Senior Palliative Care CNS - Community Leadership

St Luke's Hospice (Basildon); Basildon; Presencial; GBP 37.000 - 51.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

St Luke's Hospice is seeking an experienced Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist in Basildon. The role covers autonomous practice, leadership in palliative care, and coordination of community services seven days a week.

You will manage complex caseloads, liaise with primary and secondary care teams, and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings to deliver high-quality, individualized care for patients and families.

Formación

• Be a first level registered nurse.
• Band 6/7 or above., or equivalent level.
• Ability to work alone in the community setting, managing complex, challenging and unpredictable situations.
• Be competent and confident to initiate and maintain specialist care to the dying person and their families/carers in their own home.
• Have expert current knowledge of pain and symptom management, usually gained through recent clinical practice at a senior level.
• Be computer literate sufficient to input patient records and work efficiently and effectively.
• Be able to effectively liaise with other professionals to uphold good specialist palliative care practice.
• Be a car driver, holding a current valid driving licence with business insurance.

Responsabilidades

• To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner and act as lead specialist and source of expertise in palliative care, providing strategic and clinical leadership to influence the development and delivery of local community palliative care services over a 7-day week.
• Use specialist skills and knowledge to manage patients on a caseload and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life-challenging illness.
• Link with Hospice staff primary healthcare teams, secondary care professionals, statutory and voluntary sectors, and promote fully integrated team working with partners and providers.
• To liaise with the referrer and undertake holistic assessment with the patient and plan the level of involvement required for each situation working collaboratively with all services to provide the highest quality of individualised palliative care to patients, families and carers within the resources available.
• To prioritise workload and plan and implement care in consultation with other health, social and voluntary care professionals, taking into account the physical, emotional, psychological social and spiritual needs of patients with a palliative diagnosis, cancer and other life challenging conditions and their families and carers. Evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs.
• To assist in the co-ordination of care for patients and families/carers as appropriate, for example, facilitating admission to the hospice or discharge from hospital to home and participating in multi-disciplinary case conferences.

Conocimientos

Registered Nurse

Palliative care

Community nursing

Autonomous practice

Educación

NMC registered nurse

Herramientas

Computer literacy

Descripción del empleo

St Luke's Hospice is seeking an experienced Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist in Basildon. The role covers autonomous practice, leadership in palliative care, and coordination of community services seven days a week.

You will manage complex caseloads, liaise with primary and secondary care teams, and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings to deliver high-quality, individualized care for patients and families.