True Colours Paediatric Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in South East London is a large teaching hospital and is at the forefront of academic and nursing excellence. We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible and enthusiastic individual to recruit into a band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist role for Paediatric Palliative Care.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist you will work closely with the multi professional team members to enhance service delivery. This is the first post of its kind at King’s, made possible by funding from the True Colours Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a new service which will create a cultural shift at King’s. The post holder will be instrumental in developing a coordinated approach to paediatric palliative care which will enhance the quality of life of both patients and their families. As an individual who is new to this role you will be well supported by your peers within the division and offered training and support to develop the skills required for this role. This role will enable you to gain extensive new skills in leadership and people management within the clinical environment.

Main duties of the job

As a Paediatric Clinical Care Nurse Specialist you will manage a caseload of patients with palliative care needs and participate in providing a service ensuring patients and their families are fully informed and supported.

This exciting opportunity requires a confident pioneering, dynamic children’s nurse to assist in service development and adhere to evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.

The successful post-holder will build on an existing relationship with the Evelina Paediatric Palliative Care team to link with other palliative care providers and primary care to facilitate the care of this group of people in the community.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.