Matron - Specialist Palliative Care Services

6 days ago


Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is a truly unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced Specialist Palliative care nurse with a proven track record of strong leadership to join a highly motivated, extremely driven, and inspirational Specialist Palliative care team based at Salisbury NHS Foundation trust.


The Salisbury Specialist Palliative Care Service is a well-established, dynamic, and integrated NHS service, incorporating a ten bedded hospice inpatient unit, community team, hospice at home service, hospital support team, day care services, family support and bereavement services.

The service is based at Salisbury Hospice, on the Salisbury District Hospital site.

Being part of Salisbury NHS Foundation trust brings significant benefits for providing flexible and responsive Specialist Palliative Care for patients across all settings with few organisational barriers.

It also provides a supportive and progressive environment for continuous professional development.


This is an amazing opportunity for an enthusiastic, ambitious, and experienced Senior Nurse to lead our Specialist Palliative care service along with the Clinical consultant and Service manager.

Working collaboratively with other specialist services across the integrated care system (ICS), you will be joining a service which aspires to provide care of the highest quality, to all patients and families with Specialist Palliative and end of life care needs.


The Matron for Specialist Palliative Care services will provide senior clinical and professional nursing leadership to a fully integrated NHS service based at the acute hospital site and managed within the Clinical Support and Family Services Division.


As a key member of a triumvirate Team, you will work together with The Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Lead and Service manager to steer Specialist Palliative Care Services and influence continuous improvement within the service and across the wider Integrated Care System (ICS).

The post holder is accountable for coordinating safe, high quality, focused care to improve patient, family, and staff experience.

The post holder will have overall responsibility for the line management of senior nursing staff and resources within Specialist Palliative services, ensuring visible clinical leadership and high professional and clinical standards are maintained


The post holder will be responsible for writing and implementing policies, patient pathways, interpreting and advising on national policy and guidelines and ensuring compliance across clinical teams.


In collaboration with the Specialist Palliative Care team and Divisional Head of Nursing the post holder will develop and implement clinical effectiveness and quality improvement programs for palliative care services across the trust and community.


Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us.

Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.


We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre.

We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding.

You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.

On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

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