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We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Senior Staff Nurse to join our Hospice atHome team, based at Rowans Hospice in Purbrook.

Reporting tothe Hospice at Home Manager, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality specialist palliative care within patients' own homes. You will assess patients' needs, develop and implement individualised care plans, and provide expert clinical care with ahigh degree of autonomy. You will also support and supervise registered and unregistered colleagues within the nursing team, helping to ensure the highest standards of care.

Key
Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Triaging referrals, assessing patients, and developing personalised programmes of care within the community, ensuring ongoing risk assessment and management.
• Maintaining regular contact with patients and their families, reviewing and evaluating care plans while prioritising care according to clinical need.
• Delivering specialist treatments and clinical procedures using evidence-based practice, including effective symptom assessment and management.
• Assessing the needs of patients and carers and making timely referrals to appropriate internal and external professionals and services.
• Monitoring and evaluating symptom control and overall care management.
• Verifying expected deaths within the community, supporting relatives and carers, and following organisational procedures.
• Providing dignified last offices and ensuring the safe and timely transfer of the deceased in accordance with community procedures.
• Communicating effectively with the Hospice at Home Team Lead, Clinical Nurse Manager, Hospice Doctors, GPs, District Nurses and other healthcare professionals regarding patient care.
• Escalating operational or clinical concerns appropriately, including during out-of-hours periods.

About Us

At Rowans Hospice, we are a local charity providing free specialist palliative andend-of-life care and support to adults with life-limiting illnesses, as well astheir families, across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.

Since 1994, our services have been made possible through the ongoing generosity of our local community, including donations, legacies, fundraising activities, and income generated through our retail shops.

Key Areas of Responsibility / Key Accountabilities

• To triage/accept patients and carry out assessments of patients, develop programmes of care. Ensure that programmes are implemented throughout the 24-hour period within the patients home. Community setting demands continued risk mitigation by assessment
• To maintain continuing personal contact with patients and their relatives and contribute with the evaluation of programmes of care. Whilst prioritising & allocating care according to patient care service demands
• To carry out specific treatments and clinical procedures. To base clinical practice on current research-based evidence. Evaluating & implementing symptom management as appropriate
• To assess the needs of patients and carers requiring intervention from other professionals/therapies within and outside the hospice and refer appropriately seeking support from senior staff as appropriate
• Ongoing assessment of symptom control /care management
• To verify when a death has occurred, notifying relatives and carers as appropriate following the procedures carried out within the community
• To care for the deceased patient by administering last offices as appropriate and ensuring the safe and timely removal of the body from the home working within the procedures in place within the community
• To report to the Hospice at Home Team Lead/Co-ordinator / Senior Hospice Nurse/ Hospice Doctor/ GP or D/N any relevant information on the condition of specific patients, their care or treatment
• Out of hours to report to the on-call Hospice Doctor/OOH/DN any relevant information on the condition of specific patients, their care or treatment
• Out of hours report to the on call Clinical Nurse Manager as appropriate any immediate concerns related to the operations of the hospice at home service
• To report any feedback, concerns and complaints from…