Palliative Specialist Nurse – Thanet

Pilgrims Hospices; Thanet District; À distance; GBP 32 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NHS pension scheme

Professional development opportunities

Résumé du poste

Pilgrims Hospices invites applications for a Palliative Specialist Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team, delivering expert end-of-life care across east Kent.

The role covers autonomous practice with complex holistic assessments, symptom management, shared decision-making and advance care planning, and contributes to coordinating care across boundaries while modelling compassionate, inclusive and person-centred care.

Responsabilités

• Perform complex holistic assessments and lead symptom management planning.
• Coordinate care across organisational boundaries and contribute to governance and audit.
• Provide clinical leadership and education to the team and model compassionate, person-centred care.

Description du poste

Pilgrims Hospices are seeking well-motivated and forward thinking Palliative Specialist Nurses to join our multi-disciplinary team, in supporting patients across east Kent.

The Role

The Palliative Specialist Nurse (PSN) is an experienced specialist practitioner who provides expert, evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care to patients with life-limiting illness and those important to them.

Working autonomously and as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder undertakes complex holistic assessments, provides specialist symptom management advice, leads shared decision-making and advance care planning discussions, and contributes to the coordination of care across organisational boundaries.

The PSN provides clinical leadership, supports service development, quality improvement, education and workforce development activities, and acts as a role model in delivering compassionate, inclusive and person-centred care. The post holder will contribute to the continuous improvement of specialist palliative care services through evidence-based practice, governance, audit and collaborative partnership working.

Working pattern:

We are offering full time (37.5h) or part time (30h) positions on a permanent basis to work at our Thanet Hospice. You will be working a variable shift pattern between Monday and Sunday.

About us

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families - both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision

"Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life".

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision , we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE , which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Other benefits

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

• Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause