Palliative and end of life care Nurse Specialist | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | TBC, LN5 7JH |
| Company: | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6180273/818-CYP214 |
Summary
Are you passionate about palliative and end of life care ? Are you looking for your next career opportunity? If so, this post might be for you.
An exciting job opportunity has become available to join the Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Team, working in the North East/ West Quadrant of Lincolnshire, covering the area of Market Rasen, Bardney, Wragby and supporting into Gainsborough. Specific area to be confirmed.
The post holder will be required to work as part of the team to provide specialist advice and support on symptom management to patients and their families, registered to a Lincolnshire GP, to ensure delivery of safe, person centred and effective palliative care.
The post holder will be required to undertake shifts on the Palliative Single Point of Access Line, to provide remote advice to patients and their families for urgent palliative care enquires. The line operates Monday-Friday 8am -8pm and weekends/ Bank Holidays 8am- 4pm currently.
Applicants must be NMC registered Nurses (adult) with experience in palliative and end of life care.
• You will work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner alongside the community Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialists,
• You will have a defined caseload which you will manage, with supervision from the band 7 Macmillan CNS.
• You will provide specialist palliative care advice and support to patients and those important to them, who have a palliative diagnosis with unstable needs.
• Provide specialist support and education on all aspects of palliative care to members of the multi-professional team in a variety of settings.
• Assess requirements for bereavement care and support for those carers and family members known to the service.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out morehttps://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
• Manages own workload, with support from band 7 clinicians
• Undertake shifts on Palliative Single Point Access Line
• Completing comprehensive assessments of patients’ care needs, planning, implementing and evaluating care delivery to patients with complex specialist palliative care needs.
• Providing specialist advice in the management of complex symptoms direct to patients with complex palliative care needs and their families/carers.
• Liaising with other organisations and stakeholders as part of wider Multi Disciplinary Team to ensure safe, effective delivery of patient care.
• Providing formal training to develop the palliative care skills of multi-disciplinary teams, including pre and post registration students.
• Demonstrates specialist professional practice
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024