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Link Nurse

3 months ago


Hexham, United Kingdom Tynedale Hospice at Home Full time

Job summary

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for something different?

If so, we have achallenge for you

Working across West Northumberland you will be responsible for workingcollaboratively with community services, NHS colleagues and other providers, toensure that palliative and end of life patients and their carers are able toaccess appropriate services.

We offer a generous salary and your expenses for travel willbe reimbursed at £ per mile.

You will be independently mobile and will be travellingwithin West Northumberland, working in GP practices, patients own homes andother community facilities.

Main duties of the job

You will help identify patients with palliative and end of life care needs who would benefit from care services, improve timely support for patients and families, work collaboratively with other health care professionals and improve communication within the community will act as an advocate for patients and carers, signposting to appropriate services as well as providing direct care

You will be working alongside our Hospice Registered Nurses, Hospice Support Workers, Pre and Post Bereavement Family Support Practitioners and Complementary Therapist to offer wraparound care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs and their carers.

About us

We are a forward thinking and innovative Hospice at Home service looking to recruit a committed and enthusiastic Registered Nurse to work as a Link Nurse to develop our Hospice services for patients and their carers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: LinkNurse (Registered Nurse)

Hours: 24 hours perweek. Flexibility offered in start and finishtimes and days of week

Salary: £23,899 plus travel costs of 45p per mile

JobPurpose: Toenable palliative and end of life patients to access services and support in atimely manner, including practical, emotional and clinical care

Responsibleto: Head of Care

Accountableto: ChiefExecutive Officer

OverallAim:

The role is to inform and enable patients who have palliative andend of life needs and are currently on the GP palliative care register andtheir carers to access appropriate services. The post holder will work incollaboration with a defined group of GP practices within West Northumberland todevelop and integrate services to provide timely access for patients withpalliative and end of life needs. This will promote earlier referral tocommunity and hospice services, which will reduce inappropriate admissions andlengthy stays in acute settings.

MainDuties and Responsibilities

Manage own caseload of patients workingclosely with community teams and Tynedale Hospice at Home Care co-ordinators tosupport consistency of care given. Attend and contribute to regular MDT meetingswithin GP practices and wider based meetings when appropriate to end of life. Identify and communicate with patients on GP palliativecare register who are not accessing care services who would benefit from input. Deliver education and training for staff indelivery of evidence-based end of life care. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursingcare provision to meet individual patient needs. Provide end of life and palliative care trainingand expertise within the defined group of GP practices in West Northumberland. Undertake nurse prescribing functions withinthe defined scope of practice. Audit effectiveness of end of life andpalliative care nursing interventions. Demonstrate continuous service improvement,through learning from patient feedback and incidents. Work collaboratively with the wider team topromote the earlier introduction of wraparound Hospice services. Promote and develop the use of wraparoundservices within current wellbeing hubs. Undertake the role of Practice Supervisor/Assessor to nursing and medical students. Contribute to THH strategy, developingservices to patients with palliative and end of life needs and their families,auditing hospice services to identify areas of development and improvement. Contribute to collection and reporting ofappropriate Key Performance Indicators for palliative and end of life care.

Key Contacts:

Internal Hospice Teams Care, Fundraising, Finance,Communications

External GP practices, community nursing teams, Macmillannurses, acute services

This is a new role. The description of the role is intended as a basicguide to the responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive and may besubject to review in consultation with the post holder as the role develops

Person Specification

Motivation and Resilience

Essential

Commitment to end of life care provision Highly motivated self-starter Demonstrates resilience when dealing with challenging situations

Skills and Competencies

Essential

Experience of community nursing and working within a multi- disciplinary team Experience of working without direct supervision Experience of delivering palliative and end of life care Communicates in a professional way (written and verbal)

Desirable

Experience undertaking audits Working in partnership with other care providers Nurse Prescriber or prepared to undertake relevant training

Other Factors

Essential

Independently mobile when travelling for work Able to work flexible hours

Practical Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

State Registration on Part 1 of NMC Register

Desirable

Palliative/ end of life qualification Involvement in leading project work Mentor qualification