Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Specialist Palliative Care and enhance Palliative care skills, experience, and expertise within the Specialist Palliative Care field.

• Deliver high quality palliative care to patients within the community setting and with the potential to rotate into the acute hospital setting.
• You will ideally have some knowledge of symptom control for patients with end-of-life malignant or non-malignant care needs.
• The job involves education and training of other health professionals regarding end-of-life and specialist palliative care across North West Anglia NHS Trust and the local community.
• You will support a seven-day specialist palliative care service in the Trust region and the local community, working weekends and bank holidays pro rata.
• Develop palliative care knowledge and experience across hospital and community provision in the region.
• Deliver high quality holistic palliative care interventions to patients with complex palliative care needs, their families and support care teams.
• Demonstrate nurse leadership, role-modeling Trust values while delivering patient-focused care.
• Deliver teaching formally and informally to patients, carers and colleagues.
• Engage with service improvement tools, including audit to support service innovation and audit.
• Develop skill and expertise and deliver plans of care delegated by the specialist MDT.
• Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

This second-term opportunity has potential to become permanent in the future, though this is not guaranteed.

For further details or informal visits, contact Jane Carpenter, Palliative and End of Life Lead Nurse, email: , telephone: