Band 7 Clinical Practitioner-Palliative Care
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
The Palliative Care Clinical Practitioner (PCCP) will support delivery of palliative and end of life care, acting as the generalist ‘expert’ for the locality and working collaboratively across all community services to lead and influence continuous improvement in palliative and end of life care. The post holder will support teams deliver the ‘home first’ approach, working in partnership with discharge teams/hubs across acute and community services, EICTs and specialist teams.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Practitioner in Palliative Care will act as the generalist ‘expert’ for an identified locality, working collaboratively across community services and supporting teams to deliver the ‘home first’ approach
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
With a focus on clinical leadership and quality improvement, the post holder will:
- Support community teams to deliver evidence based, pro-active individualised care; acting as a role model and enabling staff to develop confidence and competence in all aspects of generalist palliative and end of life care
- Identify training needs within community teams and facilitate local learning
- Lead on the implementation and ongoing review of local quality improvement initiatives
- Work in collaboration with our system partners e.g. Hospices and acute Trusts to support development, implementation and ongoing review of system wide discharge pathways relating to palliative and end of life care
The successful candidate will be a confident leader, who can influence by demonstrating excellent clinical, communication and leadership skills. They will need to work autonomously and build strong relationships across a wide range of services and teams.
Independent Non-Medical Prescribing is an essential requirement of this role and applicants must have completed this course (V300)
The role will involve direct clinical care but the post holder will not hold a clinical case load. Applicants must have experience of delivering palliative and end of life care in community settings
If you are looking for a new challenge and would like to know more we would highly recommend getting in touch by contacting Lisa Kennedy 07593355308