Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Kilsby; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and CPD

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic nurse to join our palliative care team. You will provide specialist palliative and end-of-life care across Warwickshire, managing a clinical caseload and delivering high quality compassionate care.

In this role you will lead education and training within a multi-disciplinary team, collaborate with locality services, and contribute to the SWFT Business Plan.

Qualifications

• Palliative or end-of-life care experience is essential.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to support patients and families.
• Ability to teach and educate others; committed to compassionate care.

Responsibilities

• Manage a clinical caseload of patients requiring specialist palliative care.
• Provide specialist advice, education and leadership within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Collaborate with locality team to deliver the specialist palliative care element of the SWFT Business Plan.
• Support training and continuous professional development.

Skills

Communication skills

Autonomous working

Teamwork

Teaching ability

Education

Registered Nurse

Job description

To provide a specialist palliative care nursing service across Warwickshire. This includes providing specialist advice, education and training, leadership and change management in pursuit of excellent palliative care.

The post holder will be responsible for actively managing a clinical caseload of patients requiring specialist palliative care.

A key component of this post will be to work collaboratively with others and providing leadership, education, and training in specialist Palliative care to enable the wider workforce to improve their skills. The post holder will work in collaboration with the locality team to deliver the specialist palliative care element of the SWFTs Business plan.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated nurse with a passion for palliative care. Have you undertaken recent study to support your knowledge and skills in this area? Working autonomously and collaboratively within a multi -disciplinary team? Then we are looking for you.

You will demonstrate excellent communication skills in supporting patients and their families and must be committed to providing high quality compassionate care. A commitment to teaching and education is equally important.

Palliative or end of life care experience is essential.

• We offer a supportive and friendly environment and access to training and continuous professional development to enhance this role.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.