Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; London Borough of Lambeth; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking a Band 7 Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse to join the North Bedfordshire Team. Based in Clapham, you will work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality community-based palliative care to patients and families.

The role offers cross-cover across other team bases to meet service needs and ensure continuity of care. You will lead in symptom management, complex decision-making, and advance care planning while upholding our

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist palliative care to community patients and families.
• Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team across bases to meet service needs and ensure continuity of care.

Job description

We are seeking a motivated, dynamic, and passionate Band 7 Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse to join our North Bedfordshire Team. The successful candidate will be primarily based in Clapham, working as part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality specialist palliative care to patients and their families within the community.

While the post is based in Clapham, there is an expectation that the post holder will provide cross-cover and work across other team bases as required to meet service needs and ensure continuity of care across Bedfordshire.

Main duties of the job

This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your knowledge, skills, and experience within a specialist palliative care setting. The team provides expert symptom management, psychological and emotional support, and advance care planning, helping patients to remain in their preferred place of care with the appropriate support and resources in place.

As a Band 7 Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to individuals with complex palliative and end-of-life care needs. The post offers the opportunity to enhance your leadership capabilities, strengthen your advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills, and work collaboratively within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team in a specialist area of practice.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.