Palliative and End of Life Care Clinical Specialist Nurse/AHP

RJAH Charity; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK healthcare trust is seeking a specialist in palliative and end-of-life care to provide training, support clinical teams, and enhance service quality. The role involves developing policies, overseeing audits, and working autonomously as the lead expert in palliative care. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with various healthcare entities and actively participate in strategic development within the Trust. Candidates are encouraged to visit to assess the working environment and meet the team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver quality improvement for palliative care services.
• Provide clinical support for nursing and medical teams.
• Work autonomously as the lead expert in specialist palliative care.

Job description

Role Overview

Pathways of care and active support to clinical teams in all aspects of palliative and end‑of‑life care. Training of staff at RJAH and support ICB palliative care training resource. Policy development. Strategic development and overview.

Development and delivery of quality improvement and service transformation. A key purpose of the role is to ensure ongoing clinical support for the nursing and medical teams who care for patients within the Trust who are entering the final stages of their lives, offering high level expertise and knowledge in palliative and end‑of‑life care (PEoLC). The post holder will be expected to support and educate staff without direct supervision and will work autonomously as the lead nursing/AHP expert in specialist palliative and end‑of‑life care. They will liaise with outside agencies covering a large potential referral geography given the quaternary status of the hospital, to include hospices, other local service providers and Trusts.

The role will involve work across the whole Trust, within different Delivery Units. The post holder will work as part of the teams (CNS/AHP) already delivering specialist PEoLC (Sheldon Ward, Montgomery Unit, Spinal Team and MCSI teams), and the pre‑operative optimisation teams. The post holder will participate actively in high level reviews of the service and future strategy development for the PEoLC pathway. The post holder will have oversight of clinical audit activity local, regional, national compliance and audit against NICE guidance.

They will help the Trust to achieve and maintain standards required by regulators such as CQC and continue to work closely with the commissioners (ICB) to ensure this. Informal visits to the Trust to view the working environment and meet the team are welcomed.