Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Quality & Standards Nurse Lead

Job Overview

We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity, for an experienced nurse to join our Specialist Palliative Care Team (SPCT) as Clinical Quality & Standards Nurse Lead. SPCT currently consists of Hospital and Community Macmillan Palliative Care Nurse Specialists, Consultants in Palliative Medicine, and Admin and Clerical Team. The SPCT provides specialist support, care and advice to patients and their families living with life limiting illness in North Wales, across primary and secondary care.

The post holder will support Head of Nursing and each of the Specialist Palliative Care Teams with overarching quality strategy, Datix, Complaints, Mortality reviews, quality and safety reporting and presenting in the absence of HoN/Team Leads at various meetings, supporting with departmental risk assessments and supporting the ongoing document library. The post holder will work closely with HoN/Team Leads to identify themes and support with developing Quality Improvement projects to improve care delivery and knowledge.

The postholder will be expected to travel across BCUHB to support the SPCT pan service as needed with a primary base in Wrexham Maelor Hospital. If you have the relevant experience and qualifications, alongside a strong desire to work within specialist palliative care, then we would love to hear from you. Informal enquiries and visits are strongly encouraged.

To support and develop innovative and clinical quality and standards in the North Wales Department for Specialist Palliative Care (NWDoSPC) through clearly defined and monitored benchmarks to help ensure the delivery of safe and prudent evidence based care across specialist palliative, end of life care and bereavement care services. To Identify opportunities to review and modernise services.

• Take the lead for the development of innovative clinical practice working with Head of Nursing, Clinical Director, Lead Nurses, third sector providers, service users, quality & safety groups and other key stakeholders to achieve this.
• Provide guidance and support to staff of all levels in relation to service improvement, compliance, audit, and patient quality and safety.
• Undertake delegated duties for Lead Nurses Specialist Palliative Care in their absence.
• Support lead nurses and provide first line management to Specialist Palliative Care Nurses aligned to clinical governance and quality standards.
• Provide education and training to all staff within NWDoSPC in relation to quality and standards for palliative, end of life and bereavement care.
• Support and encourage a culture of learning from experience amongst staff in order to embed sustained change.

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales .

Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework. Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

• Work closely with Head of Nursing, Clinical Director, Lead Nurses & specialist staff to develop innovative responses to…