NICU Bereavement / Palliative Care Specialist Nurse

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Greater London is looking for an NICU Bereavement / Palliative Care Specialist Nurse. This role involves providing support for families with complex end-of-life care needs, ensuring high standards of care through expert knowledge in palliative pathways. The specialist nurse will also offer training to staff and develop guidance to maintain quality care. Candidates should be registered nurses with neonatal experience and strong communication skills, dedicated to improving the care provided to families.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with mentorship and assessment experience in public services.
• Proven managerial experience at band 6 level.
• Neonatal experience in intensive care or local neonatal unit.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate support to families with complex end-of-life care.
• Provide teaching sessions for neonatal staff.
• Develop guidance for neonatal staff on care.

Skills

Ability to prioritize

Excellent communication skills

Good problem solving skills

Good level of skill in computer usage

Understanding of safeguarding issues

Education

Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse/ Adult Nurse

Neonatal course (all modules)

Job description

NICU Bereavement / Palliative Care Specialist Nurse

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. To 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.

Main duties of the job

To 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. 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. To 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.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, palliativeand 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 us

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.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse/ Adult Nurse
• Mentorship and assessment in public services.
• Neonatal course (all modules)
• BLS for parents - Train the trainer
• NLS

Experience

• Proven managerial and professional experience at band 6 level with good experience of discharge planning for complex babies
• Neonatal experience at staff nurse level in intensive care or local neonatal unit
• Proven professional competence
• Awareness of research and audit
• Evidence of continuing education in relevant field of practice
• Counselling skills/courses

Skills

• Ability to prioritize well with good problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Good level of skill in computer usage - able to use NHS data bases, input data and retrieve information
• Awareness of current issues and reforms in the NHS and neonatal services.
• Awareness of the Toolkit for high quality neonatal services
• Excellent understanding of safeguarding issues.
• Proven skills at working at senior nurse level within a level 3 neonatal unit
• Shows desire to implement new ideas and improvements

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.