NICU Bereavement / Palliative Care Specialist Nurse

Barts Health Nhs Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is looking to appoint a Bereavement and Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist to cover maternity leave for a year. The role involves supporting families with complex end-of-life care needs and providing expert knowledge on palliative care and bereavement. Responsibilities include serving as a point of contact for care teams, facilitating family support, providing staff training, and ensuring high standards of care delivery.

Qualifications

• Advanced communication skills and decision-making skills are essential.
• Nursing skills required for bereavement and palliative care.

Responsibilities

• Be the point of contact for MDT and palliative care teams.
• Facilitate support for families dealing with end of life care.
• Provide teaching sessions for neonatal staff.
• Develop guidance for staff on neonatal palliative care.
• Maintain data quality for bereavement and complex care.

Job description

Overview

We are looking to appoint a Secondment to our Bereavement and Palliative Care CNS to cover maternity leave for a year. As the Bereavement and Palliative Care lead, the post holder will be responsible to support families with complex end of life care needs, to offer up to date expert knowledge on palliative care pathways and bereavement care demonstrating advanced communication with good decision making skills and nursing skills.

Responsibilities

• Be the point of contact for members of the MDT including internal and external palliative care teams, ensuring the baby and family are being cared for in the most appropriate environment.
• Facilitate the provisions of support to babies and their family with complex end of life care ensuring decisions are reached with all relevant and necessary information while supporting families to reach these decisions.
• Provide formal and informal teaching sessions to all neonatal staff to facilitate change in clinical practice to ensure these babies and their families receive excellent care that is evidence based.
• Develop and maintain guidance for neonatal staff in all aspects of neonatal palliative and end of life care within the Trust.
• Develop robust systems to ensure data quality pertaining to bereavement, palliative and complex care is auditable.
• It is expected that this role will be 70% working as a Bereavement/Palliative nurse but will be expected to work 30% on the clinical floor.
• You will also be expected to liaise with all education teams to enable a general information knowledge base and information sharing within the NICU and possibly PICU areas.

About the employer

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.