Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative and End of Life Care

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Job summary

An established NHS foundation trust is seeking a dedicated Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative and End of Life Care. This role offers the chance to provide high-quality, integrated care for patients with complex needs, working within a supportive and collaborative team environment. With a focus on personalized care, you will have the opportunity to lead initiatives that enhance patient experiences and outcomes. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to clinical excellence and innovation in healthcare, where your contributions will make a significant impact on the lives of patients and their families.

Qualifications

• Experience in palliative care and end-of-life support.
• Advanced decision-making and leadership skills.
• Ability to work autonomously in community settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support personalized care for patients and families.
• Provide specialist advice on pain and psychological concerns.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for effective care.

Skills

Palliative Care

Clinical Assessment

Patient Management

Leadership

Communication Skills

Education

BSc in Health Related Field

Post Registration Qualification in Palliative Care

Working towards Master's Degree

Tools

Clinical Software

Job description

Main area Palliative and End of Life Care Grade Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Condensed working hours across 4 days a week to include weekends and Bank Holidays) Job ref 196-NM12828

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guy's Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 p.a inc HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 13/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/05/2025

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Palliative and End of Life Care

Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

Clinical Nurse Specialist- Palliative and End of Life Care

x1 WTE 12-month Fixed Term opportunity to cover Maternity Leave - 8am-8pm shift pattern.

x1 WTE 12-month Fixed Term opportunity to cover Maternity Leave - 8am-6pm shift pattern.

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist to join ourPalliative and End of Life Careteam.

We provide fully integrated 24/7 clinically effective, efficient and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative and end of life care needs, based on current evidence and best practice across inpatient and community settings. Our dedicated Palliative and End of Life Care team provides rapid response to patients in the dying phase and our overnight service (Pal@Home) support people to remain in their preferred place of care.

We really look forward to welcoming you to our team!

Please [e-mail] to find out more about our team and your chance to join us. You will have the opportunity to work alongside wider specialist teams including Learning Disabilities, Health Inclusion Team, Neighbourhood Nursing, Dementia and Delirium.

Provisional Interview date - Wednesday 21st May 2025

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will lead and support the delivery of excellent personalised care to patients and families across the Boroughs of Lambeth & Southwark, in their own homes and care homes.

You will provide specialist advice on pain and other physical symptoms as well as psychological, emotional, social and spiritual concerns. Our team includes nursing, pharmacy, medical, social work, and psychology colleagues.

Our Band 7 nurses participate in developing our Band 6 nurses within the team with support from our Matrons, Consultant Nurse & Deputy Head of Nursing.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We are a member of the Palliative Care Clinical Academic Group, providing unique access to world leading researchers in the field. You will have the opportunity to develop your teaching skills through delivering training across the wider Trust. We support our staff wellbeing through clinical supervision as well as multiple team and Trust wide initiatives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and personal specification for a detailed description of the roles and responsibilities for this post

Please see attached the Functional Requirement Forms for the individual roles.

Person specification

Qualifications / education

• BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
• Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
• Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience
• To have or be working towards a Master’s degree
• To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course

Previous Experience

• Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within Palliative and end of life care delivering effective patient focused care.
• Experience of working autonomously assessing, diagnosing and treating patients within the community setting
• Proven evidence of advanced organisational/leadership skills and autonomous practice
• Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
• Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
• Teaching and assessing

Skills, knowledge and ability

• Full UK driving licence
• Decisive, able to make decisions quickly and be assertive.
• Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
• Confident and effective at lone working
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues (incl. long term, complex or other conditions encompassing the care of older people).
• Ability to de-escalate situations involving conflict and provide an effective resolution.
• Able to use skills of history taking and physical and holistic assessment to direct patient care
• Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully
• Access to own transportation (car/electric bicycle/moped, etc)
• Presentation Skills

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Palliative Care Senior Nurses Job title Matron Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02071884754 Additional information

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