Lead Nurse - Hospice at Home Team

We are looking for a Lead Nurse to join our Hospice at Home team to ensure high quality care to people in their own homes and management, clinical leadership and supervision to the Hospice at Home Team. The Hospice at Home team provide provision of the service 7 days per week 9pm 8am. The role will be working 35 hours per week. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidates to be part of this successful, dynamic and forward thinking team.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of an integrated service overnight that compliments existing community services and work in partnership with existing day services to ensure high quality 24 hr provision of care. The successful candidate will be a proven team player, possess excellent communication skills, be self motivated and be an excellent team player with a minimum 5 years post registration experience. A car and current UK driving license are essential.

About us

Trinity is a great place to work, having an outstanding rating with the Care Quality Commission and Investors in People Gold accreditation. If you are looking to join a thriving, increasingly innovative organisation, which puts passion and care at the heart of its operations, want to make a difference to palliative and end-of-life care and seek to ensure high quality care to patients and their families, then this may well be the post for you!

• 38 days annual leave each year, pro rata (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Various Health and Wellbeing benefits including annual flu and Covid-19 vaccinations, access to complementary therapy and counselling.
• Free car parking on site
• Pension scheme or NHS Pensions can be transferred
• Maternity/Paternity benefits
• Being part of an organisation with an exceptional reputation

Job responsibilities

RESPONSIBLE FOR: Management and ongoing development of the Hospice at Home Team including Senior Staff Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and supporting students on placement.

OVERALL PURPOSE: To ensure high quality care to people in their own homes and management, clinical leadership and supervision to the Hospice at Home Team. To be responsible for managing the Hospice at Home caseload. Manage the resources associated with the team. Develop the service in line with the organisation business plan. Continuously monitor the quality of care provided using appropriate metrics. Contribute to the Multidisciplinary Team approach to patient care. Facilitate staff engagement. Innovate practice and keep abreast of evidence base practice, applying this to our cohort of patients. Manage individual staff performance and learning needs.

JOB PURPOSE: Provide inspirational leadership to support and fulfil the objectives of the service. Innovate practice in line with evidence. During clinical hours to provide support to patients in their own homes who have palliative and end of life care needs, raising clinical standards and promoting a learning environment for other health care providers. To be responsible for planning, assessing, implementing and evaluating care in partnership with the District Nursing Team and out of hours providers.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• To provide palliative care advice and support to patients, their families and carers.
• To plan, assess and implement patient care plans in conjunction with the Primary Health Care Team.
• Monitor patients condition and report significant changes to the Community Palliative Care Team via morning handover, GP and District Nursing Team incorporating high standards of individualised patient care.
• Liaise effectively with other health care professionals in the community and within the Hospice, receiving and sharing information through effective communication.
• Be responsible for managing the process of receiving and responding to referrals to the Trinity Hospice at Home Service.
• Prioritising workload of the Team and managing resource allocation as required.
• Be prepared to cope with incidents or emergency situations as they arise and report them to the Senior Manager on duty.
• To contribute to the District Nurses assessments of patients as well as the development and implementation of programmes of care for patients in their own homes.
• To carry out specific treatments and clinical procedures, basing clinical practice on current research based evidence.
• To administer drugs and assist with their ordering in accordance with NMC standards for the Administration of Medicines.
• Ensure that relevant health and safety procedures are maintained within patient areas, either at their home or within the Hospice.
• To use advanced communication skills to support carers and families of patients receiving services from Trinity Hospice at Home Service.
• To verify when a death has occurred, notifying families and carers as appropriate following the procedures carried out within the community.
• To ensure that patients and carers are identified and appropriately referred to other services.
• Be responsible for co-ordinating flexible care provision to enable patients to remain at home.
• Maintain accurate patient records in line with Hospice guidelines.

PROFESSIONAL/MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be accountable to the Community services manager and/or Head of Community Services for the overall performance of the team.
• Ensure Confidentiality from staff at all times and ensure safe keeping and use of patient data.
• Ensure staff are maintaining all required mandatory training needs and working within policies and procedures for the service.
• Support the development of nursing staff on a daily basis including induction, and completion of clinical competencies.
• Undertake performance review and manage poor performance as appropriate with/supported by the Community Teams Manager.
• Manage sickness, absence and rotas in line with policies.
• Undertake PDRs and 1-1s with staff supporting their development and achievement of objectives.
• Support the recruitment process.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain professional registration in line with NMC requirements for revalidation.
• Be responsible for own learning needs.
• Act in accordance with Trinity Hospices value and behaviours.
• Be a role model to staff in relation to learning and a learning culture.

This job description is not exhaustive and is subject to review in conjunction with the post holder and according to future changes/developments in the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with a professional body
• Recent evidence of continuing professional development
• Advanced communication skills
• Willing to undertake Non-medical prescribing V300
• Teaching/Leadership qualification
• Educated to Degree level

Experience

• Minimum 5 years post registration experience- 2 years at Band 6 level or above.
• Evidence of working with cancer patients and patients with life limiting illness including management of medicines
• Understanding of delivery of specialist palliative care in community.
• Knowledge of palliative care networks
• Experience in team management
• Evidence of involvement in service development
• Community experience
• Specialist palliative care experience
• Experience of mentoring/coaching.
• Completed leadership training

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work within a team and as an autonomous practitioner
• Proactive and self motivated
• Ability to problem solve and deal with situations in a diplomatic and constructive manner
• Work within professional and organisational Standards
• Responsibility for own continuing professional development
• Flexible to ensure rota is covered.

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and influencing skills
• Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise work around competing demands on time.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and flex within working day and across other service areas
• Audit skills
• Use of EMIS

Attitudes and Values

• Commitment to the vision, values and objectives of Trinity Hospice and palliative care services
• Be committed to support the work of the fundraising team, understanding the charity role

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.