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.

You will manage 3 arms of specialist palliative care service, these are located in Hambleton and Richmondshire, James Cook University Hospital and also Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland. The post holder will also take on the role of lead nurse for 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, and working closely with the nurse consultant for specialist palliative care and the lead nurse for cancer and palliative care.

Within their area of responsibility the lead nurse for specialist palliative care 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

You 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.

Must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

About us

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Essential

• Management and clinical skills with well-developed leadership, influencing skills and the ability to engage, influence and motivate
• Knowledge and a proven track record of recent operational and clinical nursing/midwifery management and the ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working
• Knowledge and demonstrable capability of service improvements, strategies for infection control and transformational leadership
• To have a working knowledge in relation to the national ambitions for end of life care, end of life strategy and CQC requirements

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Essential

• First level registered nurse/midwife
• Evidence of delivering education
• Independent prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake
• First Degree in in a relevant subject
• Cancer/Palliative care related module
• A Masters level Degree or evidence of Study at Masters level and/or equivalent demonstrable experience.

Desirable

• Leadership qualification

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience, with substantial experience working in cancer and/or specialist palliative care or working within a speciality with a significant element of palliative care, at a senior level'
• Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice
• Evidence of expert practitioner skills in field of cancer and palliative care.
• Evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together.
• Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Low Grange Health Village

Normanby Road

Middlesbrough

TS6 6TD

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