Registered Nurse

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a dedicated individual for a newly created role focused on enhancing palliative and end-of-life care. This position requires a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with significant experience in palliative care. Responsibilities include developing care pathways, supporting clinical teams, providing staff training, and ensuring compliance with care standards. The role promises a high-impact contribution to patient care and involves working autonomously and within multidisciplinary teams.

Benefits

Fantastic staff benefits

Professional development opportunities

State-of-the-art facilities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or AHP with significant palliative care experience.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Experience in project management and quality improvement.
• Ability to work independently in multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to professional development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement care pathways for palliative care.
• Provide clinical support and education to teams.
• Participate in service reviews and strategy development.
• Oversee clinical audit activities.
• Liaise with external agencies for palliative services.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Project management

Policy development

Quality improvement

Ability to work autonomously

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional

Job description

Overview

This newly created, high‑impact role is a two‑year fixed‑term post aimed at enhancing palliative and end‑of‑life care across a broad geographical area. The position centres on developing and implementing care pathways, supporting clinical teams, and delivering staff training—including the ICB palliative care training resource.

Responsibilities

• Pathways of care and active support to clinical teams in all aspects of palliative and end‑of‑life care.
• Training of staff at RJAH and support for the ICB palliative care training resource.
• Policy development.
• Strategic development and overview.
• Development and delivery of quality improvement and service transformation.
• Ensure ongoing clinical support for the nursing and medical teams who care for patients within the Trust entering the final stages of their lives, offering high‑level expertise and knowledge in palliative and end‑of‑life care (PEoLC).
• Support and educate staff without direct supervision, working autonomously as the lead nursing/AHP expert in specialist palliative and end‑of‑life care.
• Liaise with outside agencies across a large referral geography, including hospices, local service providers and other Trusts.
• Operate across the whole Trust within different Delivery Units, working with existing specialist PEoLC teams (Sheldon Ward, Montgomery Unit, Spinal Team and MCSI teams) and pre‑operative optimisation teams.
• Participate in high‑level reviews of the service and future strategy development for the PEoLC pathway.
• Oversee clinical audit activity—local, regional and national compliance and audit against NICE guidance.
• Help the Trust achieve and maintain standards required by regulators such as CQC and work closely with commissioners (ICB) to ensure this.
• May independently prescribe where qualified.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with significant palliative care experience.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Proven track record in project management, policy development, audit and quality improvement.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to professional development and service enhancement.
• Must be able to evidence satisfaction of the NMC Objective Structured Clinical Examination Test of Competence or be pending registration.

Application Details

Please submit an application form that includes a complete record of your employment history. Explain any gaps in your employment/education history and the reasons for these gaps. The Trust reserves the right to withdraw an employment offer or terminate employment if it learns that an application contained false, misleading or inaccurate information.

Applications will be processed through Trac, the MLCSU’s preferred recruitment system. All subsequent communication will be generated from apps.trac.jobs and will be available in your candidate account. If offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT embraces diversity, equality and inclusion and aims to be diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability and ethnicity. We are committed to ensuring disabled workers aren’t disadvantaged when applying for and doing their jobs and offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised post. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) processes recruitment on behalf of Robert Jones Agnes Hunt.

Benefits

In the National Staff Survey, 74% of our staff would recommend the Trust as a place to work and 92% would recommend the hospital to a friend or relative for treatment.

We offer a range of fantastic staff benefits, outstanding professional development opportunities and state‑of‑the‑art facilities, including the recently‑opened £6 million Headley Court Veterans’ Orthopaedic Centre (the first unit of its kind in the UK).

The Trust has strong links with universities such as Staffordshire, Keele, Glyndwr, Chester and Birmingham. The hospital is located in North Shropshire, near the border with North and Mid Wales, providing excellent transport links and an attractive outdoor lifestyle for families.

Location

Our site is outside Oswestry in Oswestry, just off the A5, with the nearest train station in Gobowen approximately two miles away. It is situated on the Chester to Birmingham line and offers outstanding opportunities for those who enjoy an outdoor lifestyle or are looking to raise a family.