Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 153-SP03322
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- the Hospital Palliative Care Team - RBH
- Town
- BOURNEMOUTH
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Hospital Palliative and End of Life Care Lead
Band 8a
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
The post holder will provide vision and leadership in the field of palliative and end of life care across the Trust, with the opportunity to shape an evolving service at a time of change and growth. They will work as a key member of the Senior Leadership team in collaboration with nursing, medical and other healthcare professionals to develop and ensure exceptional palliative and end of life care across the Trust.
The Trust is going through substantial transformational change and the post holder will lead, supported by the Lead Nurse for Palliative Care, the transformation of Hospital Palliative Care. The post holder will have clinical and managerial responsibility for Hospital Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life Care services across the University Hospitals Dorset NHSFT and will retain some clinical practice in order to maintain their clinical expertise. They will provide expert professional advice to other professionals, multidisciplinary groups, patients and carers. They will ensure evidence-based practice is maintained, ensure high quality training and education is delivered, and develop policies and guidelines to support the provision of high-quality care.
They will have a significant role in clinical governance processes and the UHD End of Life Steering Group. They will report directly to the Lead Nurse for Specialist Palliative Care and be a core member of the Palliative Care Senior Team.
Main duties of the job
- Provide leadership, management duties and support for the Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team and End of Life Care Team.
- Lead developments in practice consistent with the Palliative and End of Life patient care priorities set out nationally and locally.
- Develop new roles and redesign services in line with best practice and evidence-based care.
- Play a key role in ensuring the principles of clinical governance are implemented both at a local level and across the Trust for Palliative and End of Life Care.
- Measure and monitor the quality of Palliative and End of Life Care being delivered throughout the Trust, including patient safety, patient experience, user engagement and clinical outcomes.
- Be responsible for staff supervision and support, including delivery of appraisals and personal development plans feeding into the annual Learning Needs Analysis (LNA).
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There are on average just over 700 deaths per quarter within University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD) hospitals. Providing palliative and end of life care in the acute hospital setting is not just a specialist role and is the job of everyone working in the Trust. Based on national drivers “One Chance to Get it Right: Improving people’s experience of care in the last few days and hours of life” (Leadership Alliance for the care of dying people, 2014)1 and “Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: A national framework for local action 2015-2020”2, the UHD “End of Life Care Strategy 2021- 2026”3 aims to improve the care given in the last months, weeks, days and hours of life across all domains, and support the bereaved.
The UHD End of Life Care strategy is underpinned by the core vision of providing outstanding end of life care to all those who come into contact with the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Trust and the knowledge that there is only one chance to get it right.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Specialist palliative care experience ideally in multiple sites (community, hospice, hospital)
- • Experience in leading and managing staff including AHP and support staff
- • Proven experience in managing and implementing change
- • Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a clinical/nursing service
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a clinical/nursing service
- • 1st Level Registered nurse/Midwife /AHP on relevant part of the Register
- • Relevant post registration specialist training at masters level equivalent.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams
- • Effective and strategic influencing collaborative working
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Pennington
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Palliative Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
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