Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7051064-A
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- Edmonton
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for 2 x Band 7 CNS to work within our highly skilled, motivated and dynamic team. We aim to make a difference and improve the experience of palliative care patients at various stages of their disease trajectory.
The post will be based within the existing inpatient Palliative Care Team. We offer 7 day face to face support to ensure that people with specialist palliative care needs, will receive the best quality care. The team currently consists of 4 palliative consultants’ equivalent to 2.5 WTE, 1 Band 8a Lead Nurse, 4 WTE Band 7 CNS's 1 WTE band 6 Associate CNS 1 WTE Band 7 palliative care fast track coordinator.
The post holder will act as a specialist resource Trust wide. Using Specialist Palliative skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and support their significant others and carers through effective, efficient evidence based high quality care.
The delivery of education and training to multi-professional groups within the Trust is an integral part of the role.
The post holder will also contribute to the teams’ development, research and governance through the process of audit and bench marking.
We welcome applicants with existing palliative care experience or equivalent.
Main duties of the job
· To effectively assess, plan and provide specialist care and support to people affected by life limiting illnesses, and also to patients who are at the end of their lives.
· To participate as part of a multi-disciplinary, working collaboratively with colleagues, patients, carers, other health and social care professionals, statutory, voluntary and independent organisations to ensure optimum patient management
· To work within statutory legislation and local policies and procedures in relation to discharge planning and palliative care.
· To work autonomously and manage own case load
· To participate in providing a 7 day face to face service
· To act as a resource, educator and advocate for patients, their carers and health care professionals.
· To participate in education initiatives to all members of staff
· To participate in audit/research.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospital here
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1.1 Acts as a resource of clinical excellence in the speciality of palliative care nursing, and ensure that national and local policies are implemented and followed
1.2 Assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic patient care based on sound rationale and evidence-based practice to influence and implement treatment
1.3 Participates in the management and triaging of new referrals and taking part in the daily allocations
1.4 Maintain and be responsible for electronic and written records in line with the organisation
1.5 Offer skilled emotional and psychosocial support and refer on to other members of the multidisciplinary team as appropriate.
1.6 Support the Continuing Care Application process and complex discharges where appropriate.
2.1 Act as a patient advocate
2.2 In collaboration with other services and the multidisciplinary teams deliver a high standard of care for the benefit of patients and the public
3.1 Ensures the Palliative care policies are updated in response to national and local changes to practice
3.2 Works collaboratively with external providers and agencies to align with regional and national initiatives
5.1 Managing the caseload in an effective, efficient and timely manner
5.2 Acts in professional and supportive manner toward junior staff and students
Person specification
Education & Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree in Nursing
- • Registered Nurse (RNA)
Desirable criteria
- • Teaching qualification
- • Post registration course in specialty
- • Masters in related subject
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Palliative care experience in relevant field
- • Knowledge/understanding of confidentiality issues
- • Working in the healthcare sector with relevant oncology /Palliative care or other relevant experience
- • Understanding of the palliative patient, family and carers issues and their role in service development
- • Experience in working across a variety of settings
Desirable criteria
- • Teaching/educating nurses, AHP’s and/or patients
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- • People management skills/abilities
- • Ability to cope with stress/work under pressure
- • Ability to manage own work load
- • Excellent organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- • Up to date knowledge of the speciality of palliative care and its treatments.
- • Ability to implement new practices and initiatives
- • Problem solver
- • Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential criteria
- • Compassionate
- • Advanced Communication Skills
- • Ability to work with multi-professionals /cultural organisations cross cutting organizational boundaries
- • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
Others
Essential criteria
- • Commitment and adherence to the Equality ACT
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
- Jonathan Dowman
- Job title
- Interim Nurse Consultant Palliative & End of Life
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07790967743
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