Job description

Job responsibilities

You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:

• Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of clinical practice in palliative care.
• Support the Community Services Business, Operations and Performance Manager to develop the overnight service, collaborating with external organisations to improve patient care.
• Act as a role model providing clinical leadership for colleagues.
• Advise and support on patients with complex needs and their families at home, maintaining an approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care, in accordance with the organisation mission and values.
• Ensure all written and verbal communication is accurate and legible in accordance with NMC and the hospice policies and guidelines.
• Be responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with community professionals, support services and members of other hospices and palliative care teams, providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support as requested.
• Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to practice participating in approved research projects.
• Identify risk involved in patient care and lone working, escalating concerns where appropriate and implementing learning outcomes from recorded incidents.
• Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own home to provide palliative and end of life care.
• To be responsible for the co-ordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace Care staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
• Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
• As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the Lone Worker policy and procedure requirements.
• To undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers/families physical, emotional spiritual, practical, welfare right and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement need, using a variety of tools to support the process.
• To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans.
• At identified shifts be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required.
• To signpost and inform patients and their families/carers of the range of services available to them, external resources and day to day information relating to the service.

Job responsibilities

You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:

• Demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of clinical practice in palliative care.
• Support the Community Services Business, Operations and Performance Manager to develop the overnight service, collaborating with external organisations to improve patient care.
• Act as a role model providing clinical leadership for colleagues.
• Advise and support on patients with complex needs and their families at home, maintaining an approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care, in accordance with the organisation mission and values.
• Ensure all written and verbal communication is accurate and legible in accordance with NMC and the hospice policies and guidelines.
• Be responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with community professionals, support services and members of other hospices and palliative care teams, providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support as requested.
• Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to practice participating in approved research projects.
• Identify risk involved in patient care and lone working, escalating concerns where appropriate and implementing learning outcomes from recorded incidents.
• Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Responding to SOS calls visiting patients in their own home to provide palliative and end of life care.
• To be responsible for the co-ordination and smooth running of a shift and visits ensuring it is well organised.
• As a member of the wider Rennie Grove Peace Care staff sign up and demonstrate delivery of the organisational agreed mission, vision and values.
• Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
• As a lone worker be responsible for your own and others safety by adhering to the Lone Worker policy and procedure requirements.
• To undertake holistic needs assessment that explores individual patients and their carers/families physical, emotional spiritual, practical, welfare right and if appropriate the families pre and post bereavement need, using a variety of tools to support the process.
• To be able to develop, update and monitor the individualised care plans.
• At identified shifts be responsible for dealing with any service enquiries, calls and referrals as required.
• To signpost and inform patients and their families/carers of the range of services available to them, external resources and day to day information relating to the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First level registered Nurse or Registered Paramedic

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Degree Level or modules in Palliative Care or another relevant subject
• Evidence of continuous personal and academic development
• Proven palliative care experience
• Advanced communication skills training
• Proven experience of managing people / strong clinical leadership.
• Proven experience of effective team working
• IT literate including a good knowledge of Excel, Word, a clinical IT system.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Advanced assessment skills and specialist symptom control knowledge to plan, implement

Desirable

• Experience of teaching within a clinical setting
• Experience of successfully implementing and supporting change
• Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.

Qualifications

Essential

• First level registered Nurse or Registered Paramedic

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Degree Level or modules in Palliative Care or another relevant subject
• Evidence of continuous personal and academic development
• Proven palliative care experience
• Advanced communication skills training
• Proven experience of managing people / strong clinical leadership.
• Proven experience of effective team working
• IT literate including a good knowledge of Excel, Word, a clinical IT system.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Advanced assessment skills and specialist symptom control knowledge to plan, implement

Desirable

• Experience of teaching within a clinical setting
• Experience of successfully implementing and supporting change
• Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care

Address

Peace Hospice

Watford

WD17 3PH

Employer's website

https://renniegrovepeace.org/ (Opens in a new tab)