules for monitoring and reporting on clinical outcomes. Includes auditing of services.
- Assist in the development of evidence-based policies and procedures relating to the speciality.
- Assist in the development of quality initiatives such as audit, evidence-based practice and risk management within a culture of continuous quality improvements.
- Practice in accordance with current policies and procedures of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
- Implement the Nursing Strategy by setting clear achievable objectives into any staffs annual performance and development reviews and evaluate performance (where applicable).
- Be proactive in the prevention and management of complaints (formal and those via Patient Advice and Liaison Service) and when they occur investigate and respond in a timely manner. Use any learning to share widely with the multidisciplinary team and to improve care delivery.
- Responsible for the management of staff performance and attendance in line with trust policies (if applicable).
- Promote effective communication with staff members across organisational boundaries and provide support to those dealing with patients who are either newly diagnosed or in late stages of their illness.
- Promote the health and well-being of MDT, patients and their carers. Making every contact count.
- Comply and promote compliance with Trust policies and guidelines e.g. Health and Safety, Clinical Risk and Infection Control.
- Take appropriate action to address unexpected changes and situations, informing the Matron/HoN or manager if unable to resolve.
- Responsible for any pay and non-pay budgets to ensure good housekeeping and economic use of resources.
- Work closely with partners i.e. Eugens, resolving any relevant issues and escalate when issues cannot be resolved.
- Utilise user feedback to inform teams and to facilitate service development.
- Contribute to operational policies to ensure the appropriate use of the hospital palliative and end of life care team and its resources within the Trust.
- Attend relevant department and management meetings. Work closely with ward teams to ensure high quality evidence-based care delivery; good communication and dissemination of information.
- Network with other specialty teams forums, groups and Trusts, to share good practice and bring back new ideas to improve the local service.
- Attend local, regional and national networks/meetings and working parties as required ensuring learning contributes to the evidence base.
- Present at seminars/conferences/meetings to raise profile of team and department. Submit articles for publication in peer review or other appropriate journals.
Education
- Responsible for the coordination and delivery of the palliative and end of life education work-plan.
- Develop and deliver agreed development opportunities into the team and organisation palliative and end of life care education work-stream.
- Participate in education forums locally, representing the Hospital Palliative and End of Life Care Team
- Ensure there is a fair and equitable approach to pre- and post-registration practitioner education that is aligned to service delivery and succession planning.
- Responsible for ensuring staff who the post holder lines manage undertake essential training (if applicable).
- Succession plan with the Nurse Consultant and Professional Lead in the development of service and replacement of CNS posts and use Talent Management skills to identify key staff for further development.
- Contribute to the multidisciplinary education and training provision for health care professionals involved in relevant specialty area across organisational boundaries by developing and coordinating education and training programmes and evaluating their effectiveness. Mentor and coach students, support staff and other registrants.
- Liaise proactively with the Trusts learning and development teams, practice educators, higher education and other providers to ensure relevant education is carried out proportionally and with effect.
- Liaise and work with partners across the ICS and relevant bodies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Registered Nurse with NMC.
- Other post registration qualifications relevant to specialist palliative and end of life care.
- Advanced symptom control or palliative care qualification or courses.
- Advanced communication skills training or similar e.g., counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Leadership development programme or similar and/or evidence of leadership skills in current/past role.
- Teaching qualification and/or experience with an accredited NMC/academic course or similar.
- Physical assessment qualification.
- Non-Medical Independent Prescriber v300.
- uDNACPR/ReSPECT discussions competent or willingness to undertake training.
- Verification of Death competent and/or willingness to undertake training.
- Clinical supervision where applicable monthly attendance.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- 5 years post registration experience including minimum of 2 years working in a specialist palliative/end of life care setting.
- Experience of design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of clinical informal and formal teaching.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Experience of designing, delivering, coordinating, evaluating, and reporting of pre- and post-registration multi professional education.
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources.
- Experience of carrying our research and/or audit.
- Experience of effective management and supervision of staff and taking charge of ward /unit.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Local, regional, and national agendas relating to Palliative and End of Life Care e.g., Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care, Five Priorities for Care in Dying, Specialist Level Palliative Care Service Specification, Integrated Care Board strategy.
- Knowledge of the pathology of disease processes in life limiting illnesses.
- Knowledge and understanding of the management of complex symptom control.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Mental Capacity Act.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written.
- Advanced person-centred assessment skills.
- Underpinning knowledge of palliative/end of life care tools which improve patient care e.g., outcome measures, prognostication indicators, symptom assessment tools.
- Understanding of the clinical governance pathway.
- Principles of clinical supervision and reflective practice.
- Principles of research and audit.
- Effective mentoring and coaching skills.
- Excellent Organisational skills.
- IT literate.
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective budgetary management.
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective staff / HR management.
- Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
Working Relationships
Essential
- Self-awareness with the ability to identify personal coping strategies
- Recognition of own limitations.
- Able to secure the co-operation and collaboration with patients, families, and colleagues at all levels.
- Facilitative and non-judgemental.
- Flexible and demonstrates the ability to adjust and adapt to changing needs of the service.
- Communicate and seek to understand with empathy highly sensitive and complex information ensuring that information is understood by you and by patients and those that matter to them that we support.
- Ensure patients, those that matter to them, and the MDT have access to specialist information and provide care that that meets individual patients needs at all stages of the care pathway. This includes the provision of telephone support/ advice.
- Frequent exposure to highly distressing events. Working and supporting staff and patients and those that matter to them within a highly emotive context.
- Communicating, collaborating, and cooperating with other specialist areas, promoting, and maintaining good working relationships within own clinical area, across and beyond the organisation, giving accurate, empathetic information as required.
- An active member of the clinical nursing team contributing to Trust wide nursing/multi-professional groups and meetings.
- Develop expertise in dealing with interpersonal conflict and be responsible for the resolution of any adverse situation/incidents. Comply and promote compliance to Trust policies e.g. Harassment and Bullying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Registered Nurse with NMC.
- Other post registration qualifications relevant to specialist palliative and end of life care.
- Advanced symptom control or palliative care qualification or courses.
- Advanced communication skills training or similar e.g., counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Leadership development programme or similar and/or evidence of leadership skills in current/past role.
- Teaching qualification and/or experience with an accredited NMC/academic course or similar.
- Physical assessment qualification.
- Non-Medical Independent Prescriber v300.
- uDNACPR/ReSPECT discussions competent or willingness to undertake training.
- Verification of Death competent and/or willingness to undertake training.
- Clinical supervision where applicable monthly attendance.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- 5 years post registration experience including minimum of 2 years working in a specialist palliative/end of life care setting.
- Experience of design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of clinical informal and formal teaching.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Experience of designing, delivering, coordinating, evaluating, and reporting of pre- and post-registration multi professional education.
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources.
- Experience of carrying our research and/or audit.
- Experience of effective management and supervision of staff and taking charge of ward /unit.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Local, regional, and national agendas relating to Palliative and End of Life Care e.g., Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care, Five Priorities for Care in Dying, Specialist Level Palliative Care Service Specification, Integrated Care Board strategy.
- Knowledge of the pathology of disease processes in life limiting illnesses.
- Knowledge and understanding of the management of complex symptom control.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Mental Capacity Act.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written.
- Advanced person-centred assessment skills.
- Underpinning knowledge of palliative/end of life care tools which improve patient care e.g., outcome measures, prognostication indicators, symptom assessment tools.
- Understanding of the clinical governance pathway.
- Principles of clinical supervision and reflective practice.
- Principles of research and audit.
- Effective mentoring and coaching skills.
- Excellent Organisational skills.
- IT literate.
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective budgetary management.
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective staff / HR management.
- Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
Working Relationships
Essential
- Self-awareness with the ability to identify personal coping strategies
- Recognition of own limitations.
- Able to secure the co-operation and collaboration with patients, families, and colleagues at all levels.
- Facilitative and non-judgemental.
- Flexible and demonstrates the ability to adjust and adapt to changing needs of the service.
- Communicate and seek to understand with empathy highly sensitive and complex information ensuring that information is understood by you and by patients and those that matter to them that we support.
- Ensure patients, those that matter to them, and the MDT have access to specialist information and provide care that that meets individual patients needs at all stages of the care pathway. This includes the provision of telephone support/ advice.
- Frequent exposure to highly distressing events. Working and supporting staff and patients and those that matter to them within a highly emotive context.
- Communicating, collaborating, and cooperating with other specialist areas, promoting, and maintaining good working relationships within own clinical area, across and beyond the organisation, giving accurate, empathetic information as required.
- An active member of the clinical nursing team contributing to Trust wide nursing/multi-professional groups and meetings.
- Develop expertise in dealing with interpersonal conflict and be responsible for the resolution of any adverse situation/incidents. Comply and promote compliance to Trust policies e.g. Harassment and Bullying.
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).
