Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 321-SW1-6025022-B7-A
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sobell House and Katharine House
- Town
- Headington, Oxford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Specialist Nurse - Community Palliative Care Team (CPCT)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
The Palliative Care service is proud to be delivering specialist palliative care and advice to the population of Oxfordshire and South Northants., supported by Sobell House Hospice and Katharine House Hospice charities
The Community Palliative Care Team provide a 7-day service and extended hours working will be required,
We are looking for candidates who display excellent communication skills and strong leadership qualities and who are able to work as autonomous practitioners
Specialist Palliative Care experience and an understanding of community services is essential.
History taking and assessment skills are essential and undertaking non-medical prescribing will be a requirement in role if not already achieved
Main duties of the job
The community palliative care team is a dynamic multi-disciplinary team who provide specialist palliative care services to Oxfordshire and South Northants. This includes home visiting, outpatient clinics and a telephone advice line. A full driving license is essential, as is the ability to work anywhere within Oxfordshire and South Northants.
The Community Palliative Care Team provides end of life, symptom management and communication skills training and teaching to all levels of staff. A strong aspiration for learning and teaching is therefore essential.
As a specialist nurse within the team, the post holder will be expected to demonstrate patient focused expert clinical assessment and judgement. The post holder will also be expected to show autonomous and multi-disciplinary team working, including supporting other members of the team with development.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Senior Specialist Nurses will be able to;
- Use their expert knowledge and clinical judgement to decide whether to refer patients for investigations and discuss potential diagnoses with members of the wider MDT.
- Decide on and carry out treatment, which may include advice on the prescribing and de-prescribing of medicines, or referring patients to an appropriate specialist.
- Where appropriately qualified and registered with the NMC, prescribe for the initiation and titration of medication for symptom relief.
- Assess individuals, families and populations holistically using a range of different methods, using physical assessment and advanced history taking skills and other specialist health needs assessments.
- Ensure the provision of continuity of care.
- Assess and evaluate, with patients and /or carers, the effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and make changes as needed.
- Work autonomously within a wider health care team and as a lone practitioner.
- Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
Clinical Practice:
Senior Specialist Nurses will:
- Work at an advanced level of practice within the specialist area of practice, autonomously as well as within a multi-disciplinary team and using self-directed skills.
- Work clinically to optimise health and wellbeing, demonstrate autonomous decision making related to comprehensive history taking and physical assessment of patients.
- Work at an advanced level drawing on a diverse range of specialist knowledge in complex decision making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions, which may include advising the wider MDT on the prescribing of medication.
- Plan, prioritise and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with others, delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use, providing direct support to patients and clients.
- Act as key worker where this model exists.
- Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events.
- Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice.
- Appropriately define boundaries in practice.
- Promote a high standard of advanced specialist nursing by initiating and coordinating the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of the holistic needs of patients/families through evidence-based practice following agreed policies, protocols and guidelines.
- Practice a high standard of communication including highly sensitive and complex information to develop and sustain partnership working with individuals, groups, communities and agencies. Utilise evidence-based information through a variety of communication media.
- Maintain adequate patient documentation to NMC requirements for all patients seen and advice given in any practice setting and contribute to clinical activity/data collection as required.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Graduate with 1st level registration
- • Post registration qualification or equivalent experience
- • Experience teaching and assessing in clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- • Masters level education in Nursing
- Teaching qualification
- Advanced history taking module
- • Non medical prescribing
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable expertise in specialist palliative care nursing
- • Ability to discuss and demonstrate evidence based practice
- • management role
- • Knowledge and experience of change management
- • Understanding of clinical governance and audit
- • Evidence of ability to work across organisational boundaries
- • Understanding of national strategy and implications for service
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in introducing and managing nurse-led practice
- • Experience of research methods and procedure
- • Leadership training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to motivate self and others
- • Ability to achieve effective outcomes from challenging situations
- • Good presentation skills
- • computer literacy and experience with EPR
- • Reflective practice
- • Advanced communication skills
- • advanced history taking skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Highly professional attitude, Professional role model
- • confident with conflict management
- • Car owner with full UK driving licence
- • Patient centred philosophy
- • Committed to professional development of self and colleagues
- • Time management skills
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
- Mary Walding
- Job title
- Lead Specialist Palliative Care Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07341 796713
- Additional information
Paula Johnson
Deputy Lead Specialist Nurse
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