Team Leader - Palliative & End of Life Care | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Trust as the Macmillan Palliative and End of Life Care Team Leader in Wexham Park Hospital. 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 in Nursing, 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 Wexham 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.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

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.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

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