Job summary
The Community Palliative Care Nurse facilitates high quality palliative care to patients and their families. They are able to work independently, and as part of the wider health care team.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in Palliative care. You will work closely with your team to support and facilitate end of life care at home. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in facilitating self-care for patients with long term conditions, health promotion and innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery and staff wellbeing.
Experience in the field of adult palliative and community services is desirable
We are looking for someone who is dynamic and motivated and has the confidence to support, coach and develop individuals to deliver consistently high quality services. You will also be required to manage your own caseload. Excellent communication and time management skills, and sound clinical knowledge, is essential. A flexible approach is required to accommodate the changing needs of the service along with the drive to influence service development.
We offer excellent development opportunities and training that can be directed towards your needs/goals.
You must have a driving license and have access to a vehicle in order to carry out your duties. You will be required to work a shift pattern covering 7 days a week. The posts are full time.
Main duties of the job
You will also have the opportunity to be involved in Urgent Response and Virtual Wards, which is a focus of our teams.
Are you looking to progress your leadership skills and be at the forefront of change? We are seeking a Community Nursing Sister/Qualified District Nurse to work within our integrated Primary Care Hub, which covers Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard. You will work in our palliative care team, within our Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard Primary Home Care Team. The successful candidates will work within the Community Nursing Team however; their focus will be to provide all care to our palliative patients. This is a friendly, dedicated and supportive team where professional guidance is readily available. We are an Outstanding Trust where the focus is on the delivery of quality outcomes and improving the patient experience.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further information
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further information
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Evidence of further study in palliative/end of life care equivalent to masters level or willingness to work towards
- Mentorship Qualification or willingness to work towards
Experience
Essential
- Experience in caring for patients with palliative and end of life care needs
- Experience of complex assessment of health and social needs.
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Demonstrable experience in supporting and educating teams including teaching pre &post registration students
- Ability to communicate highly sensitive and complex information with patients, their relatives and carers; and with colleagues at all levels
- Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and the wider multi-disciplinary team, including internal and external agencies
Desirable
- Community Nursing Experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills in order to persuade, influence and negotiate in order to overcome barriers
- Excellent written communication skills, to include record keeping, report writing, data collection, and evaluations
- Ability to assess , review and evaluate patient situations
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to manage multiple caseloads, prioritising care and monitoring quality accordingly
- Ability to collect and interpret data in relation to patient activity and nursing care
- Ability to manage frequent exposure to highly sensitive and emotional issues such as end of life care plans, deterioration of conditions and bereavement, with upset and distressed children and relatives.
- Ability to undertake cancer care nursing interventions utilizing a range of clinical skills: oTreatment of symptoms through pharmacological/non-pharmacological strategies.. oUse of assessment tools that aid the diagnosis of symptoms.
- Ability to undertake a broad range of nursing skills eg: syringe drivers, basic wound care
Desirable
- Knowledge of national and local agenda for community nursing and end of life care
- Knowledge of NHS legislation, underpinning palliative and cancer care, long term conditions and professional practice.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Evidence of further study in palliative/end of life care equivalent to masters level or willingness to work towards
- Mentorship Qualification or willingness to work towards
Experience
Essential
- Experience in caring for patients with palliative and end of life care needs
- Experience of complex assessment of health and social needs.
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Demonstrable experience in supporting and educating teams including teaching pre &post registration students
- Ability to communicate highly sensitive and complex information with patients, their relatives and carers; and with colleagues at all levels
- Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and the wider multi-disciplinary team, including internal and external agencies
Desirable
- Community Nursing Experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills in order to persuade, influence and negotiate in order to overcome barriers
- Excellent written communication skills, to include record keeping, report writing, data collection, and evaluations
- Ability to assess , review and evaluate patient situations
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to manage multiple caseloads, prioritising care and monitoring quality accordingly
- Ability to collect and interpret data in relation to patient activity and nursing care
- Ability to manage frequent exposure to highly sensitive and emotional issues such as end of life care plans, deterioration of conditions and bereavement, with upset and distressed children and relatives.
- Ability to undertake cancer care nursing interventions utilizing a range of clinical skills: oTreatment of symptoms through pharmacological/non-pharmacological strategies.. oUse of assessment tools that aid the diagnosis of symptoms.
- Ability to undertake a broad range of nursing skills eg: syringe drivers, basic wound care
Desirable
- Knowledge of national and local agenda for community nursing and end of life care
- Knowledge of NHS legislation, underpinning palliative and cancer care, long term conditions and professional practice.
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).
