Specialist Palliative Care Support Sister

NHS; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Specialist Palliative Care Support Sister to provide essential support to patients with cancer and life-limiting illnesses. This role involves working closely with a multi-professional team to ensure effective delivery of care, mentoring, and development opportunities. The position is a secondment until January 2026, requiring 37.5 hours per week, with an expectation to work weekends and bank holidays on a rotational basis.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge in Palliative/End of Life care.
• Specialist problem solving and assessment skills.
• Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist support to patients with cancer and life limiting illnesses.
• Liaise with acute and primary care teams for patient transitions.
• Contribute to the development of a 7-day service.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Teaching

Assessment

Education

NMC Registered Nurse (Adult) Registration

Recognised teaching certificate

Evidence of Palliative/End of Life education or similar

Evidence of master's level learning or prepared to work towards

Job description

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Palliative Care Support Sister

Information:

This job is now closed

Job summary

Secondment opprotunity until January 2026 -37.5 hours per week

The post holder will provide specialist support to patients with cancer and other life limiting illnesses. The post holder will be an integral part of the team working within the Trust. They will act as the first point of contact for patients and all members of the multi professional team who have need to access the Specialist Palliative Care service. They will undertake a range of duties to ensure the effective delivery of care, including delivering specialist advice and on-going support to their client group.

As part of the role a professional development plan will be developed to support the post-holders progression using a recognised competency framework which will enable the post holder to function within all the dimensions of the role. This will enable development in areas such as leadership, education and the ability to contribute to the strategic direction of palliative care within the Trust. The post holder will be mentored and supported by the Band 7 specialist nurses and will carry a supervised patient caseload.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work to maintain established links between the acute sector and the primary care teams in order to ensure a smooth transition of patient care from the acute sector into the community and vice versa. This will include liaising with services within the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and with other key partners.

Although the post is primarily within the Acute setting the post holder will be expected to rotate throughout the service, both acute and community, as need requires. The post holder would also be expected to contribute to the development of a 7-day service and as such will be required to work weekends and bank holidays on a rotational basis.

Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
• Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
• Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Demonstrable knowledge in the area of Palliative/End of life care
• Knowledge of clinical governance
• Specialist problem solving and assessment skills
• Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Good teaching, assessment and presentation skills
• Ability to work autonomously or as a member of a team, as well as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse (Adult) Registration
• Hold a record of continuous professional development
• Recognised teaching certificate
• Evidence of Palliative/End of Life education or similar
• Evidence of master's level learning or prepared to work towards
• Advanced Communication Skills training
• Counselling qualification
• Non-medical prescribing qualification or willing to work towards

Experience

• Relevant post-registration experience, at band 5 or above, in cancer, palliative/end of life care or chronic disease management
• Current teaching experience
• Evidence of implementation of evidence-based practice
• Experience of audit

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.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum (pro rata)