Main area Palliative Care Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (12 hours shifts – days and nights) Job ref 381-CT-7614829-A
Site SWB NHS Trust Town West Bromwich Salary £39,959 – £48,117 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/09/2026 23:59
Here at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust we’re committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all parts of the community. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities whilst employing people to our organisation who meet our Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. With the opening of our new hospital, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, it’s the coming together of expertise from every corner of our organisation and a show of our commitment to provide better healthcare and create more jobs and so much more. We at the Trust actively encourage Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and disabled applicants, as well as members of the armed forces community and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce.
Job overview
At Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust we are very proud of our specialist palliative care and end of life care co-ordination Hub. The CQC awarded us excellent for our service in 2017. The team consists of Specialist Palliative Consultants, Specialist Palliative Care Nurses for the Acute and Community, End of Life Care Facilitators, Urgent Response Team, Day Hospice and Macmillan Occupational Therapists. The service operates 24/7 providing care to patients in hospital and community in Sandwell and West Birmingham.
Main duties of the job
We currently have a vacancy available for a Palliative Care Nurse. You must be a registered nurse with the appropriate qualifications and experience. The applicant for this post will be responsible for coordinating a caseload of patients and staff on a shift, to ensure that all calls from palliative and end of life care patients are responded to in a timely manner.
The post includes rotation between the Palliative Care Hub and Urgent Response Team and offers development opportunities. You will need to have a good clinical knowledge around end of life care, including symptom control and community services. The shift pattern involves rotation between day and nights, 12 hour shifts.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it.Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
If you would like more information about these posts please contact Louise Wright on 07866004682.
This is a really exciting time for professionals who want to join a team that will influence the development of services for patients at end of life.
Person specification
Qualifications
- 1st Level Registered General Nurse (adults)
- Qualification in palliative / end of life care or relevant experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Holds a teaching /assessing qualification
- Qualified Nurse Prescriber
- Project management
- Counselling
Experience
- Experience of working within a community team or acute ward.
- Experience of caring for patients at the end of life / palliative care needs
- Change management
- Experience of forging excellent relationships across professional boundaries
- Experience of working with professionals from health and other sectors including social care and the 3rd sector
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with an ability to adopt a number of ways to influence diverse parties
- Well motivated
- Ability to exercise initiative
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Able to work effectively with a wide range of people
- Ability to influence, negotiate, facilitate, motivate and support staff, clients and carers
- Aware of own limitations
- Demonstrate self-belief, self-awareness and ability to self-manage
- Be adaptable across all care settings 24/7
- Ability to lead others and demand the respect of colleagues
- Ability to deal with complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible
- Ability to give constructive feedback
- Ability to lead and implement successful change management
- Alert management if skill mix is incorrect
- Able to supervise and support other staff
- Demonstrate good leadership and team building skills
Emotional effort
- Able to work in a wide range of environments
- Able to deal with difficult situations e.g. aggression
- Identifies own coping strategies
- Able to access support with difficult situations
- Able to have difficult conversations
- Be able to deal with highly emotive situations with palliative care patients/families
- Advanced communications course or equivalent
The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing “better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond”.
To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:
- Better protect elective / planned care service delivery across the system by organising on a ‘hot and cold’ arrangement
- Consider the optimal use of resources through consolidation and specialisation, and
- Seek to reduce unwarranted variance, level up / standardise care through a ‘Networked Service Solution’ approach across the four sites
Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly acrossthefour partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department by joining ourGreen Impact (opens in a new tab) programme.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Please note-If this vacancy receives a high number of applications, it will close before the stated closing date. Please ensure that you have completed and submitted your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
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