Team Leader - Palliative & End of Life Care

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Trust as the Macmillan Palliative and End of Life Care Team Leader on the Frimley Health Site. This post encompasses a combination of clinical, managerial and leadership responsibilities. This is a permanent post co-ordinating and delivering the vision of the 7 Day Hospital Palliative Care service.
The successful applicant will work as part of a well-established Palliative Care and EoLC multi-disciplinary team who provide specialist advice and support to patients, their relatives and members of the health care teams within the hospital and community.
Applications are invited from a Nursing & Midwifery professional background who have worked at a senior level in palliative care. You should also have a Degree, a recognised palliative care qualification, advanced physical assessment skills, be a non medical prescriber with excellent communication skills.
The post holder will be proactive in leading service redesign in palliative and end of life care within the hospital in order to make services responsive to changing needs. You will work closely with the Trust Lead for EOLC & and the Palliative Care MDT., Provide leadership and support for the Palliative and End of life Care team to the Frimley Palliative care team.
Act in a consultancy role as an advanced clinical practitioner in palliative care, offering specialist advice, guidance and supervision to clinical staff, patients and carers
The post holder will act as an expert in palliative and end of care and advise on care for patients with advanced malignant and non malignant disease from time of diagnosis and throughout the trajectory of their illness
Lead developments in practice consistent with the patient care priorities set out nationally and locally. Develop new roles and redesign services in line with best practice and evidence based care., The post holder will lead and manage the palliative and end of life care team on a daily basis, ensuring that the team provides an excellent service to the Trust through evidence based practice, education, policy and guideline development.
Lead clinical care by providing expert assessment, planning, evaluation and support skills in aspects of palliative and end of life care.
The post holder should have advanced physical assessment skills and be a non medical prescriber as well as working towards a Masters degree/Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Maintain a high profile in clinical practice, promoting clinical excellence, initiating learning opportunities and promoting an effective learning environment
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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