Palliative Care Nurse
4 weeks ago
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse to join our In-Patient Unit at Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high-quality, patient-centered care to individuals with complex needs, working closely with patients, families, and carers to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide professional, palliative care to patients, ensuring the highest possible standards of care received by patients, their families, and carers.
- Lead, support, and encourage the sharing of knowledge and skills within the team.
- Work as part of a team, using a patient-centered approach and evidence-based practice to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care and coordinate care from admission to discharge.
- Administer medication and treatment as prescribed in accordance with the NMC's Standards of Medicine Management and Arthur Rank Hospice policies and guidelines.
- Conduct holistic nursing assessments on patients admitted to the In-Patient Unit and document an appropriate care plan based on the patient's needs.
- Use appropriate communication skills with patients, carers, and relatives, including those with language and cultural differences, facilitating informed consideration that enables choices to be made concerning treatment and future care.
- Act as a patient advocate and always act in the best interest of patients and carers.
- Liaise with the multi-disciplinary team regularly to ensure timely delivery of care and foster good working relationships.
- Initiate discharge planning, including the continuing healthcare process, to ensure smooth and timely transition between care settings.
- Ensure that patients and carers receive accurate, current information relevant to their needs.
- Support Consultant/Doctor ward rounds within the In-Patient Unit, ensuring the effective and timely dissemination and communication of patient information to relevant parties and the maintenance of contemporaneous nursing records following the ward round.
- Support the Matron and Ward Manager with changes and challenges that may arise.
- Ensure personal and team safety by adhering to hospice policy and highlighting any issues to the Ward Manager/Ward Sister.
- Participate in the hospice MDT, patient planning meetings, discharge planning, and bereavement meetings as necessary.
- Act as an advocate in the face of difficult negotiations and hostile reactions from other healthcare workers.
- Act as a clinical role model for staff and students, ensuring best evidence-based practice.
- Manage own time effectively in order to maintain high standards of nursing care and professional efficiency.
- In the absence of the Ward Manager or Ward Sister; allocate work with due regard to continuity, multi-professional actions plans, up-to-date assessment of patients' needs, and staff expertise.
- Work within the guidance of Arthur Rank Hospice's policies and standard operating procedures, best practice, established precedent, and understand what results are to be achieved.
- Help maintain a pleasant and safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
- Demonstrate a current knowledge of infection prevention and control practices through the delivery of clinical care and maintenance of a safe environment in accordance with infection prevention and control practices, policies.
- Verify when a death has occurred when deemed competent to do so. Notify families and carers as appropriate, following the Hospice policy.
- Be responsible for managing the process of receiving and responding to referrals to the In-Patient Unit.
- Administer drugs and assist with their ordering in accordance with the Nursing Midwifery Council standards for the administration of Medicines.
- Anticipate and respond to patient/family need while maintaining their independence, privacy, and dignity.
- Demonstrate and apply a knowledge of the options for achieving control of symptoms.
- Acting as a reflective practitioner, applying evidence-based practice and critical thinking to review all practices and processes of care.
- Admit patients into the In-Patient Unit, including familiarization into the unit and completion of admission assessment and documentation.
- Be responsible for triaging calls made to the unit, referring on to on-call colleagues and/or external agencies as required.
- Demonstrate competency for managing specific nursing tasks, cannulation, venepuncture, and IV antibiotics.
- Give information, support, and advice to carers following the death of a patient.
- Be responsible for the management of an allocated group of patients and staff on a shift basis.
- Contribute to the development of nursing activities and audit procedures while working within the clinical governance framework.
- Actively promote and support the safeguarding of vulnerable adults, young people, and children, observing and adhering to Arthur Rank Hospice Policy on Safeguarding.
- Contribute to a climate where team members openly discuss and challenge the standards of individual practice, and where decision-making can be ratified as a team.
- Assist in fostering an atmosphere of reflective practice, where critical incidents are a learning opportunity for all.
- Promote an atmosphere where reviewing and critical discussions of clinical problems can be aired by the multidisciplinary team.
- Identify and resolve specific managerial problems that may arise within a shift when in charge. Always report difficulties to the Ward Manager/Ward Sister/Matron.
About Us
Arthur Rank Hospice Charity has an outstanding reputation for excellence in palliative and end-of-life care. We support people in Cambridgeshire who are living with an advanced serious illness or other life-limiting condition and those who need end-of-life care. Our Outstanding services are provided free of charge to patients and their families. Our aim is to provide the highest quality care, helping them to make every moment count.
We are committed to inclusivity, respect, fairness, engagement, and equality of opportunity for our patients and their families, our staff and trustees, our volunteers, and our supporters. We value the strength that comes with difference and the positive contribution that diversity brings to our community. Candidates with a disability that meet the minimum criteria will be guaranteed an interview. We are also working to increase diversity throughout the organization and particularly welcome applications from BAME people who are currently under-represented.
Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults who draw on care and support and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
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