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This is a fantastic opportunity to help lead and influence continuous improvement in palliative and end of life care across the communities we serve. We are looking to recruit 4 innovative and motivated senior nurses across the 4 localities of Birmingham ( North, East South & West) who are passionate about delivering high quality palliative and end of life care for our patients and their families.

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 Frailty 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

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• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address

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

he 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 Sommer Matthews, Interim Lead Nurse, Tel: 07738 121 250.