Deputy Lead Nurse for Palliative Care

£60504

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford

Full time
Permanent
Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 13 Dec | Get your application in now before you're too late!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Full Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving Palliative Care department within the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH). This role works alongside the Lead Nurse for Palliative Care to manage the nursing teams across all four hospital sites and the community service that covers most of Oxfordshire and part of South Northamptonshire. The roles are integral to the multi-disciplinary service development and the role allows the post-holder a significant role in this across the department, Trust and the ICB. The role will encompass a clinical component, anticipated to be a 40% clinical and 60% managerial/administrative split. Maintaining high quality patient care across all services is the priority for the role, underpinned by excellent communication skills, and a commitment to education and developing others. Cross site working is required and the post holder will be required to undertake some community visits on occasion as well as work alongside the team in the hospitals., The post holder will:

Provide expert clinical care, exercising professional autonomy within their field of expertise
Work alongside the Lead Specialist Nurse to co-lead a team of professionals/practitioners to provide a high quality, effective and efficient service
Work collaboratively with the Lead Specialist Nurse to develop the service, promoting excellent patient care through staff specialist skills development
Work collaboratively with referring teams to the service, promoting the specialist service whilst supporting their development and learning.
Participate in a collaborative research programme
Raise the profile of the service at local, national and international level
To act as a visible ambassador for the Oxford Model for Exemplary Professional Practice Providing clinical expertise, evidence - based leadership, research and innovation.
To co-lead and consult on the development and evaluation of the service in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team
Participate in the provision of specialist education and training programmes
To deputise for the Lead Specialist Nurse when absent., Provide expert care for patients/clients and their care givers using the post holder's expertise.
Have specialist knowledge of client group across a range of clinical issues, underpinned by the theory and practice acquired through study at master's Level.
Act as a role model of expert nursing practice in specific client area.
Establish, Implement and monitor trust guidelines, policies and protocols with regards to specific client group.
Make and accept referrals to and from other disciplines.
Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary reviews and assessment
Where there is clinical need and acting within legal, professional and organisational frameworks, to undertake to prescribe medicines for patients in the post holder's care
Work unsupervised to advise, recommend and generate care pathways for client group, ensuring on-going evaluation and review
Be professionally accountable and manage a specialist caseload as part of a team
Exercise professional autonomy and make critical judgments in their field of expertise.
Monitor and record clinical outcomes through evaluation, audit and review.
Ensure evidence-based practice in all clinical work and promote the development of an evidence base in area of specialist expertise.
Undertake procedural skills determined and agreed by area of practice
Contributes to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/ guidelines/protocols relevant to specialist area and wider health care arena
Contributes to the clinical governance process, including leading adverse incident reporting/investigation and management of complaints, where appropriate and relevant to their area of practice/expertise
Act as a role model, to promote consistently high standards of professional practice
Ensure that nursing care is based on sound evidence and rationale within the departments, linking with other members of the wider team where appropriate
Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries proactively developing and sustaining new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes and healthcare delivery systems
Develop strategies to regularly review patient and user perceptions of specialist area to facilitate the engagement of patients and carers in service development
To collaborate with colleagues who lead service and business planning with regard to cost pressures and prioritising
Be an authorised co-signatory for relevant hospital and Charitable Fund accounts
Line-manage and provide clinical supervision to designated teams as appropriate to role, To act as a visible ambassador for the Oxford Model for Exemplary Professional Practice Providing clinical expertise, evidence-based leadership, research and innovation.
Role modelling life-long learning and relishing opportunities to share best practice.
Ensure care and compassion is the culture for both patients and staff within your area.
Promote staff engagement, development and shared governance, ensuring wellbeing and resilience is fostered in all disciplines.
Demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice and clinical excellence and lead staff in the implementation of such practice.
Support and facilitate practice development, audit and project/research activity within the clinical speciality, contributing to the continuing improvement in service quality.
Raise the profile of the Service at local, national and international level by contributing to professional and service debate, and through professional activity, publications and presentation at conferences.
Uses their professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and captures the learning from these experiences to improve patient care and service delivery.
Provides expert professional input to appropriate health improvement programmes to meet the local agenda in line with the national framework
To take a lead in promoting and managing change to improve practice, co-ordinating existing resources and developing links, locally and nationally.
To act as a role model, to promote consistently high standards of professional practice
To share expert knowledge, to advise practitioners locally, regionally and nationally, based on evidence-based practice.
Participate in regular clinical supervision
Provide support to less experienced nurses
Identifies own development needs in line with service requirements within personal development plan and proactively develops and improves own competence.
Uses advanced communication skills and contributes to the wider development of those working in their area of practice by publicising and disseminating their work through presentations at conferences and articles in the professional press.
To identify areas where investment should be made to further develop the service and feed this into the business planning cycle locally and nationally.
Contributes to the meaningful development of public involvement in service design and delivery
Leads and consults on the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/guidelines/protocols relevant to the speciality and wider health care arena.
Frequently critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of relevant research and evaluations and applies them to improve practice.
Participate in collaborative research programme development between Higher Education Institutions, the trusts and Comprehensive Local Research Network
Develops a culture of audit and research in practice, in line with national research agendas and priorities, and publish articles in appropriate journals.
Collaborates with Oxford Brookes University and other Educational facilitates working in partnership with the OUH to ensure that students and service needs are adequately supported, and that Advanced Nurse Practitioners/Specialist Nurse Practitioners, Sisters/Charge Nurses and other senior nurses are involved in the audit and development of the learning environment.
Develops strategies to regularly review patient and user perceptions of the speciality to facilitate the engagement of patients and carers in service development

1st level registration
Masters level education
Post registration palliative care qualification
Evidence of continuous professional development
Completion of leadership and management development course(s) or evidence to demonstrate this level of experience
Masters level education in Nursing
Qualification in teaching and assessing in clinical practice, Extensive experience and clinical expertise in Palliative Care
Demonstrates use of evidence-based practice
Experience of managing a specialist nursing team
Experience of leading practice initiatives
Experience in research, audit, education and leadership in a specialist nurse role
Experience in resource management
Research experience, Initiating and sustaining effective interpersonal and professional relationships
Demonstrates an experience of leadership, inspiring and effectively working within a team
Able to function effectively in challenging situations
Able to function effectively in challenging situations
Able to handle conflict whilst respecting others values and opinions
Demonstrates an ability to hold boundaries and manage expectations and own time
Project management skills
Experience in representing service across organisation, Professional role model
Excellent communicator
Patient centred philosophy
Committed to professional development of self and colleagues, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.