Palliative Care Specialist Nurse

2 weeks ago


Bury, Borough of Bury, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Palliative Care Nurse Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Palliative Care Nurse to join our team at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will provide high-quality care to patients with life-threatening illnesses and their carers, enhancing their quality of life.

The Palliative Care Nurse will work collaboratively with the multi-professional team across primary, secondary care, and tertiary care to ensure the provision of a high standard of care. A core element of this role is to provide and support all members of the Primary Health Care Team and others as necessary.

Main Responsibilities
  • Manage a workload of patients with complex Palliative Care needs under the supervision of the specialist Palliative Care team.
  • Provide Palliative Care advice on symptom control, disease treatments, psychological and social issues to support a high standard of care to patients with complex needs.
  • Work collaboratively with members of the Primary Health Care Team to ensure that patients with Specialist Palliative Care needs and their carers are met, involving other members of the Palliative Care Multi-disciplinary Team as appropriate.
  • Attend and contribute to the Palliative Care weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting, maintaining effective communication across the spectrum of professional carers.
  • Use effective and empathic advanced communication skills to support patients and carers when they are dealing with uncertainty and coping with bad news.
  • Work with other members of the Palliative Care Team to develop and provide appropriate training and education for the multi-disciplinary team that improves the quality of Palliative Care provision.
  • Work with other members of the Palliative Care Team to implement initiatives such as NICE guidance that improve the quality of Palliative Care.
  • Ensure own professional development in line with Key Skills Framework.
  • Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional conduct.
Person Specification
  • Experience of working within palliative care.
  • Community Nursing experience.
  • NMC registration and CPD evidence.
  • Community palliative Care experience.
  • Post graduate training.
RegistrationDisclosure 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.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust



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