Lead Nurse - Specialist Palliative Care

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Newport; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking an experienced nurse to lead a dynamic specialist palliative care team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in palliative care, strong leadership skills, and a passion for enhancing patient quality of life. This fixed-term position offers opportunities for professional development and teamwork with various healthcare sectors.

Benefits

Flexible working

Paid mandatory training

Occupational health support

Extensive training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse with evidence of CPD.
• Experience in palliative care and leadership.
• Experience of working in complex organisations and service management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialist palliative care nursing team.
• Enhance communication between various care sectors.
• Develop educational programs in palliative care.

Skills

Leadership skills

Advanced communication skills

Ability to influence change

IT literate

Education

First level degree or equivalent

Masters qualification

Teaching qualification

Counselling qualification

Job description

This is an exciting and rare opportunity for an experienced, compassionate nurse to lead a highly motivated and dynamic specialist palliative care nursing team in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB)

The Specialist Palliative Care Directorate in ABUHB is currently undergoing some exciting changes and developments, in partnership with our third sector providers. We are now looking for an experienced nurse to lead a well-established and innovative palliative care nursing team.

We would welcome a lead nurse who is visionary with a passion for palliative and end of life care who cares about making a difference to the quality of life for patients with life limiting illness and keeping patients at the heart of all you do.

Main duties of the job

The key elements of the role are:

• To work in partnership with ABuHB staff, the specialist palliative care voluntary sector providers and national bodies to support the enhancement of the palliative care pathway and service redesign in line with the Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Futures Model
• To improve standards of specialist palliative care by facilitating the development of practice and strengthening leadership to ensure that palliative care patients and carers have a quality experience
• To Lead and develop the CNS team in palliative care in the development and implementation of a consistent and effective specialist service and to improve patient end of life choices
• To be integral to Specialist Palliative care senior management team
• To be accountable for leading and managing educational programmes in palliative care in response to identified nursing and AHP practice and service needs in collaboration with the ABUHB End of Life Care Board education work stream

To enhance communication between primary care, secondary care and the voluntary sector to promote a seamless service and improved patient experience.

This post is fixed term/secondment for 6 months due to secondment cover. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

• Registered General Nurse
• First level degree or equivalent level of experience and knowledge
• Masters qualification or equivalent level of knowledge and experience
• Evidence of CPD - portfolio of professional development activities
• Teaching qualification
• Counselling qualification
• Leadership and management qualification

Experience

• Experience in palliative care
• Experience of working at a senior level in a complex organisation
• Experience of leading/managing a service
• Experience of working between primary and secondary care
• Experience and professional knowledge of financial management and staff management acquired through training and experience
• Experience of successful development and delivery of service improvement and/or successful management of organisational change
• Evidence of advanced communication skills training
• Experience of audit & research
• Project or programme management experience

Values

• Enthusiastic, committed, proactive and innovative
• Politically astute and high levels of intuition
• Appetite for hard work and challenges
• Show resilience, stamina and reliability under sustained pressure, never losing sight of objectives
• High level of personal integrity
• Diplomatic
• Assertive, confident, yet approachable

Other

• Ability to travel within the Health Board in a timely manner

Aptitude and Abilities

• Ability to lead & influence change
• IT literate
• Leadership & motivational skills
• Ability to work autonomously & as part of a team
• Willing to learn & adopt best practice
• Ability to analyse and appropriately present often complex service information to a range of groups
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive
• Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, influence and political acumen
• Demonstrable specialist knowledge in relation to policy and service developments and service strategies
• Able to interpret legislation and national guidance relating to professional practice and the delivery of nursing
• Sound judgement, decision making and organisational skills
• Self-motivated and committed to developing self and others

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.