09 Oct
Royal Brompton hospital
London
Main area
Specialist Supportive and Palliative Care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent: would consider secondment or Band 6 with appropriate experience
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday. Participation in telephone on call out of hours rota.)
Job ref
196-NM12158
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Brompton Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 p.a Inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/10/2024 23:59
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts.
We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Would you like to empower and support patients, and those important to them, who are facing life threatening,
advanced and progressive illnesses to maximise their individual quality of life and death? We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated person to join our supportive and palliative care team.
The successful post holder will lead and support the delivery of excellent personalised care to patients and families across our inpatient hospital team. You will provide specialist advice on pain and other physical symptoms as well as psychological, emotional, social and spiritual concerns.
If you are looking for an amazing opportunity for career progression and to develop or expand your skills in quality improvement, research or audit, then please come and join our team.
We look forward to welcoming you to our team!
Closing Date: 15th October 2024
Interview Date: 30th October 2024
Main duties of the job
The role requires the post holder to provide specialist palliative care to patients with complex problems,
act as a specialist resource to generalist colleagues and deliver education and training to develop their palliative care practice.
The role will require an ability to work both independently and as part of the multidisciplinary team and communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals.
We support our staff wellbeing through clinical supervision in addition to Trust wide initiatives and provide training and mentoring as well as support for continued professional development.
Working for our organisation
You can look forward to working in a caring and supportive team of clinical nurse specialists who place the individualised care of their patients at the heart of everything they do.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC)
inspection in 2018 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work alongside the Macmillan Lead Nurse, the Consultant in Palliative Medicine, and other Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) colleagues to ensure allocation of the patient caseload is effectively managed and patient needs are met by using a team approach to care assessment, planning and implementation.
To provide expert nursing advice, education and support to these groups of patients and their families,
To be responsible for managing a highly complex patient caseload and ensuring care needs are assessed, planned and carried out appropriately, actively promoting support for patients and relatives.
To provide expert advice regarding symptom control and the assessment and management of psychological, social, emotional and spiritual issues.
To work with medical and surgical teams in the assessment, planning and implementation of care for those patients with long-term and life limiting illness where there may be unmet and on-going support and care issues.
To discuss, when appropriate, end-of-life care including preferred place of care and death enabling patient choice to be met.
To provide a link for patients after discharge, allowing them to have access to the wider multidisciplinary team as needed and liaising with community services as required.
To sustain a high quality service liaising with the multidisciplinary teams within the Trust, at the referring hospitals and within primary care to ensure coordinated care is provided.
To attend weekly Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings as required and be an active participant and patient advocate in these forums.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name David Smith Job title Lead Nurse Supportive and Palliative Care Email address ********@rbht.nhs.uk Telephone number 07816 252645
▶️ Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Supportive and Palliative Care RBH
🖊️ Royal Brompton hospital
📍 London