Advanced nurse practitioner in specialist palliative care

Advanced nurse practitioner in specialist palliative care

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and enthusiastic nurse to work within the Specialist Palliative Care team, 7-day service. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping and delivering an innovative service model that aims to provide compassionate, high-quality care to patients with life limiting illnesses and their families.You will need to have good clinical knowledge around end of life care, complex symptom control and advanced communication skills.

As a band 7 ANP you will be required to support and lead the day to day service and help manage more junior staff.

Main duties of the job

As a band 7 advanced nurse practitioner you will deliver autonomous advanced level clinical practice to patients with complex specialist palliative and end of life care needs.

Your role will encompass elements of clinical practice, education, research, leadership and service development whilst maintaining a strong focus on patient centred holistic care.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job description Job responsibilities

Deliver high quality, autonomous care to patients within Specialist Palliative Care using advanced clinical assessment and decision making skills.

Support and advise complex symptom management for palliative care and end of life patients.

Support and mentor junior staff contributing to their development and overall capability of the team.

Develop and deliver teaching sessions to team members and wider teams.

Actively participate in service improvement initiatives, research, and audit activities to enhance clinical practice and patient outcomes.

Ensure safe and effective clinical practice through evidence based care adhering to our professional code of conduct.

Enhance patient experience by delivering compassionate, and holistic personalised care.

Please refer to the job description and person specification.

Person Specification Essential

• NMC Registration
• Non-medical prescribing qualification or ability to complete within 18 months of appointment
• A degree healthcare related or equivalent palliative care course (i.e Princess Alice-European Certificate in essential Palliative Care)
• Evidence of professional updating within the last 12 months
• Experience of implementing change
• Experience within palliative care
• Clear understanding of the clinical nurse specialist role
• Effective leadership
• Service development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and record keeping
• Positive and enthusiastic role model
• Courteous and polite
• Flexible approach to weekend working and some lone working
• Complex Reasoning
• Can act on own initiative
• Ability to communicate with senior staff within the profession, and other professions, patients/carers
• Ability to communicate empathetically with Patients, Relatives and or Carers when discussing/explaining clinical conditions and potentially distressing and sensitive information such as breaking bad news

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation
• Use of databases
• Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
• Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as excel, Word, PAS, e-rostering etc
• Management experience
• Presentation skills to large and small groups within and external to the trust.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Address

New Cross Hospital

Wolverhampton

WV10 0QP

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