Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Specialist Palliative Care Nurse for a 9-month secondment in the Norwich region. The post covers South Norfolk with base sites at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Norwich, and Dereham Community Hospital, delivering expert care in patients' homes and care facilities.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, manage a caseload, and be a Non-Medical Prescriber.

Qualifications

• You will manage your own caseload of patients within PLACE (South Norfolk).
• Provide clinical leadership and expert advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Band 7 Specialist Nurses are expected to act as Non-Medical Prescribers; training can be supported.

Responsibilities

• Manage palliative and end-of-life care in patients' homes.
• Work with community nursing, therapies teams, and GPs/Primary Care.
• Provide 24/7 palliative care advice line support and clinical guidance.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Palliative care experience

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse with the relevant skills and experience to work as a band 7 Specialist Palliative Care Nurse , based in our friendly, supportive team for a 9 month secondment.

The Community Specialist Palliative Care Nursing PLACE teams are based at locations across Norwich, North, South and West Norfolk providing expert clinical palliative and end of life care for patients in their own homes and care facilities.

The role will be covering South Norfolk Community and will be based from both Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Norwich, and Dereham community Hospital depending on work commitments that day.

The service also provides a 24/7 palliative care advice line, covered by the CSPCN team between 08:00-20:00, and supported by the specialist palliative care medical service overnight whilst held by another team. The advice line operates from the coordination centre at the new purpose-built Priscilla Bacon Lodge, in Colney, as well as from the base of your working base/Place when appropriate.

The teams work as part of the wider Specialist Palliative Care Service which includes a consultant-led specialist inpatient unit, a therapy team a Psychological family support team and a Day Therapies service.

We are proud to work closely with our Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity colleagues who support patients with enhanced care such as complementary therapy, bereavement support, music therapy and more.

Main duties of the job

You will have your own caseload of patients within PLACE (South Norfolk) and will work closely with colleagues in community nursing and therapies teams, Norwich Supported Care and GPs/Primary Care, to clinically manage palliative and end of life care patients safely in their own homes.

As a part of your role you will provide clinical leadership and support to our Associate Palliative Care Nurses and expert advice and psychological support to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals as part of a daily clinical team working on our 24/7 advice line.

Our Band 7 Specialist Nurses are also expected to act as Non-Medical Prescribers and we support team members to undertake a relevant post-registration training course if required.

The service offers a commitment to ongoing personal development and offers a supportive, friendly network of colleagues.

Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills.