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Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist | North Bristol NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 29 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £50,056 per annum (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 August 2024 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS105NB |
| Company: | North Bristol NHS |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6430518/339-LMG4819 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a small team of palliative care clinical nurse specialists and palliative care consultants for a year to cover a period of maternity leave.
The post is band 6 or band 7 depending on previous experience, please contact either of the lead nurses to discuss this in advance of application or interview if you have any questions.
The role involves:
• facilitating the highest possible quality of care to palliative care patients and their families.
• providing specialist symptom control advice and support to patients, their relatives and carers and to professional colleagues in an acute hospital setting.
• facilitating rapid or complex discharges enabling where possible preferred place of care at end of life.
• supporting health care professionals who are involved in caring for palliative care patients in both hospital and community settings through role and education.
• To provide specialist advice to nursing, medical and paramedical staff within the provider unit regarding all aspects of evidence based palliative care and cancer related issues
• To offer support, advice and information to patients, their families and carers on all aspects of palliative care
• To regularly review the effectiveness of treatment plans and suggest changes as a result of new information or changes in a patients condition
• To act as a patients advocate where necessary
• To independently manage a caseload of patients, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual care needs in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
• To recognise and advise on changes in a patient’s condition that may affect care planning, discharge and treatment
• To achieve effective changes in practice to ensure a palliative care approach using diplomatic interaction and negotiation skills with all grades of staff.
• To contribute to effective discharge planning in order to ensure continuity of care between hospital and community
• To ensure resources are used effectively and liaise with relevant health and social care agencies when deficiencies in patient care arise
• To contribute to multidisciplinary meetings
• To refer patients to other specialist agencies as necessary
The Palliative Care Team is a hospital based multi-disciplinary team who receive approximately 1,600 patient referrals per year from all specialties across North Bristol NHS Trust.
We are a small team of clinical Nurse Specialist and Palliative Medicine Consultants with shared values and vision to maintain and develop excellent palliative and End of life care at NBT.
• To provide specialist advice to nursing, medical and paramedical staff within the provider unit regarding all aspects of evidence based palliative care and cancer related issues
• To offer support, advice and information to patients, their families and carers on all aspects of palliative care
• To regularly review the effectiveness of treatment plans and suggest changes as a result of new information or changes in a patients condition
• To act as a patients advocate where necessary
• To independently manage a caseload of patients, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual care needs in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
• To recognise and advise on changes in a patient’s condition that may affect care planning, discharge and treatment
• To achieve effective changes in practice to ensure a palliative care approach using diplomatic interaction and negotiation skills with all grades of staff.
• To contribute to effective discharge planning in order to ensure continuity of care between hospital and community
• To ensure resources are used effectively and liaise with relevant health and social care agencies when deficiencies in patient care arise
• To contribute to multidisciplinary meetings
• To refer patients to other specialist agencies as necessary
An informal visit or contact with the lead nurses in advance of interview recommended.
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Jul 2024