Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 27 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW4 0RN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0132-24-0032 |
Summary
Main Job Purpose To carry out comprehensive holistic needs assessments of patients, carers and families referred to Community Services to understand their immediate and ongoing priorities, concerns and goals in relation to their palliative and end of life care needs. Deliver expert evidence-based patient-centred advice, care and support working in close collaboration with other health and social care professionals. Utilise advanced communication skills to communicate information which may be distressing to individual patients, carers and families Provide expert advice, care and information to patients and their carers which is appropriate to their needs and in accordance with their priorities Receive and convey sometimes highly complex and highly sensitive information to relevant stakeholders (where due consent is provided), often including detailed clinical information which may be contentious requiring empathetic and reassurance skills to address barriers to acceptance Establish excellent internal working relationships with peers and colleagues Be resilient to manage individuals and groups (staff, patients, formal meetings and the public) who are emotionally distressed, angry, and/or in conflict with the information given to them Ensure the specific needs of the patient are addressed in a timely manner through liaison with colleagues within Community Services, wider-Trinity services, GPs/District Nurses and other external agencies Establish excellent relationships with clinical colleagues within the NHS and other institutions, providing relevant information about Trinity services in order to facilitate patient access to hospice services Regularly teach about the palliative care needs and management of patients with a life limiting illness at both internal and external training sessions Actively participate in local and national palliative and end of life care professional networks For more information, please find Job Description, Person specification and Recruitment pack attached.