Clinical Lead for Palliative Care

4 weeks ago

Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospice Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Clinical Head of Community Specialist Nursing to join our team at East Lancashire Hospice. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for the clinical leadership and management of our hospice clinical nurse specialist team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Drive the development and delivery of our service, ensuring high-quality evidence-based specialist palliative care is delivered with care, compassion, and dignity to patients and those important to them.
  • Provide clinical leadership, caseload management, and coordination to ensure the delivery of exceptional care.
  • Work as a positive, proactive role model and autonomous practitioner, demonstrating excellent standards of specialist assessment, care planning, and evaluation of interventions.
  • Collaborate effectively with primary and community care colleagues and other partners to promote awareness of and access to hospice services.
  • Develop, manage, and maintain the service to respond to patients and their families experiencing crisis situations within the community.
  • Lead on non-medical prescribing within the team, including the development, implementation, and review of NMP policy and procedures.
  • Take a lead on specific projects and work collaboratively with others to make a significant contribution to the delivery of hospice strategic objectives, governance agenda, and local initiatives to improve specialist and supportive palliative care across our community.
Requirements
  • Current interventions and strategies for palliative care.
  • Current palliative care research and developments and implications for patients.
  • Governance priorities and the standards and expectations of regulatory bodies.
  • Practical use of computer systems and Microsoft packages.
Qualifications
  • RN (Adult) with valid NMC registration.
  • Level 7 degree or study in a relevant clinical field or nearing completion.
  • Recognised post-registration qualification(s) in a field relevant to the role.
  • V300 Non-Medical Prescribing or willingness to undertake.
  • Advanced assessment/clinical examination skills or willingness to undertake.
  • Advanced communication skills.
  • Leadership/Management qualification.
  • Teaching/Assessing qualification.
  • Evidence of professional development, including validated clinical development or courses.
  • GCSE/NVQ Level 2 in English/Maths.
  • ECDL or equivalent certificates/experience using Microsoft/office packages.
Experience
  • Substantial post-registration experience.
  • Recent post-registration interest and experience in the delivery of specialist palliative care for a range of life-limiting illnesses.
  • Experience working with a wide range of people in various settings to improve patient outcomes.
  • Advance care planning and supporting patients, relatives, and others through life-changing situations, impending grief, and bereavement.
  • Caseload management, including planning, supervising, and organizing work.
  • Development and mentorship of clinical staff/volunteers.
  • Complex case management.
Skills
  • Ability to take full responsibility for the management of a service and caseload.
  • High level of clinical skills relevant to the specialty, with an understanding of reversible causes, integrating theory to practice.
  • Understanding of the clinical rationale for the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of symptoms utilized within palliative care.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with report writing and presentation skills.
  • Ability to effectively time manage and plan, prioritize, and coordinate workload.
  • Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish effective working relationships with the multidisciplinary team and wider stakeholders.
  • Leadership skills/qualities.
  • Change management experience/skill.
  • Critical thinking, with the ability to think objectively and laterally, recognizing internal and external influences on service provision and development.
  • Proficient with the keyboard and Microsoft office applications, with the ability to record/deal with accurate facts, figures, and information to support clinical and managerial activity.
  • Well-developed approach to customer care, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and deal with conflict situations.
  • Good budget management and housekeeping skills.
  • Car driver with full UK license and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
Personal Attributes
  • Awareness of the Hospice charitable status and influence of service delivery and professionalism on charitable donations.
  • Able to work as part of a rota over 7 days, contribute to the on-call rota, and be flexible to meet changing service needs.
  • Self-motivated, confident, and decisive, with the ability to work alone and manage own time without direct supervision.
  • Able to recognize own and others' limitations and proactively seek guidance and/or support where necessary.
  • Team player with commitment to multi-professional working and ability to network/establish effective working relationships.
  • Enthusiastic and motivated to engage with/drive change and innovative practice.
  • High level of personal integrity and professionalism, displaying behavior and an attitude to work that is consistent with organizational values.
  • Expert and effective role model and motivator, able to take and provide constructive feedback.
  • Good sense of humor and a genuine and non-judgmental approach to others.

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