Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Palliative Care
- Woking, Surrey
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead on complex symptom management, prescribing, and advance care planning
- Undertake autonomous assessments, diagnoses, and treatment planning
- Provide urgent clinical support in the community, including rapid response visits and crisis intervention
- Mentor junior staff and contribute to strategic service development, education, and governance
- Participate in a 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 on-call rota, supporting both inpatient and community services
- Support service innovation and contribute to audit, research, and policy development
- Work collaboratively with NHS partners and local healthcare providers to ensure continuity and integration of care.
- A supportive and caring team environment in a purpose-built hospice.
- Opportunities for professional development and leadership growth.
- The chance to be part of a forward-thinking organisation committed to enabling people to live life to the full and die with choice and dignity.
- Woking and Sam Beare Hospice is a charity working in close partnership with healthcare providers within the Northwest Surrey area. Our vision is to expand collaborative working across the region, reaching more communities and delivering high-quality, integrated palliative care.
- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
- Able to manage a varied caseload
- Able to work autonomously and within a
- MDT
- Able to monitor and manage workload
- Ability to work at pace, establish effective
- working relationships and develop strong
- team working
- Excellent time management and
- organisational skills
- To be able to anticipate disease
- progression
- Experience in service
- development
- Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
- Advanced Clinical Assessment
- Non Medical Prescriber qualification
- Minimum of four years post registration
- experience or significant palliative or
- oncology experience
- Experience of ongoing professional
- development
- Mentorship qualification ENB 998,
- Mentorship, Practice Assessor or Supervisor
- Advanced Communication or equivalent
- experience
- Palliative care qualification
- Masters Level Degree
- Management or Leadership
- certificate
- Teaching qualification
- Legal right to work in the UK
- Excellent interpersonal and
- communication skills
- Proven change management skills and
- the ability to support others within the
- change process.
- Ability to manage workload with
- competing deadlines
- Ability to work autonomously and also
- collaboratively as part of a team
- Self-motivated and confident approach
- Motivated, flexible, and adaptable
- individual
- Car driver - full driving licence
- Have access to a vehicle for community
- visits and ensure appropriate insurance in
- place
- Ability to work flexibly over a 7 day period
- Experience of nurse management
- Experience of working in a
- multidisciplinary team
- Knowledge of palliative care and updated
- clinical practice within palliative care
- Knowledge of national, regional, and local
- policy in relation to quality standards,
- targets, and improvements initiatives
- Experience in helping to develop clinical
- services
- Multi agency working
- Experience in research and audit
- Proven ability to manage a
- budget
- Experience in mentoring staff and
- students
- Excellent interpersonal and
- communication skills
- Ability to motivate and inspire others
- Balance of innovative/forward thinking,
- analytical skills with reflective practice
- Ability to form and maintain professional
- working relationships
- Calm, organised, flexible, approachable,
- enthusiastic, and punctual
- Good working knowledge and application
- of the MS Office packages
- Effective time management and
- organisation skills
- Able to manage difficult situations
- effectively
- IT Literate with good understanding of
- common packages
- Patient education and counselling skills
- Ability to listen and represent views
- accurately
- Assertive and effective decision maker
- Presentation skills (Written and verbal)
- Able to manage and steer junior clinicians
- Proven leadership and management skills
- Advanced IT skills
- Community experience
- Adept in data analysis
- Blood result interpretation
- Experience with EMIS
- Able to manage a varied caseload
- Able to work autonomously and within a
- MDT
- Able to monitor and manage workload
- Ability to work at pace, establish effective
- working relationships and develop strong
- team working
- Excellent time management and
- organisational skills
- To be able to anticipate disease
- progression
- Experience in service
- development
- Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
- Advanced Clinical Assessment
- Non Medical Prescriber qualification
- Minimum of four years post registration
- experience or significant palliative or
- oncology experience
- Experience of ongoing professional
- development
- Mentorship qualification ENB 998,
- Mentorship, Practice Assessor or Supervisor
- Advanced Communication or equivalent
- experience
- Palliative care qualification
- Masters Level Degree
- Management or Leadership
- certificate
- Teaching qualification
- Legal right to work in the UK
- Excellent interpersonal and
- communication skills
- Proven change management skills and
- the ability to support others within the
- change process.
- Ability to manage workload with
- competing deadlines
- Ability to work autonomously and also
- collaboratively as part of a team
- Self-motivated and confident approach
- Motivated, flexible, and adaptable
- individual
- Car driver - full driving licence
- Have access to a vehicle for community
- visits and ensure appropriate insurance in
- place
- Ability to work flexibly over a 7 day period
- Experience of nurse management
- Experience of working in a
- multidisciplinary team
- Knowledge of palliative care and updated
- clinical practice within palliative care
- Knowledge of national, regional, and local
- policy in relation to quality standards,
- targets, and improvements initiatives
- Experience in helping to develop clinical
- services
- Multi agency working
- Experience in research and audit
- Proven ability to manage a
- budget
- Experience in mentoring staff and
- students
- Excellent interpersonal and
- communication skills
- Ability to motivate and inspire others
- Balance of innovative/forward thinking,
- analytical skills with reflective practice
- Ability to form and maintain professional
- working relationships
- Calm, organised, flexible, approachable,
- enthusiastic, and punctual
- Good working knowledge and application
- of the MS Office packages
- Effective time management and
- organisation skills
- Able to manage difficult situations
- effectively
- IT Literate with good understanding of
- common packages
- Patient education and counselling skills
- Ability to listen and represent views
- accurately
- Assertive and effective decision maker
- Presentation skills (Written and verbal)
- Able to manage and steer junior clinicians
- Proven leadership and management skills
- Advanced IT skills
- Community experience
- Adept in data analysis
- Blood result interpretation
- Experience with EMIS