Job overview

Specialist Palliative Care Nurse Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT)

BHRUT is seeking a highly motivated Registered General Nurse to join our Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life Care Team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to patients, families and carers living with life-limiting illnesses across both hospital sites.

Applicants must be a Registered General Nurse with significant clinical experience in palliative and end of life care. You will work both autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality, patient-centred care in line with national and local guidelines.

The post holder will manage their own caseload with support, contribute to education and training across clinical areas, and help develop systems to improve the quality of palliative care across the Trust.

We are looking for a compassionate, self-motivated nurse with excellent communication, organisational and IT skills, and the ability to influence and inspire others.

If you are passionate about delivering outstanding palliative care and would like to work within a supportive, forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

Join us and make a difference.

Main duties of the job

As part of the Specialist Palliative Care Team, provide a high quality service, within Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust to all patients with specialist palliative care, end of life care needs & end of life discharge needs, irrespective of diagnosis.

To provide education, specialist advice, and support to professionals, patients and carers and working with others within the acute setting to provide strategic direction for end of life care. 

The post holder will be supported by experienced nurses to enable them to achieve core skills in agreed areas of specialist palliative care practice through exposure, training and education to agreed levels of competence, to enable autonomous practice within the specialty.

To provide a high quality specialist palliative care service to patients within the BHR Trust who have advanced life threatening illness.

To provide expert advice and education to other health care professionals in all aspects of palliative care.

To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team for the benefit of the patient.

To plan, with other members of specialist palliative care team to promote palliative care across all specialities.

To liaise with Primary Health Care Teams/Specialist Nurses both within the acute trust and relating community services, to ensure all patients receive appropriate palliative care support when discharged from hospital.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. 

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year. 

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

 We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.