Nurse Consultant

Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent; Margate; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading palliative care provider is seeking a Nurse Consultant to join their senior clinical leadership team. The role involves leading service development across inpatient and community settings, influencing strategic decisions, and delivering exceptional holistic care to patients with life-limiting illnesses. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in specialist palliative care and advanced clinical qualifications. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and development.

Benefits

Access to advanced learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant Experience within a Specialist Palliative Care Environment.
• Experience of working within palliative care at an advanced practice level.
• Possesses a range of clinical knowledge, skills & information technology expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead service development across both in-patient and community settings.
• Deliver exceptional care to patients and families.
• Conduct skilled clinical interventions with patients with palliative care needs.

Skills

Advanced Communication Skills

Advanced Clinical Assessment Skills

Non-medical Prescribing

Leadership Qualifications

Education

MSc Palliative Care/Advanced Clinical Practice

Post-graduate Teaching Qualification

Job description

Shape the future of supportivePalliative Care in East Kent. Are you an experienced nurse with a passion forholistic, patient-centred care? Pilgrims Hospices is seeking Nurse Consultants to join our seniorclinical leadership team.

In this pivotal role,youll have the autonomy to lead service development across both in-patient andcommunity settings, influence strategic decisions, and deliver exceptional careto patients and families - making a lasting impact every day. Youll workalongside leading Consultants in Palliative Medicine, with access to advancedlearning and development opportunities.

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

Main duties of the job

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

To work as a Nurse Consultant using advanced clinical reasoning and diagnosticskills, prescribing, planning, and evaluating interventions for patients with complexpresentations.

To be an authoritative expert assessor/advisor on pain and symptommanagement , psychological /spiritual/ social /practical and ethical decisions atthe end of life and to work in partnership with a range of health professionals toimprove 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.

About us

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 including pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual support, and respite care. Their care is tailored to individual needs and can be delivered in hospice settings, in the community, or at home.

Pilgrims Hospices aims to help people live well in every moment, even at the end of life.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description on this website or visithttps://www.pilgrimshospices.org/about-us/work-with-us/current-vacancies for more info.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MSc Palliative Care/Advanced Clinical Practice
• Advanced Clinical Assessment Skills
• Non-medical Prescribing
• Advanced Communication Skills
• Post-graduate Teaching Qualification
• Leadership Qualification
• Experience as a Designated Medical Practitioner DMP for non-medical prescribers

Experience

• Significant Experience within a Specialist Palliative Care Environment
• Experience of working within palliative care at an advanced practice level
• Possesses range of clinical knowledge, skills & information technology expertise.
• Concerned to maintain & develop this knowledge.
• Displays sound professional judgement
• Exercises sound clinical risk management
• Sees patients within a holistic context

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.