Job summary
The post holder will be a proactive role model who designs, plans and delivers education and training to enhance the end-of-life care provided by professionals across Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust (CHFT) and Calderdale community settings including GPs and Care homes. The hours will be between Monday and Friday, working flexibly to cover the needs of the service.
They will work alongside the CHFT End-of-Life Care (EOLC) Facilitator in determining the Palliative and EOLC training and education requirements. The post holder will establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships within the Trust, local hospices, CHFT clinical educators and other EOLC education providers and engage and influence all levels of staff regarding end-of-life care. This will be an important aspect of this role, ensuring CHFT plays an active part in addressing challenges related to palliative and end of life care and promote the standards and expectations as outlined in the ambitions for palliative and end of life care: a national framework for local action 2021 -2026.
The post holder will ensure that CHFT staff are supported to receive the appropriate EOLC training specific to their role to enhance knowledge, confidence and skills in end-of-life care.
In addition, the post holder will facilitate quality and service improvement initiatives to support and develop the provision of end-of-life care.
Main duties of the job
The postholder:-
Plan, design, deliver and evaluate staff training and education courses and events that will attract all professionals involved in the delivery of care at the end of life to provide high quality care.
The post-holder will support the development and evaluation of the end-of-life care team to improve standards of end of life patients care and promote a seamless service.
The role requires the ability to work autonomously and independently but within an integrated collaborative team. Follow professional guidance and refer to the End-of-Life Care Facilitator as appropriate.
Promote outstanding care and work in a way that is patient-centered, involves service users, responds positively to feedback, and promotes learning and continuous improvement.
Communicate effectively with colleagues on a timely basis to ensure staff and managers remain informed, engaged and own the work. This will include providing and receiving sometimes highly complex information which may be sensitive or contentious, where persuasive, motivational and negotiating or empathetic and re-assurance skills are required.
About us
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Have clinical expertise in end-of-life care to support the professional development of Registered Nurses, Medical staff, Nursing Associates, Associate Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, AHPs and other members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
Work with CHFTs end of life strategy to improve end of life and bereavement care within the Trust and across the local area.
Competently manage any barriers to communication in order to effectively understand and meet individuals reported needs.
Attend and develop the monthly Marigold bereavement caf.
Organise, participate, and evaluate community engagements and events, including dying matters and grief awareness weeks.
Support EOLC service improvement initiatives across the footprint of CHFT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Have clinical expertise in end-of-life care to support the professional development of Registered Nurses, Medical staff, Nursing Associates, Associate Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, AHPs and other members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
Work with CHFTs end of life strategy to improve end of life and bereavement care within the Trust and across the local area.
Competently manage any barriers to communication in order to effectively understand and meet individuals reported needs.
Attend and develop the monthly Marigold bereavement caf.
Organise, participate, and evaluate community engagements and events, including dying matters and grief awareness weeks.
Support EOLC service improvement initiatives across the footprint of CHFT.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered health professional/Registered Nurse with NMC, HCPC or GMC registration. Specialist knowledge and experience of End-of-Life Care/ Palliative equivalent to post graduate diploma level.
- Teaching qualification or significant demonstrable experience in education/training
- First level degree or equivalent
- Advanced communication skills trained or willingness to complete
Desirable
- Supervisor/Assessors qualification
Knowledge,experience and expertise
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience at Band 5/equivalent or above looking after end of life care patients
- Substantial experience in the facilitating and delivery of education & training
- Experience of working with bereaved relatives
- Good planning and organisational skills and ability to manage diverse educational activities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including listening, facilitating, influencing and communication of ideas, including complex and sensitive issues.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to foster excellent multi-disciplinary working
- Commitment to and understanding of equality and diversity and how these translate into good practice in education, learning and development
- Demonstrable experience of implementing change for service development, including reporting skills. Ability to facilitate change, motivating and influencing staff
- Knowledge of advance care planning
- Computer and database skills, including power point, excel, word, EPR
- Awareness of the key policy drivers in palliative and end of life care
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Ability to exert light physical effort for short periods - moving educational equipment setting up rooms manipulation of equipment, taking training equipment across sites - safe use of educational resources/equipment
- Ability to manage occasional distressing or emotional circumstances
Communication and relationships
Essential
- Excellent leadership skills
- Demonstrate clear and advanced communication skills, written, verbal and non verbal.
- Provide and receive complex information using persuasive, motivational, negotiating and training skills needed
- Receive complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Enthusiastic, innovative and passionate about end-of-life care
- Self-motivated, assertive, approachable, confident and creative
- Experience of undertaking audits and research
- Good knowledge of national, regional and local strategies, guidelines, initiatives and general trends in healthcare that will influence end of life
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively as a member of an MDT and also with external agencies
- Ability to manage the emotional impact of working within end of life care and bereavement support
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to frequently work across both Hospital sites, in the community and at external venues around the region
- Ability to apply effective leadership skills, responsive to a variety of circumstances.
- Ability to work independently on own initiative and deliver objectives within a given time frame
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered health professional/Registered Nurse with NMC, HCPC or GMC registration. Specialist knowledge and experience of End-of-Life Care/ Palliative equivalent to post graduate diploma level.
- Teaching qualification or significant demonstrable experience in education/training
- First level degree or equivalent
- Advanced communication skills trained or willingness to complete
Desirable
- Supervisor/Assessors qualification
Knowledge,experience and expertise
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience at Band 5/equivalent or above looking after end of life care patients
- Substantial experience in the facilitating and delivery of education & training
- Experience of working with bereaved relatives
- Good planning and organisational skills and ability to manage diverse educational activities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including listening, facilitating, influencing and communication of ideas, including complex and sensitive issues.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to foster excellent multi-disciplinary working
- Commitment to and understanding of equality and diversity and how these translate into good practice in education, learning and development
- Demonstrable experience of implementing change for service development, including reporting skills. Ability to facilitate change, motivating and influencing staff
- Knowledge of advance care planning
- Computer and database skills, including power point, excel, word, EPR
- Awareness of the key policy drivers in palliative and end of life care
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Ability to exert light physical effort for short periods - moving educational equipment setting up rooms manipulation of equipment, taking training equipment across sites - safe use of educational resources/equipment
- Ability to manage occasional distressing or emotional circumstances
Communication and relationships
Essential
- Excellent leadership skills
- Demonstrate clear and advanced communication skills, written, verbal and non verbal.
- Provide and receive complex information using persuasive, motivational, negotiating and training skills needed
- Receive complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Enthusiastic, innovative and passionate about end-of-life care
- Self-motivated, assertive, approachable, confident and creative
- Experience of undertaking audits and research
- Good knowledge of national, regional and local strategies, guidelines, initiatives and general trends in healthcare that will influence end of life
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively as a member of an MDT and also with external agencies
- Ability to manage the emotional impact of working within end of life care and bereavement support
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to frequently work across both Hospital sites, in the community and at external venues around the region
- Ability to apply effective leadership skills, responsive to a variety of circumstances.
- Ability to work independently on own initiative and deliver objectives within a given time frame
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
End of Life Care Team, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
Acre Street, Lindley,
Huddersfield
HD3 3EA
Employer's website
https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
