Nurse Consultant

Shape the future of supportive

Palliative Care in East Kent.

Are you an experienced nurse with a passion for holistic, patient-centred care? Pilgrims Hospices are seeking Nurse Consultants to join our senior clinical leadership team.

In this pivotal role,you'll have the autonomy to lead service development across both in-patient and community settings, influence strategic decisions, and deliver exceptional careto patients and families - making a lasting impact every day. You'll work alongside leading Consultants in Palliative Medicine, with access to advanced learning and development opportunities.

Your expertise will help us deliver ourvision: a community where people with life-limiting illnesses are supported to live well in comfort and with dignity until their final moment sand support their loved ones at times most needed.

To be professionally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy in line with local/national policy and guidance and the NMC Code.

To work as a Nurse Consultant using advanced clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, prescribing, planning, and evaluating interventions for patients with complex presentations.

To be an authoritative expert assessor/advisor on pain and symptom management, psychological /spiritual/ social /practical and ethical decisions atthe end of life and to work in partnership with a range of health professionals to improve their skills in these areas.

Develop and conduct skilled clinical intervention with patients with palliative careneeds, assessing and addressing issues such as quality of life, futility, prognosis,withdrawing and withholding treatment and end of life decision making within anethical framework.

To undertake complex and sensitive holistic care assessments and plan,implement and evaluate care utilising advanced communication skills.

Please refer to attached job description for full scope of role.

Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent provides compassionate end-of-life care and support for individuals with life-limiting illnesses, as well as their families and carers.

Operating across three hospice sites in Canterbury, Ashford, and Thanet, the charity offers a range of services across our 3 in patient units, community services and our therapy centres. Following a multi-disciplinary, holistic needs assessment, care is tailored to individual needs and can be delivered in any setting.

Pilgrims Hospices aims to help people live well in every moment until they die.

• To be professionally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy in line with local/national policy and guidance and the NMC Code.
• To work as a Nurse Consultant using advanced clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, prescribing, planning, and evaluating interventions for patients with complex presentations.
• To be an authoritative expert assessor/advisor on pain and symptom management, psychological /spiritual/ social /practical and ethical decisions atthe end of life and to work in partnership with a range of health professionals to improve their skills in these areas.
• Develop and conduct skilled clinical intervention with patients with palliative careneeds, assessing and addressing issues such as quality of life, futility, prognosis,withdrawing and withholding treatment and end of life decision making within anethical framework.
• To undertake complex and sensitive holistic care assessments and plan,implement and evaluate care utilising advanced communication skills.
• To improve access to medication through the support and implementation of independent Nurse prescribing.
• Demonstrate negotiation and diplomacy skills and partnership working across themulti-disciplinary team
• To be in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, with regards to safe,effective, timely admissions and discharges of patients.
• To identify areas for improvement and development which will enhance the palliative care provision for patients and carers.
• To work with the other clinical leads within the hospice in undertaking service improvements as identified.
• To act as a…