Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-COR-7499083C-RL4
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oxford Road Campus
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
End of Life and Palliative Care Lead Nurse
Band 8b
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and enthusiastic nurse with a passion and commitment to the provision of high quality, evidence based end of life and palliative care.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive Lead Nurse role within the Trust Corporate Patient Service Team to work in collaboration with the Head of Nursing for End of Life and Palliative Care and members of the Trust End of Life Oversight Committee to provide strategic oversight and direction in relation to the planning and delivery of end of life and palliative care across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.
Develop and maintain an environment and culture that improves health, safety and security.
Work in partnership with others to develop, take forward and evaluate direction, for a range of policies, service developments and strategies across palliative care services.
Coordinate, monitor and review the use of financial resources across End of Life and Palliative Care services.
Plan, coordinate and monitor the delivery of services and / or other projects related to End of Life and Palliative Care.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration
- First level nurse essential
Essential Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Degree or portfolio evidence
- Post basic qualification in management / leadership
Desirable criteria
- Master’s Degree or equivalent
- Advanced Communication Skills Training
- Education qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience within specialty at a senior level in nursing
- Evidence of leading and presenting audit locally, regionally, nationally in relation to the speciality
- Evidence of planning, delivering and evaluation programmes of relevant education
Desirable criteria
- Participation in research
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of extensive expert professional knowledge in area supplemented by specialist managerial / leadership training and CPD
- Evidence of leadership development
- Demonstrates highly developed specialist expertise and knowledge underpinned by theory acquired through CPD
- Detailed knowledge of the NHS agenda, with explicit understanding of current issues in nursing
- Demonstrable knowledge of relevant local, regional and national guidelines, frameworks and regulatory requirements
- Proven record of leading and effectively managing change across organisations
- Experience of using Healthcare Improvement models in practice
- Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting clinical governance requirements
- Evidence in developing and changing policy and practice
- Effective communicator
- Able to manage and defuse conflict
- Evidence of negotiation skills
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- Able to demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately
- Evidence of personal resilience techniques
- Demonstrates ability to make operational judgements involving highly complex situations
- Effective time management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paula Parr
- Job title
- End of Life and Palliative Care Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07929746464
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