Lead Nurse (Specialist Palliative Care / End of Life Care)

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37.5 Hours per week

This role will be part of the Growing the Community and Friarage collaborative team working in close collaboration with the Head of Nursing, Head of Professions, Clinical Director and Service Manager.

The post holder will be responsible for providing leadership and management to clinical teams within the trust wide specialist palliative care service. The role involves providing assurance of safety, quality and patient outcomes.

Within his/her area of responsibility the specialist palliative care clinical service lead will ensure that a culture of cost consciousness exists and expenditure is in line with budget and associated agreed efficiency targets. Original thinking, providing senior oversight, clinical excellence, leadership, innovation and development within the defined area of community and acute services creating an impact in the local community services as well as wider.

The post holder will manage the 3 arms of the specialist palliative care service, and also lead end of life care for the trust. Providing excellent clinical leadership to wards and departments, working with patients and staff, evaluating existing services and providing innovative and novel models of care.

The role will provide support, expert professional advice, information, coaching, supervision, education and leadership to other staff within their area as well as within the wider multidisciplinary teams. They will create, develop and foster links locally, nationally, and will work closely with the Head of Nursing, Head of Professions, Clinical Director, Service Manager and local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Future ICS’s and other relevant groups to interpret, lead and implement policies.

Getting it right first time, the post holder will provide and support the delivery of effective care and compassion to all patients and carers within their remit and will role model these at all times to others abiding by the NHS values and constitution and ensuring standards are maintained.

The post holder will play an active role in facilitating others in the contribution to the organisations Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (NMAHP) strategy and/or by mentorship of colleagues. They will demonstrate leadership, mentoring and project management skills.

The post holder will provide operational management, service development and people management for the trust wide specialist palliative care service and will work across collaboratives to provide a streamlined service with delegated responsibility from the service manager for day to day operational remit.

Skills

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:

• 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
  
  

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kelly Kirtley Job title: Head of Nursing Email address: k.kirtley@nhs.net Telephone number: 01642 944479