Job summary
The Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Team at Croydon University Hospital are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated palliative care nurse to join our well established and supportive team. The Team works with in-patients with life-limiting illness across all areas of the acute hospital working collaboratively alongside multi-disciplinary teams. We deliver face to face clinical care 7 days a week, offer education, training and support across disciplines, and lead palliative and end of life care strategy in the Trust. The successful candidate will have established and demonstrable clinical and communication skills, complete holistic assessments and develop management plans, and practice autonomously within a supportive palliative care team. We actively support opportunities for academic and practice development.
Interview - TBC
Main duties of the job
To offer patients with cancer and other progressive life-limiting illness, and their families, the skills of a clinical nurse specialist in symptom control, social, emotional and spiritual care within the acute setting.
To work alongside ward teams to improve the end of life experience of patients who are affected by advanced progressive illness, and their families.
To enhance specialist palliative care provision across Croydon University hospital.
To meet the clinical, educational, consulting, management, and research and audit responsibilities of a clinical nurse specialist.
About us
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust wasformed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide servicesfora population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We're also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people's homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.Across the NHS everyone isworkinghard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challengeyourself and be part of an NHS Trust that's making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you're lookingfor.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document (Job Description) which contains more information about the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document (Job Description) which contains more information about the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC registered nurse
- Relevant post-registration qualification
- Relevant masters level degree or qualification or willingness to work towards (examples of relevance: palliative care, oncology, district nursing)
- Advanced communications skills training
Desirable
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Teaching and mentoring qualification (examples: ENB 998; Teaching, Assessing and Mentorship module; PGCert.)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration nursing experience
- Significant experience in delivering evidence based palliative care in a specialist environment
- Demonstrable experience and competence in symptom management
- Demonstrable experience and competence in end of life care
- Demonstrable experience and competence in autonomous specialist palliative care nursing practice
- Demonstrable experience and competence in clinical leadership
- Demonstrable experience and competence in collaborative working with multi-professional colleagues and groups
- Demonstrable experience and competence in breaking significant news and complex communication with patients and families
- Demonstrable experience and competence of advance care planning with palliative patients and families
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking audit
- Demonstrable experience of teaching multi-professionals in varied clinical settings
Desirable
- Experience of implementing and managing change
- Experience of undertaking research
- Non-medical prescriber
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge base in the principles and philosophy of palliative care
- Demonstrable knowledge base in symptom management, holistic assessment and planning care with palliative patients and their families
Skills
Essential
- Advanced communication and negotiation skills
- Track record of effective multidisciplinary working across disciplines (medical, social work, allied health professionals, spiritual and psychological support services) and services (hospital, community, hospice, voluntary sectors).
- Computer literate. Proficiency in using electronic patient medical records; electronic palliative care coordinating systems (EPaCCs) example CMC, UCP; safe and appropriate electronic sharing of sensitive personal information between services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC registered nurse
- Relevant post-registration qualification
- Relevant masters level degree or qualification or willingness to work towards (examples of relevance: palliative care, oncology, district nursing)
- Advanced communications skills training
Desirable
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Teaching and mentoring qualification (examples: ENB 998; Teaching, Assessing and Mentorship module; PGCert.)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration nursing experience
- Significant experience in delivering evidence based palliative care in a specialist environment
- Demonstrable experience and competence in symptom management
- Demonstrable experience and competence in end of life care
- Demonstrable experience and competence in autonomous specialist palliative care nursing practice
- Demonstrable experience and competence in clinical leadership
- Demonstrable experience and competence in collaborative working with multi-professional colleagues and groups
- Demonstrable experience and competence in breaking significant news and complex communication with patients and families
- Demonstrable experience and competence of advance care planning with palliative patients and families
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking audit
- Demonstrable experience of teaching multi-professionals in varied clinical settings
Desirable
- Experience of implementing and managing change
- Experience of undertaking research
- Non-medical prescriber
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge base in the principles and philosophy of palliative care
- Demonstrable knowledge base in symptom management, holistic assessment and planning care with palliative patients and their families
Skills
Essential
- Advanced communication and negotiation skills
- Track record of effective multidisciplinary working across disciplines (medical, social work, allied health professionals, spiritual and psychological support services) and services (hospital, community, hospice, voluntary sectors).
- Computer literate. Proficiency in using electronic patient medical records; electronic palliative care coordinating systems (EPaCCs) example CMC, UCP; safe and appropriate electronic sharing of sensitive personal information between services.
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).
