Nurse Consultant for Adult Palliative Care

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Consultant for Adult Palliative Care. This role will be part of the Growing the Community and Friarage collaborative team working in close collaboration with the Head of Nursing, Lead Nurse for SPC and EOLC, Clinical Director and Service Manager. Are you a clinical expert who puts the clinical and holistic needs of our patients first to ensure safe, high quality and effective care. Are you a passionate advanced practitioner with a specialist interest in Adult Palliative Care.

You will provide strong and effective clinical leadership to the specialist palliative care nursing team across the community and acute services. You will act as an expert practitioner providing advice and consultancy for the management of patients with complex specialist palliative care needs. You will work with patients & staff, evaluating existing services and providing innovative and novel models of care. You will act as an exemplary role model for expert clinical nursing practice, demonstrating high professional standards, values and attitudes with a patient centred approach.

Within South Tees we have an ambitious strategy to improve palliative and end of life care for the patients we serve. You will be supported in your role by senior nursing & medical staff who are committed to delivering a high-quality service alongside supporting the development of your nursing career.

Main duties of the job

This role will be at an advanced clinical level in direct delivery of high quality palliative care making critical clinical decisions based on expert knowledge and clinical assessment skills. Working across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out by Health Education England (2017).

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within the nursing/AHP SPC teams in developing the service to improve the patient experience, supporting Palliative Medicine Consultants with day-to-day clinical activity.

The postholder will provide expert clinical care to patients with specialist palliative care needs via direct assessment and also by providing expert knowledge and assistance to clinical teams across the trust. To provide the highest standard of expert holistic care for patients through utilisation of advanced clinical skills and advice in the assessment and management of patients, working autonomously and with the multi-disciplinary team to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

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