NHS
Specialist Palliative Care Support Sister
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Job Description
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- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
- Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
- Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
- Demonstrable knowledge in the area of Palliative/End of life care
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- Specialist problem solving and assessment skills
- Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Good teaching, assessment and presentation skills
- Ability to work autonomously or as a member of a team, as well as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Leadership skills
- NMC Registered Nurse (Adult) Registration
- Hold a record of continuous professional development
- First level degree / Diploma
- Recognised teaching certificate
- Evidence of Palliative/End of Life education or similar
- Evidence of master's level learning or prepared to work towards
- Advanced Communication Skills training
- Counselling qualification
- Non-medical prescribing qualification or willing to work towards
- Relevant post-registration experience, at band 5 or above, in cancer, palliative/end of life care or chronic disease management
- Current teaching experience
- Evidence of implementation of evidence-based practice
- Experience of audit
- Demonstrable knowledge in the area of Palliative/End of life care
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- Specialist problem solving and assessment skills
- Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Good teaching, assessment and presentation skills
- Ability to work autonomously or as a member of a team, as well as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Leadership skills
- NMC Registered Nurse (Adult) Registration
- Hold a record of continuous professional development
- First level degree / Diploma
- Recognised teaching certificate
- Evidence of Palliative/End of Life education or similar
- Evidence of master's level learning or prepared to work towards
- Advanced Communication Skills training
- Counselling qualification
- Non-medical prescribing qualification or willing to work towards
- Relevant post-registration experience, at band 5 or above, in cancer, palliative/end of life care or chronic disease management
- Current teaching experience
- Evidence of implementation of evidence-based practice
- Experience of audit
Job summary
Secondment opprotunity until January 2026 -37.5 hours per week
The post holder will provide specialist support to patients with cancer and other life limiting illnesses. The post holder will be an integral part of the team working within the Trust. They will act as the first point of contact for patients and all members of the multi professional team who have need to access the Specialist Palliative Care service. They will undertake a range of duties to ensure the effective delivery of care, including delivering specialist advice and on-going support to their client group.
As part of the role a professional development plan will be developed to support the post-holders progression using a recognised competency framework which will enable the post holder to function within all the dimensions of the role. This will enable development in areas such as leadership, education and the ability to contribute to the strategic direction of palliative care within the Trust. The post holder will be mentored and supported by the Band 7 specialist nurses and will carry a supervised patient caseload.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work to maintain established links between the acute sector and the primary care teams in order to ensure a smooth transition of patient care from the acute sector into the community and vice versa. This will include liaising with services within the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and with other key partners.
Although the post is primarily within the Acute setting the post holder will be expected to rotate throughout the service, both acute and community, as need requires. The post holder would also be expected to contribute to the development of a 7-day service and as such will be required to work weekends and bank holidays on a rotational basis.
Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Date posted
25 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum (pro rata)
Contract
Secondment
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
328-FCS-7035495
Job locations
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
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Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Job responsibilities
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Knowledge
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Qualifications
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Experience
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Qualifications
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Additional informationDisclosure 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.