Lead Nurse for Specialist Palliative Care - South

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a highly motivated nurse leader to join a leading NHS Trust as the Lead Nurse for Specialist Palliative Care. This role focuses on delivering high-quality care and improving services in community settings across Warwickshire. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership, manage a team, and ensure compliance with care standards. Join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC and contribute to impactful healthcare services.

Qualifications

• Managerial accountability for the specialist palliative care team.
• Provide effective clinical leadership to ensure high care standards.
• Accountable for standards of care and service improvement.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic and operational delivery of palliative care services.
• Promote palliative care values across community and hospital settings.
• Link community and hospital staff for cohesive team integration.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Quality Improvement

Job description

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced nurse leader to join South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust as the Lead Nurse for Specialist Palliative Care, South Community Team. This is a key role, responsible for the strategic and operational delivery of specialist palliative care services with a strong focus on integration, innovation and quality improvement.

• The post holder will be managerially accountable for the specialist palliative care team.
• In conjunction with the ACNO for the Division, provide effective clinical leadership to the specialist palliative care team, enabling the service to deliver to the highest possible care standards in line with evidence based practice.
• To promote the key values of palliative care within community, primary and secondary care settings throughout Warwickshire.
• To build a single cohesive team across the county, linking community and hospital staff and interfacing with the independent and voluntary sectors.
• Act as an excellent role model, providing clear visible leadership reflecting the organisational leadership charter in service development and management.
• To be accountable and responsible for standards of care and to monitor and evaluate service and patient care outcomes using this information to continually improve the service.
• Interpret national policy and ensure compliance to quality and performance standards.
• To provide clear direction and leadership for all staff members with regard to legal, ethical and moral dimensions of nursing and care.
• To be accountable for the achievement of aligned quality performance indicators for the services.
• This role is anticipated to be 20% clinical caseload and 80% managerial duties for Specialist Palliative Care Teams in Community Settings in Warwickshire South.
  
  

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University 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. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

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, inclusive, 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachel Tompkins Job title: General Manager Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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