The Royal Berkshire
Nurse Consultant and Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care
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Band 8c Nurse Consultant and Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care
To lead, develop, contribute to and influence strategies within Trust, regionally and nationally to enable partnership development across palliative care services.
To be the Clinical Lead for the palliative care department.
To be responsible for development of a strategy for the professional development of all specialist palliative care nursing staff working within RBFT.
To work autonomously in the assessment and development of clinical management plans across the inpatient and primary care settings and communicate recommendations verbally and in writing to consultants, GPs, hospital staff and the primary healthcare teams to ensure seamless delivery of care.
To work closely with consultant colleagues and academic institutions to lead on education, research and practice to continually develop an equitable, standardised, high quality palliative care service.
To develop and lead palliative care research programmes and academic activities.
To contribute to and where appropriate, lead new initiatives that are developments and innovations between the Trust, and relevant external agencies, locally, nationally and internationally.
In conjunction with the Matron and Lead Nurse for Palliative Care jointly manage the CNS team to ensure advanced clinical skills are developed.
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To be the Senior Responsible Clinician for End of Life Care (CQC lead).
Clinical - Expert Practice
To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, RBFT Trust policies and NMC Codes of Conduct.
To independently receive and make referrals and lead the management of the caseload for palliative care across health care settings (50% of the post is clinical case work).
To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence based knowledge in the management of patients with highly complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise expert skills and knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.
Education, Training And Development
To lead on formulating plans to meet the multi-disciplinary team training and education needs of staff, at an individual, team and organisation level.
To initiate new programmes of education and training to facilitate changes in practice.
To provide learning opportunities for nurses and other health care professionals via mentorship and supervision. This includes providing inter-professional support for staff of all disciplines.
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To contribute to the development of the undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes locally and nationally in order to facilitate the advancement of structured, evidence based career progression in palliative care.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Alafiya Sachak
- Job title: Director of AHPs and Nursing
- Email address: alafiya.sachak@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07810695546
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